Future City Pilot
1 What is a City?
Activator: What is a city? Write down your thoughts in a list, paragraph or diagram.
Mini Lesson:
Wrap-up: Write down one new idea from today's discussion
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2 The Future City Challenge
Activator: List at least three challenges that a city of the future, a city that exists 100 years in the future, might face?
Mini Lesson:
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up:
You will use a lot of recyclables to build your city. Think about what recyclables you could bring in from home for your future city? Start collecting materials this weekend!
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3 The Deliverables of Future City
Activator:
We came up with lots of challenges that people may have to face 100 years from now (pollution, clean water, lack of room, lack of food) Choose a challenge and list 2 or 3 possible solutions to the challenge.
Mini Lesson:
Student Engagement:
In pairs, answer the following:
Wrap-up:
Every group share one or two comments about the presentation.
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4 Engineers (2 class periods research and then create)
Activator: Make a list of some of the things that engineers might do in your city of the future.
Mini Lesson: Discussion and introduce website: www.DiscoverE.org
Student Engagement:
As a class, you will research all of the following types of engineers: aerospace, agricultural, bioengineering, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, materials science, mechanical, nuclear and petroleum. Everyone will be assigned a type of engineer to research. Create an 8 1/2 " x 11" information sheet about your engineering career. Make sure that the type of engineer is written at the top of your sheet. List at least 5 facts about your engineering field.
Your information sheet will be hung in the classroom to be used as a resource for the Future City Pilot program and the Future City Club members, so make it clear, neat and informative.
Wrap-up: Hang the information sheets around the room.
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5 Engineering Design Process
Activator: What process would an engineer go through if she was going to design a new type of paperclip?
Mini Lesson:
1. Watch What is the Design Process?
2. Look at and discuss an outline of the design process. (p. 14 in Handbook)
Student Engagement:
Use the design process to build a cargo bridge.
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cargo-bridge-2/index.html
Wrap-up:
Engineers don’t follow the engineering process in a step-by-step fashion; instead, they may begin at one step and move back and forth between steps a lot. Did you have to redesign your bridges at all?
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6. Tower Building
Activator: Did you have to use any parts of the Design Process to build your cargo bridges? Why did the Cargo Bridge game instructions suggest that you use triangles?
Mini Lesson: Introduce Tower Building Activity, Discuss the importance of team work, & Review the Design Process
Student Engagement: Tower Building
Wrap-up: Short Discussion
7. Project Management/LEGO Structures
Activator: Write: During the tower building activity, we worked as a team when we... (Fill in three)
Mini Lesson:
1. Marshmallow Challenge Video
2. Project Cycle
Student Engagement: LEGO Building
The Challenge:
Choose a project manager. They should make sure that
Wrap-up: Debrief
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8. The Future of Transportation
Activator: How did your project manager make sure everyone was involved in your LEGO building activity yesterday? If you were a project manager, how did it feel to be assigned this role? Write down your answers. I will collect them today.
Mini Lesson: Watch __________ and Discuss.
Student Engagement: Draw and/or describe your transportation ideas for the future. We will save all of your transportation ideas. Please do a good job, I will collect these after we share them with the class.
Wrap-Up: Share your ideas
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9. More about Cities
Objective: To learn more about transportation and zoning for your city.
Activator: Watch the New York City Transportation Commissioner talk about transforming streets.
Mini Lesson: Zoning: Industrial, Residential and Commercial
Student Engagement: Discussion. Zoning Activity
Wrap-up: Share
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10 Zoning & Infrastructure (2 Days)
Objective: To understand the importance of zoning.
Activator: We learned about industrial, residential, commercial and agricultural zones last week. Write down one or two things you would find in each zone.
Mini Lesson: Infrastructure Lesson & Creating a zoning map.
Student Engagement: Create a zoning map.Share
Wrap-up: Share your zoning maps
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11. Infrastructure & Energy
Activator:
Is infrastructure important for supplying electricity to people? Why or Why not?
Write down your ideas on your activator sheet. (Look at the Infrastructure sheet in your folder if you have questions about infrastructure.)
Mini Lesson:
Read My Light by Molly Bang?
Student Engagement
1. Discussion.
Where does all of the energy on Earth come from?
What are some ways we generate electricity?
Which forms of energy are renewable? nonrenewable?
Let's talk about light bulbs.
2. Complete Zoning Maps
Wrap-up: Share zoning maps. How many students does it take to change a light bulb? Answer
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11. Infrastructure and Energy Part 2
Activator:
We talked about renewable and non renewable energy yesterday when we read My Light, by Molly Bang. Write down at least one form of renewable energy, and one form of non-renewable energy on your activator sheet. Make sure to write down which one is renewable and which is non renewable.
