This awesome science video the students are asked to be part of the engineering process as they are help with an architectural design as a solution to a problem.
This awesome science video outlines how and why engineers ask themselves "what-if" questions as they identify variables in the solutions to the problems they are working on.
Hydropower generation is introduced to students as a common purpose and benefit of constructing dams. Through an introduction to kinetic and potential energy, students come to understand how a dam creates electricity. They also learn the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy.
This awesome science video goes over the process of defining success that engineers use when they are solving problems, part of the engineering process.
This awesome science video goes over the hows and whys that engineers consider when they are trying to define a problem, the first step in the engineering process.
This awesome science video explores how engineers identify and control variables as they are working on designing a solution to a problem.
This awesome science video outlines the engineering process - a series of steps engineers use to guide them as they solve problems. The steps include:
- define the problem
- do your research
- develop a possible solution
- design your solution
- build a prototype
- test it
- evaluate your solutions
This awesome science video explores how engineers run trials to identify failure points and then design ways to fix those failure points so that they come up with a viable solution to the problem they are working on.
This awesome science video explores how engineers develop solutions to the problems they are working on.
This awesome science video explores using the engineering process to build a city, while considering all the the variables.
This awesome science video goes over how and why engineers evaluate different solutions to come up with the best solution to the problem they are working on.
This awesome science video leads students through the process they could use to engineer the solution to a problem. There is a challenge to design a robot to help them solve the problem in the video.
This awesome science video explores how engineers discover solutions to their problems by identifying the parts of the solution that fail (failure points) and using that information to design better solutions that won't fail.
This awesome science video explores how engineers make a plan to test all of the variables for the problem they are seeking a solution to.
This awesome science video outlines how, as part of the engineering process, engineers identify and isolate variables and then run trials to test their solutions.
This awesome video introduces the field of engineering and how it has and continues to impact our everyday lives. It addresses how we are able to travel from place, communicate, cook, build things, search the internet and much more because engineers ask themselves how and why things work. They design and build things to solve problems.
Engineers ask themselves three very important questions while they are working:
1. What is the problem that needs to be solved?
2. Who has the problem that needs to be solved?
3. Why is this problem important to solve?
Each type of engineer is outlined with examples of how and why their work is changing our daily lives.
Students perform a macroinvertebrate survey to gauge the health of a local river. They collect water samples and count macroinvertebrates to learn how the health of a river's ecosystem can be determined by its river insect population.