Mini Grand Prix
Students will build a car using recyclable materials (or RAFT kits), trace the energy transformations happening in the process, and race them!
Mythbusters - EV Edition
In this lesson, students will predict and develop understandings of common myths related to electric vehicles through an interactive slide deck. They will create a social media post dispelling one of these myths.
Road Trip
Students will design their own summer road trip including the electric vehicle that they will drive, the distance between charges, charging locations, and overall cost.
Cubesat Mission 1: Data Collection from Above
Students will begin the lesson by watching an entry event video. The video engages students with the challenges a growing human population is causing on our planet and the need to further investigate human impacts on the environment.
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Cubesat Mission 2: Designing Cubesat and Pitching
Students will continue their planning and design of a CubeSat prototype and corresponding project proposal to The Aerospace Corporation. They previously selected a human impact to study and learned how CubeSats can be used to collect data on their selected human impact.
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Tardigrades
Students take on the role of a astrobiologist whose mission is to learn about extremophiles and the resiliency of tardigrades.
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A Universe Through Pictures
Students love cell phones and especially cell phone cameras. But today’s imaging technology provides incredible possibilities of observation. My fellowship at Lockheed Martin’s Optical Payload Center of Excellence provided the window to view an entirely unimagined universe of observation.
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Another Way to the Circumcenter
In teams of 3-4 members, Geometry Honors students will receive a problem on finding the circumcenter of a triangle and its algebraic solution. The solution involves a concept and theorem covered prior to this, but for which a graphical solution has not been covered.
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Carbon Passport
Carbon Passport is a small group project for high school life, earth, or environmental science classes. Students create a table top game in which players act as carbon atoms that cycle through the earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere in both biotic and abiotic forms.