Scientific and engineering practices

7.1(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

Read the lesson

Intro

Investigating Like a Scientist

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to plan and carry out three kinds of science investigations and use engineering steps to design a solution to a problem. Think about wilting tomato plants in the Texas summer heat as your example.