Mini Lesson:Storing & Moving Energy Video
Watch National Grid Video
Complete Zoning Maps
Student Engagement:
Discussion:
What is supply and demand?
What time of day do you think energy demand is likely to be at its highest?
When do you think that energy demand is likely to be at its lowest?
Discuss demand curve (bathtub at night).
When is the best time to charge an electric vehicle?
How does National Grid use their pump storage stations to help level out the bathtub?
Wrap-up: You will share your zoning maps with the class tomorrow, so make sure they are finished.
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Electricity
Activator: What is the bathtub effect? Explain.
Mini Lesson: Light Bulb Video
Light bulb activity
Student Engagement: Sharing zoning maps.
Wrap-up: Feedback
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SimCity Tutorial
Activator: Have you ever used SimCity 4 before?
Mini Lesson: SimCity Basics and Starting the Tutorial
Student Engagement: Work in groups to play SimCity
Wrap-up: Save your progress. Tell me how your group did.
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Sim City: Start Your Own Virtual City
Activator: Write down one challenge that you conquered in SimCity
Mini Lesson: Discuss zoning, services, power and things that you need to start your city.
Student Engagement: Create and work on a new city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Improve Your Virtual City
Activator: Would you want to be a mayor of a real city? Why or why not?
Mini Lesson: Watch a short tutorial about SimCity.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Reflect on Your Virtual City
Activator: What sort of special buildings do you have? A Fire Station? Police Station? Medical Center? A school? Power Plant? Something Else? Choose one of your special buildings and explain the effect it has on your city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss budget, zoning, utilities, and safety services.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Final Full Day of Your Virtual City
Activator: What have you learned from SimCity that will help you design your own city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss models.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Taking a Look at the Project
Activator: What would be a good location for your city? Describe important features? Choose a specific location on Earth or elsewhere. Briefly explain why you made these choices.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Rubrics and Project Plan
Student Engagement: Brainstorm and record ideas for your city.
Wrap-up: Share your ideas
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Project Plan
Activator: Finish Looking over the rubrics. Highlight and take notes as necessary. Make note of any vocabulary words that you don't understand.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Project Plan
Student Engagement: Begin working on Project Plan
Wrap-up: What do you think of your plan so far?
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Real World Case Studies
Activator: What is good nutrition? What foods do you eat at home that are nutritional? Why is good nutrition important?
Mini Lesson:
Lufa Farms Video
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up: What are some innovative farming options that cities could adopt?
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Farming in Singapore
Objectives: To expand our knowledge of urban farming. To make some progress on our Project Plan.
Activator: List things necessary for a plant to grow.
Mini Lesson: Watch SkyGreens
Student Engagement: Discussion & Choosing Roles for Students
Wrap-up: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of SkyGreens? Could we do this in the US?
1 What is a City?
Activator: What is a city? Write down your thoughts in a list, paragraph or diagram.
Mini Lesson:
Wrap-up: Write down one new idea from today's discussion
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2 The Future City Challenge
Activator: List at least three challenges that a city of the future, a city that exists 100 years in the future, might face?
Mini Lesson:
- Look at Cities Then and Now
- This year's Future City Challenge
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up:
You will use a lot of recyclables to build your city. Think about what recyclables you could bring in from home for your future city? Start collecting materials this weekend!
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3 The Deliverables of Future City
Activator:
We came up with lots of challenges that people may have to face 100 years from now (pollution, clean water, lack of room, lack of food) Choose a challenge and list 2 or 3 possible solutions to the challenge.
Mini Lesson:
- Deliverables: Project Plan, City Description Essay, City Model, City Presentation (with questions and answers), Model and Presentation Budget Form
- Let's look at a student presentation from last year, the challenge was Tomorrow's Challenge: Tomorrow's Transport
Student Engagement:
In pairs, answer the following:
- What made the future city presentation engaging?
- What was futuristic about their city?
- How did the student's incorporate last year's transportation challenge into their city?
- What would you need to do to prepare for your own presentation?
Wrap-up:
Every group share one or two comments about the presentation.
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4 Engineers (2 class periods research and then create)
Activator: Make a list of some of the things that engineers might do in your city of the future.
Mini Lesson: Discussion and introduce website: www.DiscoverE.org
Student Engagement:
As a class, you will research all of the following types of engineers: aerospace, agricultural, bioengineering, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, materials science, mechanical, nuclear and petroleum. Everyone will be assigned a type of engineer to research. Create an 8 1/2 " x 11" information sheet about your engineering career. Make sure that the type of engineer is written at the top of your sheet. List at least 5 facts about your engineering field.
