Designer+plane+activity

**I.** Lesson Plans: Designer Planes **Engage (10 minutes):** What is the scientific method? Explain to the students that you recently discovered that you like to walk around barefooted and while walking around barefooted one day you noticed the ground was wet. However you had never felt that before, so you were not sure why the ground was wet, so you asked the question: Why is the ground wet? (write Ask a question on the board, followed by the question you asked) Then tell the class that you are a very curious person and you wanted to know why the grass was wet, what would I do next? This leads to a discussion about hypothesis. As a class create a hypothesis. Then ask the class how would I figure out if the hypothesis is true. This leads to design an experiment. Followed by testing the experiment and concluded with accepting or rejecting your hypothesis. Then explain to the class that today they are going to be learning in detail about the scientific method.

**Explore (45 to 50 minutes)**: Guiding Question: What are the steps to the scientific method and how do we identify variables in an experiment? Designer Plan Lab Key Vocabulary: hypothesis, dependent variable, independent variable

**II.** Lab Assignment  **III.** Quiz 