Benchmark 3A
The Nature of Technology: Technology and Science
Grades K-2, page 44

When trying to build something or to get something to work better, it usually helps to follow directions if there are any or to ask someone who has done it before for suggestions.
 

NSES Content Standard E 
Science and Technology: Abilities of technological design 
Grades K-4, page 137 
Implementing proposed solutions. Children should develop abilities to work individually and collaboratively and to use suitable tools, techniques, and quantitative measurements when appropriate. Students should demonstrate the ability to balance simple constraints in problem solving.