HS-ESS3-2 | Performance Expectation
Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.
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Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions: How do we provide sustainable energy to communities?
Learn about the energy all around us through a hands-on power generating lab, a web app exploring resilient energy mixes, and stories about Māui’s innovation. In Te Reo Māori, the unit title translates to "It is through positive energy that we thrive." This unit connects to Māori leadership in self-sufficiency and sustainability as inspiration for the future of energy engineering!
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Lesson 2
In Lesson 2, students use a simulation that models power generation and consumption in a small community. Students can compare various energy mixes with respective economic or environemental benefits.
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3 lessons and 6 supporting media items.
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Pacific H2O: A Choose-Your-Own STEM Adventure
Students will gain a new appreciation for water as they reflect, mind-map, embody different STEM roles, and perform a choose-your-own adventure chemistry lab. Throughout, they will be exposed to Pacific languages, proverbs, and STEM solutions in this unique learning experience.
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In lesson 2, students gather scientific information about the quality of their water sample in a lab-based environment. Students take action by determining a water treatment solution but must consider socio-scientific issues such as monetary cost and environmental impact. Additionally, students grapple with how to allocate resources to benefit the community.
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4 lessons and 4 supporting media items.
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