This week we had a chance to look at the data from our design challenge and see how we could make our designs better. As a class my scientists observed that some strategies worked better than others. They also observed that they were able to gather information about how to knock the egg into the cup by watching others. Many of them agreed that it would have been much easier to be successful had they had more than on change to knock the egg into the cup. Then, we had a chance to re-examine what we noticed about balanced and unbalanced forces to see what we could have done differently to make our pom pom travel even farther. Part of being an engineer and a scientist is looking at data and making improvements to our prototypes or procedures. |