H.M.H. 1.2.2. Comparing Engineering and Science Practices

Imagine you're part of a team with Aiden, Abigail, and Arjun, tasked with designing the next big thing in tech! What do you think is essential for creating amazing tools, devices, and systems?

• Creativity and imagination

• Careful planning, testing, and manufacturing

• Quick thinking and improvisation

• Random experimentation

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Imagine you're in a creative workshop with Evelyn, David, and Olivia. What does every innovative solution start with?

• A brainstorming session

• A design problem

• A prototype

• A finished product

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Imagine you're an engineer like Sophia or Michael, tackling a new project. What is the nature of the engineering design process?

• It has a fixed order of steps

• It is random and unstructured

• It has many steps but no fixed order

• It is completed in one step

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Imagine you're an engineer like Kai, Elijah, or Priya. What's your main mission?

• To create art

• To solve problems

• To write code

• To conduct experiments

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Imagine you're an engineer like Michael or Olivia. What does your design process have in common with?

• Artistic practices

• Scientific practices

• Historical practices

• Literary practices

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Imagine you're a designer like Hannah, Lily, or Priya. What is the main purpose of the design process?

• To conduct scientific experiments

• To define and solve problems or meet needs

• To create art

• To write reports

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Imagine you're an engineer like Luna or James, ready to tackle a new project. What's the first thing you should identify to kickstart solving the problem?

• Needs or desires

• Financial resources

• Marketing strategies

• Team members

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Grace and Luna have crafted a brilliant design solution that meets all the criteria. What should they do next?

• Discard it

• Compare it to other solutions

• Ignore it

• Sell it immediately

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Hey detectives! Zoe and Liam are on a mission to uncover the truth. Can you help them by choosing the correct definition of "investigations" as mentioned in the document?

• Informal questioning

• Casual observation

• Formal or systematic examination or research

• Random exploration

Hey Olivia, can you guess what (a)   is a key component of in science and engineering adventures?

• Theories

• Investigations

• Predictions

• Laws