Your information sheet will be hung in the classroom to be used as a resource for the Future City Pilot program and the Future City Club members, so make it clear, neat and informative.
Wrap-up: Hang the information sheets around the room.
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5 Engineering Design Process
Activator: What process would an engineer go through if she was going to design a new type of paperclip?
Mini Lesson:
1. Watch What is the Design Process?
2. Look at and discuss an outline of the design process. (p. 14 in Handbook)
Student Engagement:
Use the design process to build a cargo bridge.
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cargo-bridge-2/index.html
Wrap-up:
Engineers don’t follow the engineering process in a step-by-step fashion; instead, they may begin at one step and move back and forth between steps a lot. Did you have to redesign your bridges at all?
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6. Tower Building
Activator: Did you have to use any parts of the Design Process to build your cargo bridges? Why did the Cargo Bridge game instructions suggest that you use triangles?
Mini Lesson: Introduce Tower Building Activity, Discuss the importance of team work, & Review the Design Process
- The goal is to build the tallest freestanding tower using only the materials provided.
- The entire faux marshmallow must be placed on top of the tower. You may not break apart or damage the "marshmallow".
- Teams may break up the materials they are given, but may not use any extra materials.
- You will have 20 minutes to work on your tower. No extra time will be allowed.
- Materials: 20 straws, two pipe cleaners, a yard of tape, a yellow foam "marshmallow" (scissors may be used as a tool, not a material)
Student Engagement: Tower Building
Wrap-up: Short Discussion
7. Project Management/LEGO Structures
Activator: Write: During the tower building activity, we worked as a team when we... (Fill in three)
Mini Lesson:
1. Marshmallow Challenge Video
2. Project Cycle
Student Engagement: LEGO Building
The Challenge:
- 12 minutes to build
- use all of your materials
- build a realistic structure
Choose a project manager. They should make sure that
- everyone is involved
- there is a plan before building
- everyone understands the goal
- the project is finished on time
Wrap-up: Debrief
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8. The Future of Transportation
Activator: How did your project manager make sure everyone was involved in your LEGO building activity yesterday? If you were a project manager, how did it feel to be assigned this role? Write down your answers. I will collect them today.
Mini Lesson: Watch __________ and Discuss.
Student Engagement: Draw and/or describe your transportation ideas for the future. We will save all of your transportation ideas. Please do a good job, I will collect these after we share them with the class.
Wrap-Up: Share your ideas
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9. More about Cities
Objective: To learn more about transportation and zoning for your city.
Activator: Watch the New York City Transportation Commissioner talk about transforming streets.
Mini Lesson: Zoning: Industrial, Residential and Commercial
Student Engagement: Discussion. Zoning Activity
Wrap-up: Share
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10 Zoning & Infrastructure (2 Days)
Objective: To understand the importance of zoning.
Activator: We learned about industrial, residential, commercial and agricultural zones last week. Write down one or two things you would find in each zone.
Mini Lesson: Infrastructure Lesson & Creating a zoning map.
Student Engagement: Create a zoning map.Share
Wrap-up: Share your zoning maps
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11. Infrastructure & Energy
Activator:
Is infrastructure important for supplying electricity to people? Why or Why not?
Write down your ideas on your activator sheet. (Look at the Infrastructure sheet in your folder if you have questions about infrastructure.)
Mini Lesson:
Read My Light by Molly Bang?
Student Engagement
1. Discussion.
Where does all of the energy on Earth come from?
What are some ways we generate electricity?
Which forms of energy are renewable? nonrenewable?
Let's talk about light bulbs.
2. Complete Zoning Maps
Wrap-up: Share zoning maps. How many students does it take to change a light bulb? Answer
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11. Infrastructure and Energy Part 2
Activator:
We talked about renewable and non renewable energy yesterday when we read My Light, by Molly Bang. Write down at least one form of renewable energy, and one form of non-renewable energy on your activator sheet. Make sure to write down which one is renewable and which is non renewable.
Mini Lesson:Storing & Moving Energy Video
Watch National Grid Video
Complete Zoning Maps
Student Engagement:
Discussion:
What is supply and demand?
What time of day do you think energy demand is likely to be at its highest?
When do you think that energy demand is likely to be at its lowest?
Discuss demand curve (bathtub at night).
When is the best time to charge an electric vehicle?
How does National Grid use their pump storage stations to help level out the bathtub?
Wrap-up: You will share your zoning maps with the class tomorrow, so make sure they are finished.
