Engineering Design Process & Scientific Method

Making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence is called

• observing

• inferring

• predicting

• classifying

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The five steps of the engineering design process in order are

• plan, ask, imagine, improve, create

• plan, create, ask, imagine, improve

• create, ask, imagine , improve, plan

• ask, imagine, plan, create, improve

Your aunt Laura, the “candy connoisseur” and “part-time scientist” has innovated a new way to make candy that has different flavors. For example, she has discovered a way to make candy that taste like chocolate ice cream, hot dogs with ketchup, and peanut butter and jelly. She would like to share her new type of candy with the public by offering them free samples in stores. She hopes that by offering free samples, they will like them so much that they will go out and buy them by the jars and make her rich and famous. However, she needs someone to “invent” for her a candy dispenser. What statement best describes the problem?

• Aunt Laura has made several different flavors of candy.

• Your Aunt Laura needs someone to invent a candy dispenser for her.

• Aunt Laura wants to give the public free candy.

• She cannot invent things because she is only a "part-time" scientist.

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Which of the following best represents what will occur during step three of the Engineering Design Process as you develop the candy dispenser?

• List the criteria for the candy dispenser.

• Research different candy dispensers using the internet

• Draw various sketches of possible solutions of the candy dispenser.

• Develop the prototype for the candy dispenser.

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Which of the following best represents what will occur during step four of the Engineering Design Process as you develop the candy dispenser?

• List the criteria for the candy dispenser.

• Research different candy dispensers using the internet

• Draw various sketches of possible solutions of the candy dispenser

• Develop the prototype for the candy dispenser.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

What is meant by the word constraint?

• restriction

• options

• opportunities

• ideas

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Observations that deal with a number or amount are called

• manipulated observations

• quantitative observations

• qualitative observations

• operational observations

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know is called

• observng

• inferring

• predicting

• classifying

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question is called a(n)

• prediction

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers are called

• manipulated observations

• quantitative observations

• qualitative observations

• responding observations