About this Product

This is a self-guided science lesson designed to give students a "First Look" at scientific inquiry and engineering design. Skills are aligned with the NGSS science and engineering practices. This lesson is part of the First Look with Junior Scientist Jack Elkowitz Series, geared for students in grades 1 through 5.

Download two self-guided digital science lessons in this series for FREE:

Science Inquiry Lesson #1: What is a scientist?

Engineering Design Lesson #1: Engineering vs Science

This lesson includes:

• One reading passage with text-dependent comprehension questions

• Embedded video with a graphic organizer activity

• Supplemental videos for enrichment (hosted on SafeShare.TV)

• One higher-order thinking activity

• One reflection and review activity

First Look at Scientific Inquiry and Engineering Lesson Bundle

This digital science lesson is part of the First Look at Scientific Inquiry and Engineering Lesson Bundle. Lessons are priced $1.50 per lesson as part of this bundle. If you plan to purchase more than half of the lessons from this resource, it is more economical to purchase the entire unit rather than lessons "a la carte."

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Essential Question: How do you test a solution to a problem?

Learning Goal: Students will be able to discuss how developing a solution is an iterative process and requires testing, revising and retesting so to optimize the solution to a problem. Students will be able to reflect on the importance of failure point testing so to ensure a solution solves a problem in different conditions.

Important Considerations

• This self-guided lesson can be completed with minimal parent/teacher support

• Students work directly in a fillable slide to complete the lesson.

• This download includes a PPTX file designed for Microsoft PowerPoint

• This download includes a force-copy link for a file designed for Google Slides

• Internet access is required

• This resource is NOT editable.

• Directions and Answer Key included

How can this resource be used?

• Assign as independent work as part of a distance learning plan

• Introduce science and engineering practices in a homeschool curriculum

• Used by parents and caregivers to build students' science and engineering skills

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS

This resource introduces essential science and engineering practices to students in elementary school. These practices are essential to the three-dimensional design and implementation of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). NGSS guides a robust science education that introduces higher-order thinking skills to learners in the very first years of their education. Introducing these skills in primary grades is necessary to develop young students into strong, proficient and competent scientific thinkers and problem-solvers.

IMMERSIVE READER

This resource includes a version of the reading passage that can be read to a student with Immersive Reader. This read-only word document is accessed in a web browser. Immersive reader is a FREE Microsoft educational tool. You do not need a Microsoft account to access this tool in a web browser. Learn more about Immersive Reader HERE.

Immersive Reader can:

• Read the entire passage to a student

• Help pronounce individual words in a passage as a student reads

• Translate the entire passage or individual words in the passage for ESL students

• Change the font, text color and background color for students with visual impairments

To preview the benefits of immersive reader, access the OneDrive hosted reading passage from my FREE lesson HERE. Click ••• in the upper right corner. Select Immersive Reader. Alter the reading speed, language, font or other features of the text if needed.

MOTIVATION

The First Look with Junior Scientist Jack Elkowitz Series is inspired by my son Jack and his desire to learn how to learn about the universe. The series was created after homeschooling him during the Coronavirus pandemic.

SHARING FILES for Distance Learning, Homeschooling or At-Home Tutoring

Teachers can share all files in this download with students via email, password-protected websites (ex. Google Classrooms or Microsoft Teams) or secure file sharing platforms (ex. Google Drive, OneDrive or DropBox). You CAN share this digital resource with your students as long as the general public cannot access the files.

TERMS OF USE

• All rights reserved by Stephanie Elkowitz.

• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.

• Intended for classroom and personal use only.

• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.

• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.

• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).