NGSS Science & Engineering Practices

INV-H6 Science & Engineering Practices resources

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INV-H6 | Science & Engineering Practices

Manipulate variables and collect data about a complex model of a proposed process or system to identify failure points or improve performance relative to criteria for success or other variables.

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Unit

Animal Collective: How group behavior can produce surprising problems—and solutions!

Grades

9, 10, 11, 12

Students will draw their own social networks, ponder the meaning of complexity and begin to notice unexpected patterns that emerge around them, unnoticed. Through hands-on activities and digital experiments, students will discover how complexity research enriches our daily lives.

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Lesson 4

Students will run multiple trials using the "Swimming in the Dark" simulation. They will look at the impact of new data on the running average to understand relative impact of different variables.

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6 lessons and 3 supporting media items.

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Lesson 1

Draw My Social Network: A Student-Driven Reflection on Human Connections

Lesson 2

Emergence in the Game of Life

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What makes a video go viral? Emergence!

Lesson 3

Flock this Way

Lesson 4

Swimming in the Dark

Supporting apps

"Swimming in the Dark"

Lesson 5

Emergence in Human Social Networks

Supporting apps

"EchoSim" Echo Chamber Simulation

Lesson 6

The End (Reflection)

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Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions: How do we provide sustainable energy to communities?

Grades

9, 10, 11, 12

Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions unit banner

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 collect data from their experimental models, then compute secondary and tertiary quantities related to the models. Based on these data, they propose improvements to the models or experiment.

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3 lessons and 6 supporting media items.

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