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Engineering Design Cycle

 

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What do you remember about the engineering design cycle?

Scientists can also be engineers or inventors. Scientists use tools to help them learn about the world and find solutions to problems. They follow the engineering design cycle to help them. Do you remember the steps? Click on each picture to find out more about scientists, engineers, and inventors.

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Engineering design cycle: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve.

The engineering design cycle helps scientists and engineers think of new ideas, try them out, and make improvements.

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Early version of a telephone originally invented by Alexander Graham Bell.

Inventions are new ideas and things created to solve a problem. This is a picture of an early version of a telephone originally invented by Alexander Graham Bell.

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Scientist using a microscope.

Scientists use tools like thermometers, computers, and microscopes to help them learn more information.

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Who is an inventor?

An inventor is a person who creates something new.