Tag: Environmental Science
Water Water Everywhere and More
Friday, October 25th, 2024
Lesson Overview: Students work with your group to create a STEM based audio-visual presentation (MP4 video required) that clearly identifies the effects of stormwater runoff as they relate specifically to our campus, create a scaled map that identifies the major surface water flows (location and direction), drainage locations (gutter down spouts and storm drains) and […]
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.
Riparian Zone Replacement Design
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
The students will explore the causes and effects of erosion and how a healthy riparian zone can work. They will test water health based on the aquatic insects they find and compare their water health findings to how the waterway has been eroding. They will develop a testable replacement riparian zone model based on their research and develop a real-world implementation based upon their designs.
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.
Nature’s Origami
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Lesson focuses on teams of students using nature-derived inspiration to design a functioning solar panel that can charge a cell phone. Students study the need for renewable energy production and use knowledge of folding patterns in nature to create their own light-sensitive, folding solar panel.