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information has been taken directly from the Accelerate
U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12
Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information
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Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and
Technology at Three Levels
Standard 1: Elementary
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and
engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers,
and develop solutions.
Engineering Design
1. Engineering design is an iterative process involving modeling
and optimization finding the best solution within given constraints
which is used to develop technological solutions to problems within
given constraints.
Students engage in the following steps in a design process:
- describe objects, imaginary or real,
that might be modeled or made differently and suggest ways in
which the objects can be changed, fixed, or improved.
- investigate prior solutions and ideas
from books, magazines, family, friends, neighbors, and community
members.
- generate ideas for possible solutions,
individually and through group activity; apply age-appropriate
mathematics and science skills; evaluate the ideas and determine
the best solution; and explain reasons for the choices.
- plan and build, under supervision,
a model of the solution using familiar materials, processes, and
hand tools.
- discuss how best to test the solution;
perform the test under teacher supervision; record and portray
results through numerical and graphic means; discuss orally why
things worked or didn't work; and summarize results in writing,
suggesting ways to make the solution better.
This is evident, for example, when students:
- read a story called Humpty's Big Day
wherein the readers visit the place where Humpty Dumpty had his
accident, and are asked to design and model a way to get to the
top of the wall and down again safely.
- generate, draw, and model ideas for
a space station that includes a pleasant living and working environment.
- design and model footwear that they
could use to walk on a cold, sandy surface.
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