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Electricity
Activator: What is the bathtub effect? Explain.
Mini Lesson: Light Bulb Video
Light bulb activity
Student Engagement: Sharing zoning maps.
Wrap-up: Feedback
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SimCity Tutorial
Activator: Have you ever used SimCity 4 before?
Mini Lesson: SimCity Basics and Starting the Tutorial
Student Engagement: Work in groups to play SimCity
Wrap-up: Save your progress. Tell me how your group did.
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Sim City: Start Your Own Virtual City
Activator: Write down one challenge that you conquered in SimCity
Mini Lesson: Discuss zoning, services, power and things that you need to start your city.
Student Engagement: Create and work on a new city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Improve Your Virtual City
Activator: Would you want to be a mayor of a real city? Why or why not?
Mini Lesson: Watch a short tutorial about SimCity.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Reflect on Your Virtual City
Activator: What sort of special buildings do you have? A Fire Station? Police Station? Medical Center? A school? Power Plant? Something Else? Choose one of your special buildings and explain the effect it has on your city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss budget, zoning, utilities, and safety services.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Final Full Day of Your Virtual City
Activator: What have you learned from SimCity that will help you design your own city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss models.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Taking a Look at the Project
Activator: What would be a good location for your city? Describe important features? Choose a specific location on Earth or elsewhere. Briefly explain why you made these choices.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Rubrics and Project Plan
Student Engagement: Brainstorm and record ideas for your city.
Wrap-up: Share your ideas
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Project Plan
Activator: Finish Looking over the rubrics. Highlight and take notes as necessary. Make note of any vocabulary words that you don't understand.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Project Plan
Student Engagement: Begin working on Project Plan
Wrap-up: What do you think of your plan so far?
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Real World Case Studies
Activator: What is good nutrition? What foods do you eat at home that are nutritional? Why is good nutrition important?
Mini Lesson:
Lufa Farms Video
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up: What are some innovative farming options that cities could adopt?
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Farming in Singapore
Objectives: To expand our knowledge of urban farming. To make some progress on our Project Plan.
Activator: List things necessary for a plant to grow.
Mini Lesson: Watch SkyGreens
Student Engagement: Discussion & Choosing Roles for Students
Wrap-up: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of SkyGreens? Could we do this in the US?
Future City Pilot
1 What is a City?
Activator: What is a city? Write down your thoughts in a list, paragraph or diagram.
Mini Lesson: Video
Wrap-up: Write down one new idea from today's discussion
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2 The Future City Challenge
Activator: List at least three challenges that a city of the future, a city that exists 100 years in the future, might face?
Mini Lesson:
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up:
You will use a lot of recyclables to build your city. Think about what recyclables you could bring in from home for your future city? Start collecting materials this weekend!
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3 The Deliverables of Future City
Activator:
We came up with lots of challenges that people may have to face 100 years from now (pollution, clean water, lack of room, lack of food) Choose a challenge and list 2 or 3 possible solutions to the challenge.
Mini Lesson:
Student Engagement:
In pairs, answer the following:
Wrap-up:
Every group share one or two comments about the presentation.
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4 Engineers (2 class periods research and then create)
Activator: Make a list of some of the things that engineers might do in your city of the future.
Mini Lesson: Discussion and introduce website: www.DiscoverE.org
Student Engagement:
As a class, you will research all of the following types of engineers: aerospace, agricultural, bioengineering, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, materials science, mechanical, nuclear and petroleum. Everyone will be assigned a type of engineer to research. Create an 8 1/2 " x 11" information sheet about your engineering career. Make sure that the type of engineer is written at the top of your sheet. List at least 5 facts about your engineering field.
Your information sheet will be hung in the classroom to be used as a resource for the Future City Pilot program and the Future City Club members, so make it clear, neat and informative.
Wrap-up: Hang the information sheets around the room.
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5 Engineering Design Process
Activator: What process would an engineer go through if she was going to design a new type of paperclip?
Mini Lesson:
1. Watch What is the Design Process?
2. Look at and discuss an outline of the design process. (p. 14 in Handbook)
Student Engagement:
Use the design process to build a cargo bridge.
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cargo-bridge-2/index.html
Wrap-up:
Engineers don’t follow the engineering process in a step-by-step fashion; instead, they may begin at one step and move back and forth between steps a lot. Did you have to redesign your bridges at all?
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6. Tower Building
Activator: Did you have to use any parts of the Design Process to build your cargo bridges? Why did the Cargo Bridge game instructions suggest that you use triangles?
