"Focus" Questions

The following questions appear at the beginning of each segment in the television broadcast, The Case of the "Wright" Invention.

Segment 1

• Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?
• How is the invention process similar to the scientific method?
• How do the tree house detectives use the problem board for the invention process?

Segment 2

• What is brainstorming?
• What do the tree house detectives learn about evaluating ideas?
• How does Mr. Harrison help the tree house detectives?

Segment 3

• How do the NASA SCIence Files™ Kids Club experiments help the tree house detectives?
• Explain iterative.
• Why are models important?"

Segment 4

• What do the tree house detectives do when their tests fail?
• How do they redesign the model?
• How do inventors protect their inventions?