Tag: EDD
Temporary Sanctuary
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Lesson focuses on students learning about how sustainability, biomimicry, and architecture can work together to create innovative and feasible housing solutions for those in need. Students will need to collect information on the complications that people encounter when faced with not having shelter, where are some of the most resource deprived areas of the world, and what energy conservation technologies exist that can supplement the function of a shelter to provide adequate living conditions.
Go With the Flow
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Lesson focuses on students creating a working model of an ecological concept, the River Continuum Concept and demonstrating how human impacts change insect ecology. Students design a working model that shows river flow and compares and contrasts a natural ecosystem with a human-impacted one and how that relates to insect diversity in an area.
Clean Sweep
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Students will describe and illustrate
the feeding relationships of aquatic food webs. They will communicate
environmental issues of plastic pollution in marine habitats in a mass media
format. They will predict buoyancy of an object using mathematics and
predictive analysis. Working in a cross-curricular team they will design,
build, and test a device to collect plastic pollution from an aquatic habitat.
