Why use the Engineering Design Process?

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Why use the Engineering Design Process?

• Motivate Students to Learn Science
• Increase Depth of Science Learning
• Develop Essential Skills and connect to Common
  Core StateStandards

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Motivate Science Learning

• Students explore, create, design, innovate,
  imagine, test and evaluate
• Addressing human needs
• Hands-on engagement
• How things
• work and
• can be improved
• Connection to jobs and careers

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Increase Depth of Science Learning

• Connections to scientific inquiry
• Connections to the world
• Develops problem solving skills
• Engages hands and minds
• Confronts preconceptions about
• scientific phenomena

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Develop Essential Skills and Connect to Common
Core State Standards

• Apply mathematics
• Real-world problem solving
• Read and comprehend a variety of texts
• Write clearly and accurately
• Communicate the verified process and solution
• These skills translate to
• Employment skills
• Contributing to US competitiveness
• Life-long learning

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