Tools
What is a beaker?
A container used to hold things.
What did Thomas Edison create?
A lightbulb.
What is a guess about what might happen in an investigation?
A prediction.
What does Celsius measure?
Temperature
Information or facts
Data
What does a graduated cylinder measure?
Volume.
Who is William Hunter Dammond?
An African American engineer who worked on bridges and trains.
Data gathered in an investigation
Evidence
What is the amount of something in an object?
Mass.
What do you do if anything is spilled or broken?
Tell your teacher.
What tool measures temperature?
A thermometer.
Who designed a practical car?
Henry Ford
The cat is gray.
What type of data is this?
Data from observations.
What does a gram measure?
Mass
Engineering starts by -
Identifying a problem.
What’s a spring scale?
Type of scale that shows how much something weighs
Who is Gustave Eiffel?
An engineer who designed the Eiffel Tower and parts of the Statue of Liberty.
If you mix blue and red pant together, you get purple. Which is the cause?
Mixing red and blue paint.
What metric unit measures length?
Meters.
What is a lab?
A special place where scientists do investigations.
What tool allows you to heat a substance?
A hot plate.
Who is Edith Clarke?
She was an engineer who worked with electricity.
How are models limited?
Models aren’t the same size. They aren’t perfect. Models are usually made from different materials than the real object.
What does a liter measure?
Volume
Investigations are-
done by scientists to answer questions.