Summary
Hacker blankets Radopolis in magnetite confetti to put everyone to sleep, and the CyberSquad has to build a machine to clean it all up. Their first invention fails, then the next — and the real lesson is how engineers keep refining a design until it works.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Hacker's confetti puts Radopolis to sleep, and the team has to engineer a fix one try at a time.
- What problem were the kids trying to solve?
- Why did their first machine fail, and what did they change?
- When something you build doesn't work, what's a good next step?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: invention, design, redesign.
Try it: Name something you once built or drew that didn't work the first time, and describe what you changed.