Mini Lesson: Introduce Tower Building Activity, Discuss the importance of team work, & Review the Design Process
Student Engagement: Tower Building
Wrap-up: Short Discussion
7. Project Management/LEGO Structures
Activator: Write: During the tower building activity, we worked as a team when we... (Fill in three)
Mini Lesson:
1. Marshmallow Challenge Video
2. Project Cycle
Student Engagement: LEGO Building
The Challenge:
Choose a project manager. They should make sure that
Wrap-up: Debrief
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8. The Future of Transportation
Activator: How did your project manager make sure everyone was involved in your LEGO building activity yesterday? If you were a project manager, how did it feel to be assigned this role? Write down your answers. I will collect them today.
Mini Lesson: Watch Video and Discuss.
Student Engagement: Draw and/or describe your transportation ideas for the future. We will save all of your transportation ideas. Please do a good job, I will collect these after we share them with the class.
Wrap-Up: Share your ideas
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9. More about Cities
Objective: To learn more about transportation and zoning for your city.
Activator: Watch the New York City Transportation Commissioner talk about transforming streets.
Mini Lesson: Zoning: Industrial, Residential and Commercial
Student Engagement: Discussion. Zoning Activity
Wrap-up: Share
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10 Zoning & Infrastructure (2 Days)
Objective: To understand the importance of zoning.
Activator: We learned about industrial, residential, commercial and agricultural zones last week. Write down one or two things you would find in each zone.
Mini Lesson: Infrastructure Lesson & Creating a zoning map.
Student Engagement: Create a zoning map.Share
Wrap-up: Share your zoning maps
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11. Infrastructure & Energy
Activator:
Is infrastructure important for supplying electricity to people? Why or Why not?
Write down your ideas on your activator sheet. (Look at the Infrastructure sheet in your folder if you have questions about infrastructure.)
Mini Lesson:
Read My Light by Molly Bang?
Student Engagement
1. Discussion.
Where does all of the energy on Earth come from?
What are some ways we generate electricity?
Which forms of energy are renewable? nonrenewable?
Let's talk about light bulbs.
2. Complete Zoning Maps
Wrap-up: Share zoning maps. How many students does it take to change a light bulb? Answer
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11. Infrastructure and Energy Part 2
Activator:
We talked about renewable and non renewable energy yesterday when we read My Light, by Molly Bang. Write down at least one form of renewable energy, and one form of non-renewable energy on your activator sheet. Make sure to write down which one is renewable and which is non renewable.
Mini Lesson:Storing & Moving Energy Video
Watch National Grid Video
Complete Zoning Maps
Student Engagement:
Discussion:
What is supply and demand?
What time of day do you think energy demand is likely to be at its highest?
When do you think that energy demand is likely to be at its lowest?
Discuss demand curve (bathtub at night).
When is the best time to charge an electric vehicle?
How does National Grid use their pump storage stations to help level out the bathtub?
Wrap-up: You will share your zoning maps with the class tomorrow, so make sure they are finished.
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Electricity
Activator: What is the bathtub effect? Explain.
Mini Lesson: Light Bulb Video
Light bulb activity
Student Engagement: Sharing zoning maps.
Wrap-up: Feedback
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SimCity Tutorial
Activator: Have you ever used SimCity 4 before?
Mini Lesson: SimCity Basics and Starting the Tutorial
Student Engagement: Work in groups to play SimCity
Wrap-up: Save your progress. Tell me how your group did.
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Sim City: Start Your Own Virtual City
Activator: Write down one challenge that you conquered in SimCity
Mini Lesson: Discuss zoning, services, power and things that you need to start your city.
Student Engagement: Create and work on a new city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Improve Your Virtual City
Activator: Would you want to be a mayor of a real city? Why or why not?
Mini Lesson: Watch a short tutorial about SimCity.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Reflect on Your Virtual City
Activator: What sort of special buildings do you have? A Fire Station? Police Station? Medical Center? A school? Power Plant? Something Else? Choose one of your special buildings and explain the effect it has on your city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss budget, zoning, utilities, and safety services.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Final Full Day of Your Virtual City
Activator: What have you learned from SimCity that will help you design your own city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss models.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Taking a Look at the Project
Activator: What would be a good location for your city? Describe important features? Choose a specific location on Earth or elsewhere. Briefly explain why you made these choices.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Rubrics and Project Plan
Student Engagement: Brainstorm and record ideas for your city.
Wrap-up: Share your ideas
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Project Plan
Activator: Finish Looking over the rubrics. Highlight and take notes as necessary. Make note of any vocabulary words that you don't understand.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Project Plan
Student Engagement: Begin working on Project Plan
Wrap-up: What do you think of your plan so far?
