Where Power Comes From
Where Power Comes From: Hydropower, Clean Energy, and a Resilient Grid- Seminar Recording Nov 18th, 2025
Discover how today’s engineers and educators are powering the future!
Analyzing Big Hero 6: Real Tech in a Fictional World
Students explore how grief and ethics shape innovation in fiction, then connect fictional tech to real careers after frontloading film terms (semiconductors, AI, robotics, microbots) and watching Big Hero 6.
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Career Exploration Portfolio and Career Development Portfolio
Students will participate in an interactive, station-based career scavenger hunt and create a career portfolio that includes a multimedia presentation showcasing their results from a multiple intelligence survey, their career goals with corresponding technical or non-technical skills, and essenti
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Creating a Net Zero World: A Carbon Cycle Lesson
This lesson engages students in analyzing how urbanization and business decisions impact the carbon cycle. In small groups, students evaluate the placement of a company, consider tradeoffs, and apply Project Drawdown solutions to propose strategies for reducing environmental impact.
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Modeling Real World Systems: Mathematical Simulation of a Wastewater Purification Plant and Using Residuals to Estimate Model Accuracy
Students will use math and critical thinking to design a wastewater treatment plan that balances capacity, cost, and sustainability goals.
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Build Your Own Water Turbine
Students will build turbines from pre-determined supplies to demonstrate how water can be used to transfer energy and be used for power.
Teachers as active participants in the scientific community
This ETP provides high school science teachers with a structured framework to connect with the local STEM community, engage in content- or industry-specific training, and collaboratively translate new scientific practices into actionable classroom strategies.
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How's My Waterway
In this lesson, students learn to identify factors affecting aquatic ecosystem health by collecting and analyzing chemical and physical data from a digital source in preparation for testing actual local water samples.
Riverside Water Wars
Is there enough to go around? Exploring how Riverside’s water is divided between people, farms, and nature.