NGSS Science & Engineering Practices
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INFO-H2 | Science & Engineering Practices
Compare, integrate and evaluate sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a scientific question or solve a problem.
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Bioinspired Design: Looking to Biology for Better Solutions
Students will identify a problem with an existing product and investigate biological functions to inspire a product redesign. Through independent research using AI bots and scholarly sources, students will gain a new perspective on STEM, biology, and the human interface between.
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Lesson 4
This unit is highly interdisciplinary, requiring students to draw from a wide variety of sources, their own creative mind maps, and discussions with classmates to solve a problem of their own choosing.
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5 lessons and 4 supporting media items.
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Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Data Streams: A crash course in data literacy using stream ecology
Level-up data literacy skills by practicing the "PPSTT" Framework for unlocking any graph's secrets. Students watch scientists model this approach & then try it on their own using multiple data types, including: the frequency of certain words in books, streamflow rates, and maps.
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Lesson 2
Students will analyze mutliple streamflow data sets, including graphs, tables, and photographs to determine a mystery city.
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3 lessons and 4 supporting media items.
Lesson 2
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Heard That Bird: A Pop Culture Intro to Birding by Ear
Students play an interactive gameshow alongside researchers to ID birds singing in video clips. They will learn how to use sound visualizations (spectrograms) and leave class excited to use the free Merlin app to ID birds in their neighborhood.
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Lesson 1
Students compare video clips to spectrogram representations of sounds to determine which species of bird is singing. This is an advanced analytical challenge.
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1 lesson and 2 supporting media items.
