design (noun) a plan; a blueprint; a drawing

• Sample Sentence: Your genes contain information about your own unique design.
• Turn and Talk: If you could create the design for a new park in your neighborhood, what would you include?

*design (verb) to plan; to outline or sketch

• Sample Sentence: For the Future Inventors competition, Jabari designed an unbreakable smartphone screen.
• Turn and Talk: Do you think it’s possible to design a perfect school? Why or why not?

feature (noun) a quality, trait, or characteristic

• Sample Sentence: Genes help determine many of your features, such as your eye color and height.
• Turn and Talk: What is one feature of a smartphone that you think is necessary or important?

*feature (verb) to include or display

• Sample Sentence: Jackson’s final project featured a live performance of Chief Joseph’s “Surrender” speech.
• Turn and Talk: Should reality television shows feature children? Why or why not?

impact (verb) to affect or influence

• Sample Sentence: Many people worry about how cloning will impact our lives.
• Turn and Talk: What is something you can do every morning to positively impact your day?

*impact (noun) effect; influence

• Sample Sentence: Hand-washing has had an enormous impact on the prevention of disease.
• Turn and Talk: Who has had a greater impact on your personality: your family or your friends?

potential (noun) possibility, future capability

• Sample Sentence: Some people believe that cloning has the potential to help people with serious illnesses.
• Turn and Talk: Do you think that computers have the potential to completely replace books?

*potential (adjective) possible in the future

• Sample Sentence: Companies try to attract potential customers with catchy slogans and bright colors.
• Turn and Talk: What do you think are some potential problems with cloning?

transfer (verb) to move from one place to another

• Sample Sentence: In reproductive cloning, scientists transfer some of an organism’s genes to a new egg.
• Turn and Talk: Why is it important to transfer photos from your phone to a computer or hard drive?