Summary
The series finale wraps up the engineering design thread with a forward-looking message: the problems students will face as adults — energy, climate, food, water, space — will require the science thinking they have been building all along.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
- What is the biggest science-related problem you want to help solve someday?
- What skill from this series — observation, testing, designing, thinking in systems — do you use most?
- Why does science say 'the end is only the beginning'? What does that mean for your curiosity?
- What question do you still have that this series didn't answer?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: engineer, scientist, curiosity, future, problem-solve, innovation.
Try it: Write a 'science letter to your future self': name one problem you want to help solve, one skill you are building to do it, and one question you still have. Seal it in an envelope to open at the end of the school year.