From Sand to Smartphones: Exploring Microchips
Students investigate how microchips are made from sand, how they function in our devices, and how they are produced in nearby facilities.
GIS Mapping of Water Infrastructure Systems
This lesson connects students to real-world engineering practices by exploring how water is collected, treated, stored, and distributed to homes and businesses.
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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.
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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Who works here? Who needs access? Women in STEM: Representation in the Field
Students will use and analyze an authentic informational article from Nextflex to discuss gender representation in STEM. Students will use related vocabulary and structures to explore and discuss their own fields of experience or interest.
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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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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.
Inspiring Water Sustainable Practices
In this interactive STEM challenge, students will work in teams to design and build their own water filtration systems using simple materials while exploring the real-world concepts of microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet light.
Riverside Water Wars
Is there enough to go around? Exploring how Riverside’s water is divided between people, farms, and nature.