Massachusetts: Science [2006]

  Technology/Engineering
(Grades K - PreK)

  2. Engineering Design
(Grades K - PreK)

Currrent Standard

 •   2.1 Identify and explain the steps of the engineering design process, i.e., identify the need or problem, research the problem, develop possible solutions, select the best possible solution(s), construct a prototype, test and evaluate, communicate the solution(s), and redesign.
(Grades 6 - 8)

  key
     Standard has one or more explicit curriculum alignments
     Standard has one or more CAT-based curriculum alignments
     Standard has one or more SAT-based curriculum alignments

Correlated Activities  Bombs Away!  Newspaper Tower  Balsa Towers  Designing a Medical Device to Extract Foreign Bodies from the Ear  Solving Energy Problems  Egg Drop  Broken Bones  Chair Design  Hydraulic Arm Challenge  Focus on Fabrics: Putting Materials to Good Use  Tower Investigation and the Egg  Package those Foods!  Win that Bid! Selling Your Power Solution  Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven  Hot Cans and Cold Cans  Learning Imaging Techniques!  Clay Boats  How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?  Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car  Building Roller Coasters  Forces and Graphing  Establish the Design Criteria  Does Weight Matter?  Spaghetti Bridge  Don't Crack Humpty  Journey to the Afterlife  Bubbling Plants  Amusement Park Ride: Ups and Downs in Design  Lights On!  Wet Pennies  Does Contact Area Matter?  Design an Egyptian Playground  The Puck Stops Here  Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?   Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection  No Valve in Vain  Save a Life, Clean Some Water!  You be the Radiologist!  AM I on the Radio?  Problem Solve Your School  Hot Problem Solving  Serial Dilution of a Fluorescent Compound  A Simple Solution for the Circus  Engineering Pop-Ups  Messin' with Mixtures  Breathing Cells  Engineer a Coin Sorter  Serial Dilution of Food Coloring Dye  Engineering in Reverse!  The Mummified Troll: Devising a Protection Plan  Fancy Feet  Viking Ship Design Challenge  Build Your Own Insect Trap  Cleaning the Air  Edible Rovers  Testing the Caverns - Optional  What's the Problem?  Household energy audit  Protecting Our City with Levees  Into Space!  Design Inspired by Nature  Live like an Animal  News Flash!  Clearing a Path to the Heart  Water Desalination Plant

Correlated Lessons  Move It!  Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!  Designing Medical Devices for the Ear  Problem Solving  Energy Projects  Generators: Three Mile Island vs. Hoover Dam  Using Heat from the Sun  Physics of Roller Coasters  What's Hot and What's Not?  From Sunlight to Electric Current  Food Packaging  Dirty Decomposers  Detecting Breast Cancer  Put Your Heart into Engineering  Imagine Life without Friction  Riding the Radio Waves  Improving West Corridor Design  Electrifying the World  Do Plants Eat?  Marine animal tracking  How Much Sugar is in Bubble Gum?  Can You Taste It?  Habitat Mapping  Factors Affecting Friction  How Many Drops?  Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures  Time for Design  The Strongest Pump of All  Mix It Up  Testing the Caverns (Optional)  What's the Problem  A Mini World  Clean It Up!