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The Lemelson-MIT Program celebrates those inventors who have turned their ideas into accomplishments. We foster an enthusiasm for asking—and answering—the questions that change lives.
 
 
 

By our very nature, humans are a questioning and curious lot. We are interested in learning what makes things tick; we want to search for the reasons things happen—we simply want to make sense of our world. We know that this fascination with life begins early. As children grow, their questions continue and their curiosity about the world expands. Teachers and librarians need to help fuel this fire of knowledge and inquiry by sharing the best in literature with students.


 Read the section: Strand 4 Engineering from the Framework

 Massachusetts Science Framework.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  At each step of the design process, we use a divergent thinking process ( creative thinking) to create ideas / concepts.  We then use a convergent thinking process ( critical thinking) to pick the best solution that fits our needs.                                                   

We can combine the 8 steps to four major ones, show the iterative nature between steps with double sided arrows and add the thinking portion that goes on at al times in the middle to represent the design process.

 
 
 
  Prepared by  Bill Wolfson.  
Last Updated  09/15/2011