Unstoppable Force

CTE: Engineering and Problem Solving

Grades 4-12

Various drill bits serve different purposes.

• Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.

• Define a simple design problem that can be solved through the development of an object, tool, process, or system and includes several criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

• Make observations and/or measurements to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon or test a design solution.

• Make predictions about what would happen if a variable changes.

• Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena, using logical reasoning, mathematics, and/or computation.

• Construct an explanation of observed relationships (e.g., the distribution of plants in the back yard).

• Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

• Identify the evidence that supports particular points in an explanation.

• Students routinely identify and test causal relationships and use these relationships to explain change. They understand events that occur together with regularity might or might not signify a cause and effect relationship.