1.1: : Agricultural and Environmental Systems and Resources
1.1.1: : Agricultural Systems
3.4.3-5.A: : Students who demonstrate understanding can: Analyze how living organisms, including humans, affect the environment in which they live, and how their environment affects them.
Fruit Production - Elementary School
As an agricultural scientist, students help a strawberry farmer who is having problems with low fruit production. Students learn about the factors involved in fruit production including plant nutrients, pollination and bees, and the interaction with the environment.
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2.2: : Design and Design Thinking in Technology and Engineering Education
2.2.4: : Design in Technology and Engineering Education
3.5.3-5.P: : Students who demonstrate understanding can: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.
Earthquake-Proof Homes
Design a house to withstand an earthquake and protect the people living inside. Select a location in San Francisco, then choose the design and materials for a foundation, frame, walls, and roof. Decide which extras to add to your home design. Test each house in an earthquake and assess the damages. Try to arrive at a house design that results in the least damage.
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Build a home to survive a flood or a hurricane and protect the people inside. Choose materials and a design for the foundation, frame, walls, and roof of the house. Add "extras" such as sand bags, storm shutters, and roof clips. Test your house in a flood or storm and see how well your design worked.
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3.5.3-5.U: : Students who demonstrate understanding can: Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.
Earthquake-Proof Homes
Design a house to withstand an earthquake and protect the people living inside. Select a location in San Francisco, then choose the design and materials for a foundation, frame, walls, and roof. Decide which extras to add to your home design. Test each house in an earthquake and assess the damages. Try to arrive at a house design that results in the least damage.
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Build a home to survive a flood or a hurricane and protect the people inside. Choose materials and a design for the foundation, frame, walls, and roof of the house. Add "extras" such as sand bags, storm shutters, and roof clips. Test your house in a flood or storm and see how well your design worked.
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2.3: : Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices
2.3.1: : Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering
3.5.3-5.W: : Students who demonstrate understanding can: Describe the properties of different materials.
Circuit Builder
Create circuits using batteries, light bulbs, switches, fuses, and a variety of materials. Examine series and parallel circuits, conductors and insulators, and the effects of battery voltage. Thousands of different circuits can be built with this Gizmo.
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Drag bar magnets and a variety of other objects onto a piece of paper. Click Play to release the objects to see if they are attracted together, repelled apart, or unaffected. You can also sprinkle iron filings over the magnets and other objects to view the magnetic field lines that are produced.
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Students assume the role of a scientist trying to solve a real world problem. They use scientific practices to collect and analyze data, and form and test a hypothesis as they solve the problems.
