Conservation of Energy and Organics Photovoltaic Research
In this activity, students will learn that energy changes from one form to another, and that the total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant.
Design a Rack to Test the Electrical Output of a Windmill
The goal of this ETP is to engage students in a hands-on engineering project. This ETP is composed of two design challenges. The students should be divided into groups of 4.
Give Me a Beak!
The recently adopted Next Generation Science Standards include both content and engineering standards. In order to encourage engineering thinking and design skills, a current adaptation lab was reworked to add an engineering component. Give Me a Beak!
Social Learning to Augment Professional Development
Social Learning has been found to be an effective professional development tool, even more efficient than formal in-class trainings that rely on handouts and presentations.
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Surfing the Waves - Building Resilience in Education Teacher Presentation
The purpose of this teacher staff development is to prepare teachers to work with a skill to manage daily stress levels, be more resilient or agile, and to pass this skill on to students to prepare them for the workforce.
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Using design thinking to solve challenges
The second part of our design thinking lesson will allow teachers the opportunity to critically analyze, synthesize, and build upon the ideas generated in the first part of the lesson.
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What Shape Is It?
In this lesson, students will learn to recognize and draw 2-dimensional shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of sides. The teacher will address certain misconceptions students might have about shape recognition.