MOD-H4 | Science & Engineering Practices
Develop and/or use multiple types of models to provide mechanistic accounts and/or predict phenomena, and move flexibly between model types based on merits and limitations.
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Animal Collective: How group behavior can produce surprising problems—and solutions!
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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Lessons: 3, 4
Students will use the movement of their own bodies as a way to represent and understand fish schooling. They will compare this experience to the digital simulation in Lesson 4, and reconcile these results with scientific findings.
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6 lessons and 3 supporting media items.
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Lesson 6
Electric Crystals: Exploring how crystal symmetry can power everyday life
Crystals aren't magic, but they are amazing! In this student-driven, lecture-free lesson, students will do card sorts, build hands-on models, solve engineering design puzzles, and more! The whole experience is connected through a beautifully crafted comic and supporting videos.
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Lessons: 2, 3
Students create molecular models of crystal unit cells, as well as geometric models of unit cells. They interpret how the two types of representations have different benefits and uses, and when each representation might be useful.
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4 lessons and 3 supporting media items.
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Lesson 1