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Scientific and engineering practices

6.1(B)

Planning Investigations and Designing Solutions

Use scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive, comparative, and experimental investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems.

Part of The student, for at least 40% of instructional time, asks questions, identifies problems, and plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations to answer questions, explain phenomena, or design solutions using appropriate tools and models

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Intro

Investigating Like a Scientist

Scientists ask questions and gather evidence in organized ways. This lesson covers three kinds of investigations, plus how engineers use design steps to solve real problems, like a park bench that is too hot to sit on in Texas.

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