Design the Experiment

Students explore both the scientific method and the engineering design process in a way that emphasizes applied skills.

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Science Curricular Competencies

Questioning and predicting: Students will practice formulating good questions and hypotheses.

Planning and conducting: Students will collaboratively design and conduct an experiment.

Processing and analyzing data and information: Students will consider the best way to analyze their results as appropriate to their grade level.

Evaluating: Students will be encouraged to reflect on the quality of their work and consider how they might improve future experiments. 

Applying and innovating: Students will consider the implications of their results and how they may solve current problems or inform future research.

Communicating: Students will be able to share their work in a variety of ways.

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ADST Curricular Competencies 

Understanding Context: Students will gather information through their own research, background knowledge or from in class lessons.

Defining: Students will be able to identify the main objective for the design of their invention and any constraints by discussing with teachers and peers. 

Ideating: Students can work by themselves or in groups in order to generate potential ideas and add to others’ ideas.

Prototyping: Students will be given the opportunity to build a prototype from their potential ideas.

Testing: Students will be able to test and present their prototype and gather feedback from teachers and peers. 

Making: After multiple rounds of testing and alterations, students will be able to construct the final product incorporating all of the planned changes.

Sharing: Students can use a variety of different methods and platforms to share their constructed equipment. 

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Applied Skills

• During the multistep process the students will have ample opportunity to learn how to use their materials, tools, and technologies in a safe manner. 

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