Summary
A full Ready Jet Go! episode on PBS LearningMedia. Jet's rover Jet 2 needs new wheels to roll across Mars, so the kids brainstorm, test wheel after wheel, and keep trying until they get it right. A great model of the engineering-design loop.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
When the first wheels fail, Jet's crew shows that testing and trying again is how engineers succeed.
- Why did Jet 2 need new wheels?
- What did the kids do when a wheel did not work?
- Why is it okay for a first try to fail?
- Tell about a time you had to try something more than once.
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: rover, wheel, test, improve, engineer.
Try it: Pick a paper or block design and test it twice. Write one change you made the second time.