Student abilities should include oral, written, and pictorial communication of both the design process and product. The communication may take the form of show and tell, group discussions, short written reports, or pictures depending on the students' abilities and the design project. Scientists and engineers often work in teams with different individuals doing different things that contribute to the results. This understanding focuses primarily on teams working together, and secondarily, on the combination of scientist and engineer teams. Women and men of all ages, backgrounds, and groups, engage in the varieties of scientific and technologic work.
Tools help scientists make better observations, measurements, and equipment for investigations.
They help scientists see, measure, and do things that they could not otherwise see, measure and do. People have always had questions about their world. Science is one way of answering questions and explaining the natural world. Trying to determine the effects of solution helps people avoid some new problems. NSES Content Topic Science and technology in local challenges People continue inventing new ways of doing things, solving problems, and getting work done.