Engineering Design
An early, first model of a product built to test and evaluate a design concept.
What is a prototype?
An educated guess or testable prediction about what will happen during an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
The base unit for measuring distance or length in the metric system.
What is a meter?
The piece of personal protective equipment you must always wear to protect your eyes from chemical splashes and flying glass.
What are safety goggles?
The two pieces of learning tech you must make sure that you specifically grab your assigned number
What are Chromebooks and calculators
The specific limitations, boundaries, or requirements placed on a design, such as budget, safety rules, or material limits.
What are constraints?
The single factor that a scientist intentionally changes or tests during an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The amount of matter inside an object, which is measured in grams using a balance.
What is mass?
The very first thing you should do if a glass beaker breaks, a chemical spills, or any accident occurs during a lab.
What is tell/notify the teacher?
Two personal electronic items that are strictly banned from class and must stay locked in your locker.
What are cell phones and headphones
The repeating cycle of testing, analyzing, and refining a solution to continually make a design better
What is iteration or improve
The group or setup in an experiment that is kept completely normal and unchanged so you have something to compare your results to.
What is the control group?
The total amount of space something takes up
What is volume?
What you must do with long hair, loose clothing, or dangling jewelry so they don't get caught in moving physics equipment like pulleys, carts, or motors.
What is tie them back?
The only meal exception to the rule against eating food during class.
What is breakfast?
The group activity where team members quickly share as many wild and creative design ideas as possible without judging any of them.
What is brainstorming?
Scientific information collected using exact numbers or measurements, such as height, mass, or time.
What is quantitative data?
The method of finding the volume of an irregularly shaped object, like a rock, by dropping it into water and measuring how high the water rises.
What is water displacement?
The type of footwear strictly required on lab days to protect your feet from dropped objects or liquid spills.
What are closed-toe shoes?
The consequence you earn on your 4th tardy, which comes right after a parent call on your 3rd and warnings for your 1st and 2nd.
What is lunch detention?
The specific "must-have" features or goals for a design project, such as "must fly 10 feet"
What are criteria?
A logical explanation or conclusion made by combining direct observations with your prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
The curved surface formed by a liquid in a graduated cylinder, which you must read at eye level from the bottom edge.
What is a meniscus?
The essential safety step you must take before changing, touching, or reconnecting wires in an electrical circuit experiment to prevent short circuits or shocks.
What is turning off (or disconnecting) the power source?
The restricted room that is strictly off-limits to students
What is the teacher's office/prep room?