Using evidence from informational texts and examples from companies such as MAAS Energy, Divert, Tracy Renewables, and Hilmar Cheese, students will brainstorm innovative ways to reduce food waste and conserve resources at school.
This lesson engages students in designing a sustainable city by analyzing carbon footprints, exploring solutions, and presenting proposals. Students work in groups to identify environmental challenges and create infographics or presentations to communicate their ideas.
Students will learn how biomimicry is used to create devices to assist in mitigating climate change, and will develop a model showing how smart manufacturing and biomimicry could create a sustainable solution.
Students will learn about elements on the periodic table, including ones instrumental to semiconductors, and how they are used to make electronic devices work.
Students will learn about climate change, and will consider how semiconductors play a role in developing energy resources that are renewable.
Personalized PG&E usage data is readily available for customers, but what can this data tell us?
It’s the 21st century! Show your students that they can be a graphic designer for the tech industry too! In this ETP, Students will develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity skills beyond what they imagined.
Nguyen Huynh and Darrell Steely worked with Guilio De Leo and Robin Elahi from Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station to develop a Planetary Health Based lesson that enabled students to make the important connection between the health of the ocean and the health of humans.
This Education Transfer Plan (ETP) will introduce biology students to evolution’s ability to create rich and complex structural and behavioral characteristics among a variety of species and how these special features of the natural world are inspiring engineers to design new materials and process