Success and Limits is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 science worksheet on defining a design problem with criteria and constraints, aligned to Common Core standard 3-5-ETS1-1. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 3 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Success and Limits
3-5-ETS1-1
NameDate
Sort each one into criterion or constraint.
1.Sort each one: Criterion: what success means or Constraint: what limits you?
Sort: You may not fix anything to the wall, You may spend no more than five pounds, It must catch at least eight clips, It must be visible in the dark
Criterion: what success meansConstraint: what limits you
2.Sort each one: Criterion: what success means or Constraint: what limits you?
Sort: It must fit through the classroom door, It must be safe for a five-year-old, It must keep the bins from blowing over, It must be readable from ten steps away
Criterion: what success meansConstraint: what limits you
3.Sort each one: Criterion: what success means or Constraint: what limits you?
Sort: It must stop soil washing onto the path, It must hold a 500 g weight, You may use only card and tape, You have one afternoon to build it
Criterion: what success meansConstraint: what limits you
LessonPrint · 3-5-ETS1-1 · Set 3 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Success and Limits
Set 3. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. It must be visible in the dark — Criterion: what success means 2. It must catch at least eight clips — Criterion: what success means 3. You may not fix anything to the wall — Constraint: what limits you 4. You may spend no more than five pounds — Constraint: what limits you
2.1. It must be readable from ten steps away — Criterion: what success means 2. It must be safe for a five-year-old — Constraint: what limits you 3. It must fit through the classroom door — Constraint: what limits you 4. It must keep the bins from blowing over — Criterion: what success means
3.1. It must hold a 500 g weight — Criterion: what success means 2. It must stop soil washing onto the path — Criterion: what success means 3. You have one afternoon to build it — Constraint: what limits you 4. You may use only card and tape — Constraint: what limits you
More practice for 3-5-ETS1-1
Define a design problem, with what counts as success and what limits you.
Teaching this next? Success and Limits is the 55-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.