6th grade STEM practice

Which of the following is considered engineering?

• A.

  Prescribing Medicine

• B.

  Improving a cell phone

• C.

  Reading a Book

• D.

  Flying a drone

Which of the following is considered doing science?

• A.

  Designing software

• B.

  Measuring square footage

• C.

  Performing Surgery

• D.

  Testing a hypothesis

In the statement "The model can weigh a maximum of 10 pounds and cost no more than $25" the $25 is an example of a ...

• A.

  Criteria

• B.

  Constraint

• C.

  Goal

• D.

  Detail

Students want to bring ice pops as a snack to school but ice pops melt with in an hour or two.  What step does this represent in the Engineering and Design process?

• A.

  Developing a solution

• B.

  Identifying a problem

• C.

  Creating a problem

Data is collected during...

• A.

  testing

• B.

  communication

• C.

  researching

• D.

  brainstorming

A prototype is ...

• A.

  a document that lists all the features included in a final product

• B.

  the description of a problem

• C.

  a version of the solution that can be tested to see if it can solve the problem

• D.

  none of the above

The way air moves around things is the definition of..

• A.

  Air flow

• B.

  Air movement

• C.

  Aerodynamics

• D.

  Aerospace

Which example, is an example of coding

• A.

  barcodes

• B.

  ip addresses

• C.

  phone numbers

• D.

  all of the above

Which is an example of a type of coding language?

• A.

  Java

• B.

  Python

• C.

  Scratch

• D.

  Block

• E.

  all of the above

The push that lifts an object to move up is called

• A.

  lift

• B.

  weight 

• C.

  thrust

• D.

  drag