InVenture Challenge – What Is Engineering? Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions: Designing a product or process to solve a What is the engineering process? problem has come naturally to humans How is the engineering process iterative? throughout history. Even when you do not know How is teamwork an advantage when solving a the steps of the engineering process, your mind problem? follows these steps in order to solve a problem. Estimated Standard for Supporting activity Assessment of standard Pacing instruction S4CS8. Students will Design and build a table out Informal observation of understand important Week 1 of newspaper tubes. problem-solving process, features of the process 1 Hour Discuss the process teams teamwork, and higher-order of scientific inquiry. used to solve the problems thinking. and compare them to The ELAGSE6SL1. Engage Engineering Design Process Creativity, Collaboration, Critical effectively in a range of model. Thinking, and Communication collaborative discussions in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. InVenture Challenge – What Is Empathy? Enduring Understandings: Essential Questions: Students will understand that inventors are What is empathy? keenly aware of the needs of others and focus How does an inventor use empathy to make life on those needs when improving a device OR better for its users? creating a new device to solve a problem, making life better and easier for its users. Estimated Standard for Supporting activity Assessment of standard Pacing instruction S4CS8. Students will Differentiated choices for Ticket out the door: understand important Week 2 students of different abilities. features of the process 1 Hour Students will consider Students will define empathy and of scientific inquiry. identify potential negative needs statements and problems of inventions. match the invention that was created due to
InVenture Challenge – What Is Engineering? Enduring Understandings: Designing a product or process to solve a problem has come naturally to humans throughout history. Even when you do not know the steps of the engineering process, your mind follows these steps in order to solve a problem. Essential Questions: What is the engineering process? How is the engineering process iterative? How is teamwork an advantage when solving a problem? Estimated Pacing Standard for instruction Supporting activity Assessment of standard Week 1 1 Hour S4CS8. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry. ELAGSE6SL1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. Design and build a table out of newspaper tubes. Discuss the process teams used to solve the problems and compare them to The Engineering Design Process model. Informal observation of problem-solving process, teamwork, and higher-order thinking. Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Communication InVenture Challenge – What Is Empathy? Enduring Understandings: Students will understand that inventors are keenly aware of the needs of others and focus on those needs when improving a device OR creating a new device to solve a problem, making life better and easier for its users. Essential Questions: What is empathy? How does an inventor use empathy to make life better for its users? Estimated Pacing Standard for instruction Supporting activity Assessment of standard Week 2 1 Hour S4CS8. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry. Differentiated choices for students of different abilities. Students will consider needs statements and match the invention that was created due to Ticket out the door: Students will define empathy and identify potential negative problems of inventions.
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