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Real World Case Studies
Activator: What is good nutrition? What foods do you eat at home that are nutritional? Why is good nutrition important?
Mini Lesson:
Lufa Farms Video
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up: What are some innovative farming options that cities could adopt?
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Farming in Singapore
Objectives: To expand our knowledge of urban farming. To make some progress on our Project Plan.
Activator: List things necessary for a plant to grow.
Mini Lesson: Watch SkyGreens
Student Engagement: Discussion & Choosing Roles for Students
Wrap-up: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of SkyGreens? Could we do this in the US?
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Making Big Decisions
Activator: List one goal that you have for your city. List one goal that you have for the process of designing your city.
Mini Lesson: Introduce the questions for discussion (p. 43 in Pilot Handbook)
Student Engagement: Discussion and some research
Wrap-up: Share your ideas/research with your team
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Location, Location, Location
Activator: Write down your Future City role/job. Now think of one or two problems that you need to solve for your city; for example, if you are the electrical engineer ask, "What are the best energy sources for my city?" If you are the agricultural engineer ask, "What is the best way to farm in your city?" (You may use a computer to help you with this activator, if you like.) The project manager should ask, "What is a good location for our city?"
Mini Lesson:
Description of writing assignment.
You will write no more than 500 words. You must choose a problem that matches your Future City role. Explain why your solution is a good solution. Support your ideas with research. Try to make your ideas new and futuristic, but they must be plausible. Feel free to discuss your ideas with your team members. Please site 3 sources (as per the Future City research sheets.) Later, your ideas with be incorporated into the team's city description. Rough draft due Friday. Your writing assignment will be due on October 17th. (Rubric to follow.)
Student Engagement: Share ideas (from activator) and discuss possible solutions with your team mates. Write down your ideas.
Wrap-up: Share
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MORE RESEARCH
Activator: Write down one or two ideas to share from yesterday's brainstorming and research sessions.
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SCALE
Activator: If the scale factor was 1 foot = 1 inch, approximately how tall would a model of you be?
Mini Lesson: Scale Intro
Student Engagement: Scale activities. You will work in teams of 3.
Wrap-up: Why is scale important in your model?
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And It Begins
Activator: What do you need to do before you can write your paragraph? What do you need to do before you can build the model?
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Activator: Read the STEM Future City Writing Assignment Rubric
Mini Lesson: Go over the rubric
Student Engagement: Research/write/plan/build
Wrap-up: Clean-up
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Completing the Project
Activator: What still needs to be completed in the model? What still needs to be completed in the written City Description?
Mini Lesson: Discussion/ Presenting in Boston/ Sharing Projects at BPMS Health and Wellness Fair
Student Engagement: Complete work on model and city description. Complete reflections on project plan.
Wrap-up: Clean up.
1 What is a City?
Activator: What is a city? Write down your thoughts in a list, paragraph or diagram.
Mini Lesson: Video
Wrap-up: Write down one new idea from today's discussion
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2 The Future City Challenge
Activator: List at least three challenges that a city of the future, a city that exists 100 years in the future, might face?
Mini Lesson:
- Look at Cities Then and Now
- This year's Future City Challenge
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up:
You will use a lot of recyclables to build your city. Think about what recyclables you could bring in from home for your future city? Start collecting materials this weekend!
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3 The Deliverables of Future City
Activator:
We came up with lots of challenges that people may have to face 100 years from now (pollution, clean water, lack of room, lack of food) Choose a challenge and list 2 or 3 possible solutions to the challenge.
Mini Lesson:
- Deliverables: Project Plan, City Description Essay, City Model, City Presentation (with questions and answers), Model and Presentation Budget Form
- Let's look at a student presentation from last year, the challenge was Tomorrow's Challenge: Tomorrow's Transport
Student Engagement:
In pairs, answer the following:
- What made the future city presentation engaging?
- What was futuristic about their city?
- How did the student's incorporate last year's transportation challenge into their city?
- What would you need to do to prepare for your own presentation?
Wrap-up:
Every group share one or two comments about the presentation.
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4 Engineers (2 class periods research and then create)
Activator: Make a list of some of the things that engineers might do in your city of the future.
Mini Lesson: Discussion and introduce website: www.DiscoverE.org
Student Engagement:
As a class, you will research all of the following types of engineers: aerospace, agricultural, bioengineering, biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, industrial, manufacturing, materials science, mechanical, nuclear and petroleum. Everyone will be assigned a type of engineer to research. Create an 8 1/2 " x 11" information sheet about your engineering career. Make sure that the type of engineer is written at the top of your sheet. List at least 5 facts about your engineering field.
