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Science
SPI 0807.T/E.1 Prototype Testing Essential
Learning Students will identify tools and
procedures needed to test a prototype.
Essential Question What are appropriate tools
and procedures used in testing a prototype?
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI
0807.T/E.2 (Eng. Design Process)
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SPI 0807.T/E.1 Identify the tools and procedures
needed to test the design features of a prototype
Steps 4 and 5 are the steps of the EDP where we
test our prototypes
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SPI 0807.T/E.1 (Prototype Testing)
Notes
Science

• Engineering Design Process-Prototype Testing
• The 4th step in the eng. design process is
  testing your prototype
• Often, the prototype does not work very well at
  first
• Testing a prototype can be dangerous (see picture
  below)
• By testing the prototype, the designers find
  problems to fix
• They fix the problems and then test it again.
  They repeat this over over. (This is step 5 of
  the eng design process.)

Here is a picture of Orville and Wilbur Wright
testing their prototype airplane
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SPI 0807.T/E.1 (Prototype Testing)
Notes
Science
SPI 0807.T/E.1 Identify the tools and procedures
needed to test the design features of a prototype

• The procedures and tools for testing a prototype
  are dependent
• upon the type of technology and the purpose for
  that technology.
• For Example You would not test a new cell phone
  the same way you would test a new jet airplane or
  a new football helmet.
• Discuss These Questions
• A) How would you test a prototype of a new type
  of eyeglasses?
• B) How would you test a prototype of a new type
  of headache
• medicine?
• C) How would you test a prototype of a new type
  of camping tent?

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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
Prototype Testing in the Movies -From the movie
"Batman Begins"
Story summary Billionaire Bruce Wayne's
parents are murdered by a criminal when he is
boy. So he vows to fight crime as a vigilante
when he grows to manhood. Yet he has no
superpowers, so he instead uses technology
devices to enable him to fulfill his mission.
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
Prototype Testing in the Movies -From the movie
"Batman Begins"
In this scene Mr. Fox is showing Mr. Wayne a
prototype of a special material called "memory
cloth." Bruce later uses this cloth to make a
cape that allows him to glide through the air
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
Does it come in black?
How do you like it?
Prototype Testing in the Movies -From the movie
"Batman Begins"
In this scene Mr. Fox is showing Mr. Wayne a
prototype of a special vehicle called "the
Tumbler." Bruce later paints it black and uses it
as his "Batmobile" vehicle.
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
Prototype Testing in the Movies -From the movie
"Batman Begins"
In this scene Alfred is testing the prototype of
Batman's mask by hitting it with a baseball bat.
It fails the test and breaks, so they must
modify it and re-test it.
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
In this scene Bruce is making and then testing
one of his bat-shaped throwing "stars"
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
Prototype Testing in the Movies -From the movie
"The Amazing Spiderman"
In this scene Peter Parker is making and testing
his "web shooters."
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SPI 0807.T.E.1 (Prototype Testing) SPI 0807.T/E.2
(Eng. Des. Process)
Science
Prototype Testing in the Movies -From the movie
"The Amazing Spiderman"
Watch Video Clip -See Peter Parker (A.K.A.
Spiderman) test his webshooter prototype in
his "lab" and "in the field." Link Spiderman
video Clip