Adaptations and Ecosystems
Students will be able to identify how animal adaptations enhance animal life and mold to ecosystems
Bioeconomy: Methane to Materials
Explore how methane can be transformed into eco-friendly materials!
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Digesters
Students will design and build a model of a mini biodigester as a hands-on project to help them apply their understanding of the purpose and function of the human digestive system.
Our Local Bioeconomy
Students will learn the fundamentals of the local Ag bioeconomy industry as a whole, and then giving them hands on participation in a PBL by allowing them to actually take our food waste in the cafeteria, separating it safely and efficiently, teaching their peers how to do it correctly over time
Food Waste and Climate Change
Students learn how anaerobic digesters transform food waste into renewable natural gas and fertilizer, then create a public service announcement explaining why this technology is an effective solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Heat Content in Nutshells
Students will be burning nut shells in order to calculate which releases the most heat energy, in a classic calorimetry experiment. Then, students will use their calculations to find how many nutshells it would take to power the average California home.
Properties of Liquids and Intermolecular Forces (IMFs)
This lesson is considered to be among one the beginning, introduction lessons in a high school Chemistry class. The purpose of this lesson to reinforce early foundational concepts in Chemistry such as reactants, products; physical and chemical properties, chemical and physical changes;
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Decoding the Sun
This project introduces high school students to programming concepts through writing a Python script that finds and counts sunspots in real images of the Sun.
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Introduction to Chip Design
This lesson plan is designed for one 100-minute period. It provides an introduction to the field of Chip Design/Semiconductor Technology and introduces students to the basics of digital logic design.
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