Your information sheet will be hung in the classroom to be used as a resource for the Future City Pilot program and the Future City Club members, so make it clear, neat and informative.
Wrap-up: Hang the information sheets around the room.
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5 Engineering Design Process
Activator: What process would an engineer go through if she was going to design a new type of paperclip?
Mini Lesson:
1. Watch What is the Design Process?
2. Look at and discuss an outline of the design process. (p. 14 in Handbook)
Student Engagement:
Use the design process to build a cargo bridge.
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cargo-bridge-2/index.html
Wrap-up:
Engineers don’t follow the engineering process in a step-by-step fashion; instead, they may begin at one step and move back and forth between steps a lot. Did you have to redesign your bridges at all?
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6. Tower Building
Activator: Did you have to use any parts of the Design Process to build your cargo bridges? Why did the Cargo Bridge game instructions suggest that you use triangles?
Mini Lesson: Introduce Tower Building Activity, Discuss the importance of team work, & Review the Design Process
- The goal is to build the tallest freestanding tower using only the materials provided.
- The entire faux marshmallow must be placed on top of the tower. You may not break apart or damage the "marshmallow".
- Teams may break up the materials they are given, but may not use any extra materials.
- You will have 20 minutes to work on your tower. No extra time will be allowed.
- Materials: 20 straws, two pipe cleaners, a yard of tape, a yellow foam "marshmallow" (scissors may be used as a tool, not a material)
Student Engagement: Tower Building
Wrap-up: Short Discussion
7. Project Management/LEGO Structures
Activator: Write: During the tower building activity, we worked as a team when we... (Fill in three)
Mini Lesson:
1. Marshmallow Challenge Video
2. Project Cycle
Student Engagement: LEGO Building
The Challenge:
- 12 minutes to build
- use all of your materials
- build a realistic structure
Choose a project manager. They should make sure that
- everyone is involved
- there is a plan before building
- everyone understands the goal
- the project is finished on time
Wrap-up: Debrief
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8. The Future of Transportation
Activator: How did your project manager make sure everyone was involved in your LEGO building activity yesterday? If you were a project manager, how did it feel to be assigned this role? Write down your answers. I will collect them today.
Mini Lesson: Watch Video and Discuss.
Student Engagement: Draw and/or describe your transportation ideas for the future. We will save all of your transportation ideas. Please do a good job, I will collect these after we share them with the class.
Wrap-Up: Share your ideas
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9. More about Cities
Objective: To learn more about transportation and zoning for your city.
Activator: Watch the New York City Transportation Commissioner talk about transforming streets.
Mini Lesson: Zoning: Industrial, Residential and Commercial
Student Engagement: Discussion. Zoning Activity
Wrap-up: Share
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10 Zoning & Infrastructure (2 Days)
Objective: To understand the importance of zoning.
Activator: We learned about industrial, residential, commercial and agricultural zones last week. Write down one or two things you would find in each zone.
Mini Lesson: Infrastructure Lesson & Creating a zoning map.
Student Engagement: Create a zoning map.Share
Wrap-up: Share your zoning maps
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11. Infrastructure & Energy
Activator:
Is infrastructure important for supplying electricity to people? Why or Why not?
Write down your ideas on your activator sheet. (Look at the Infrastructure sheet in your folder if you have questions about infrastructure.)
Mini Lesson:
Read My Light by Molly Bang?
Student Engagement
1. Discussion.
Where does all of the energy on Earth come from?
What are some ways we generate electricity?
Which forms of energy are renewable? nonrenewable?
Let's talk about light bulbs.
2. Complete Zoning Maps
Wrap-up: Share zoning maps. How many students does it take to change a light bulb? Answer
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11. Infrastructure and Energy Part 2
Activator:
We talked about renewable and non renewable energy yesterday when we read My Light, by Molly Bang. Write down at least one form of renewable energy, and one form of non-renewable energy on your activator sheet. Make sure to write down which one is renewable and which is non renewable.
Mini Lesson:Storing & Moving Energy Video
Watch National Grid Video
Complete Zoning Maps
Student Engagement:
Discussion:
What is supply and demand?
What time of day do you think energy demand is likely to be at its highest?
When do you think that energy demand is likely to be at its lowest?
Discuss demand curve (bathtub at night).
When is the best time to charge an electric vehicle?
How does National Grid use their pump storage stations to help level out the bathtub?
Wrap-up: You will share your zoning maps with the class tomorrow, so make sure they are finished.
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Electricity
Activator: What is the bathtub effect? Explain.
Mini Lesson: Light Bulb Video
Light bulb activity
Student Engagement: Sharing zoning maps.
