"Careful design, discovery, and practice help people solve problems—whether building smarter robots, identifying new animals, or working as a team in sports."
Ask the class before watching:
"Can you think of a time you had to remember where you had been (like in a maze, store, or game), and what strategy helped you not get lost?"
People who design and build things to solve problems.
Engineers might design a tiny robot that can explore a dark pipe and still find its way back out.
The ability to store and remember information.
If a robot has good memory, it can remember the turns it took and avoid going in circles.
A group of living things that are very similar and can have babies like them.
Scientists can discover a new species in the ocean and write down what makes it different from other animals.
A special contest that decides which team is the best after many games.
The team practiced hard all season so they could stay calm and focused during the championship.
Have students answer these questions after watching the episode.