Essential Questions: How can we engineer a product to make our lives easier? How do we attract others to a product we have designed?
Need to know questions: What are the different elements of the design process? How is the scientific method related to the EDP? How do inventors use the scientific method to test ideas? How do you design a good test of your invention? How can we use writing to attract others' attention? What are different methods companies use to market products?
Standards assessed in STEAM: Literacy Standard on report card (STEAM): Draws evidence from informational texts to construct arguments and explanations for a variety of audiences and purposes.
3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3-5-ETS1-3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
Standards ASSESSED in Literacy: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.3.A Choose words and phrases for effect. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.