Wrap-up: Feedback
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SimCity Tutorial
Activator: Have you ever used SimCity 4 before?
Mini Lesson: SimCity Basics and Starting the Tutorial
Student Engagement: Work in groups to play SimCity
Wrap-up: Save your progress. Tell me how your group did.
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Sim City: Start Your Own Virtual City
Activator: Write down one challenge that you conquered in SimCity
Mini Lesson: Discuss zoning, services, power and things that you need to start your city.
Student Engagement: Create and work on a new city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Improve Your Virtual City
Activator: Would you want to be a mayor of a real city? Why or why not?
Mini Lesson: Watch a short tutorial about SimCity.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Reflect on Your Virtual City
Activator: What sort of special buildings do you have? A Fire Station? Police Station? Medical Center? A school? Power Plant? Something Else? Choose one of your special buildings and explain the effect it has on your city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss budget, zoning, utilities, and safety services.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Sim City: Final Full Day of Your Virtual City
Activator: What have you learned from SimCity that will help you design your own city?
Mini Lesson: Discuss models.
Student Engagement: Improve your city. Note: creating disasters is not allowed.
Wrap-up: Share a question or something important that you learned today.
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Taking a Look at the Project
Activator: What would be a good location for your city? Describe important features? Choose a specific location on Earth or elsewhere. Briefly explain why you made these choices.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Rubrics and Project Plan
Student Engagement: Brainstorm and record ideas for your city.
Wrap-up: Share your ideas
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Project Plan
Activator: Finish Looking over the rubrics. Highlight and take notes as necessary. Make note of any vocabulary words that you don't understand.
Mini Lesson: Let's Look at the Project Plan
Student Engagement: Begin working on Project Plan
Wrap-up: What do you think of your plan so far?
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Real World Case Studies
Activator: What is good nutrition? What foods do you eat at home that are nutritional? Why is good nutrition important?
Mini Lesson:
Lufa Farms Video
Student Engagement: Discussion
Wrap-up: What are some innovative farming options that cities could adopt?
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Farming in Singapore
Objectives: To expand our knowledge of urban farming. To make some progress on our Project Plan.
Activator: List things necessary for a plant to grow.
Mini Lesson: Watch SkyGreens
Student Engagement: Discussion & Choosing Roles for Students
Wrap-up: What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of SkyGreens? Could we do this in the US?
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Making Big Decisions
Activator: List one goal that you have for your city. List one goal that you have for the process of designing your city.
Mini Lesson: Introduce the questions for discussion (p. 43 in Pilot Handbook)
Student Engagement: Discussion and some research
Wrap-up: Share your ideas/research with your team
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Location, Location, Location
Activator: Write down your Future City role/job. Now think of one or two problems that you need to solve for your city; for example, if you are the electrical engineer ask, "What are the best energy sources for my city?" If you are the agricultural engineer ask, "What is the best way to farm in your city?" (You may use a computer to help you with this activator, if you like.) The project manager should ask, "What is a good location for our city?"
Mini Lesson:
Description of writing assignment.
You will write no more than 500 words. You must choose a problem that matches your Future City role. Explain why your solution is a good solution. Support your ideas with research. Try to make your ideas new and futuristic, but they must be plausible. Feel free to discuss your ideas with your team members. Please site 3 sources (as per the Future City research sheets.) Later, your ideas with be incorporated into the team's city description. Rough draft due Friday. Your writing assignment will be due on October 17th. (Rubric to follow.)
Student Engagement: Share ideas (from activator) and discuss possible solutions with your team mates. Write down your ideas.
Wrap-up: Share
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MORE RESEARCH
Activator: Write down one or two ideas to share from yesterday's brainstorming and research sessions.
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SCALE
Activator: If the scale factor was 1 foot = 1 inch, approximately how tall would a model of you be?
Mini Lesson: Scale Intro
Student Engagement: Scale activities. You will work in teams of 3.
Wrap-up: Why is scale important in your model?
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And It Begins
Activator: What do you need to do before you can write your paragraph? What do you need to do before you can build the model?
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Activator: Read the STEM Future City Writing Assignment Rubric
Mini Lesson: Go over the rubric
Student Engagement: Research/write/plan/build
Wrap-up: Clean-up
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Completing the Project
Activator: What still needs to be completed in the model? What still needs to be completed in the written City Description?
Mini Lesson: Discussion/ Presenting in Boston/ Sharing Projects at BPMS Health and Wellness Fair
Student Engagement: Complete work on model and city description. Complete reflections on project plan.
Wrap-up: Clean up.