Science and Technology/Engineering | Grade : 6
Discipline - Technology/Engineering
Core Idea - Engineering Design
[6.ETS.1.6] - Communicate a design solution to an intended user, including design features and limitations of the solution. Clarification Statement: Examples of intended users can include students, parents, teachers, manufacturing personnel, engineers, and customers.
[WCA.6-8.2] -
Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
[WCA.6-8.7] -
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
[SLCA.6-8.1] -
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on discipline-specific topics, texts, and issues, building on other's ideas and expressing their own clearly.
[6.ETS.1.5] -
Create visual representations of solutions to a design problem. Accurately interpret and apply scale and proportion to visual representations.*
Clarification Statements: Examples of visual representations can include sketches, scaled drawings, and orthographic projections. Examples of scale can include ¼" = 1'0" and 1 cm = 1 m.