Tag: Scientific Inquiry

Planting Roots

Thursday, October 24th, 2024


Lesson Overview:  Students will design and print a model root structure based off of native plants in your area to help slow down the erosion caused by the fire. Lesson Scenario:  A wildfire has just destroyed Cimarron Canyon, Hermit’s Peak, Calf Canyon, and Sugarite Canyon  and the monsoon rains are starting up. Due to the […]

Wing it

Thursday, October 24th, 2024


Lesson Overview:  Students integrate observations of biological processes and organisms into the design of a wind turbine blade to optimize its energy production. Lesson Scenario:  You and your team are new engineers at CS Wind, the wind turbine manufacturing company. They are looking to design new blades for the next generation of wind turbines. The […]

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.

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