Future City 8th Grade Water 2019/2020
What is a City?
Objectives
To think about and explore what makes a city a city.
To imagine what a city of the future might look like.
Activator
In Google Classroom answer the question:
What is a city? Write down your thoughts in a list or paragraph.
Mini Lesson
Urbanization and the Future of Cities (4 minutes)
Our Future in Cities Ted Talk (16 minutes) 6 min
Student Engagement
Answer TedEd Questions
Discussion of Infrastructure
Wrap-up
Sketch/draw something you might find in a city of the future.
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Zoning and City Planning
Objectives:
To think about what makes a successful city.
To review infrastructure.
To learn about city zoning.
Activator
What is Infrastructure?
What is city zoning?
Would you want to place a school next door to a factory? Why or why not?
Mini Lesson:
Zoning Activity: Which zone?
EL Zoning Map
Watch Greening the Ghetto (Majora Carter) (first 10 minutes)
Student Engagement:
Discussion: What is "Environmental Justice"? What is Red Lining"?
Look at sample zoning maps: 3 Positives, 2 Changes your group would make to zoning.
Wrap-up: Share your group's ideas.
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Electricity Part 1
Objective
To learn about electricity
Activator
What is coal?
Mini Lesson
Watch National Grid Video
Student Engagement:
What is supply and demand?
What time of day is energy demand usually at its highest?
When is energy demand usually at its lowest?
What is the bathtub effect?
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?
Discuss: Resilience is when a system can recover well after a disaster. What sort of infrastructure is in place to make the electric grid resilient?
Wrap-up
Ticket Out: List as many sources of electricity as you can.
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8th Grade Energy
Objectives: To learn about energy.
Activator: What are some forms of energy? Which are renewable? What does sustainable mean?
Mini Lesson:
Day 1
Watch Growing Appetites, Limited Resources
Watch Energy Defined
Watch Putting Energy to Use
Watch A Never Ending Supply
Day 2
Watch Solar Power
Watch Wind Power
Watch Solving the Storage Problem
Watch Toward a Smarter Grid
Student Engagement
Answer Questions/Discussion
Wrap-up
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Nova Energy Lab (2018)
Objective
To gain a better understanding of energy. To use the concepts that we have learned to design energy solutions.
Activator
Where most energy originates:
Examples of renewable energy...
Most energy efficient time to charge electronics...
Limitations of solar...
Drawbacks of fossil fuels...
Mini Lesson
About the Energy Lab
Notes: Click on the energy map links underneath the sliders.
Los Angeles has no "live data" so the final test will be unsuccessful. Still give the simulation a try.
Do the Challenges from easiest (1) to hardest (4).
You can't use more $ than you have in your budget.
You can't use more than 99% of your land area available.
Student Engagment
Play the Energy Lab Game
Wrap-up
Discuss the game/simulation
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Water
Objectives:
To reflect on the importance of water.
To learn that clean water is necessary to people all over the world.
Activator:
Is water important?
Mass water Chronicle Video
Mini Lesson
Dollar Street Quick Tour
Dollar
Vocabulary: de-salinization, brine
Student Engagement
Explore Dollar Street Website and make your lists (Google Classroom)
Wrap-up
Submit your work
Extra
Read the article: "The biggest challenge of the next century is the clean water crisis"
Write a short paragraph (Google Classroom)
http://www.worldwater.org/conflict/list/
When is water Safe to Drink? (5 min)
Where we get our fresh water? (4 min)
Are We Running Out of Clean Water? (5 min)
https://www.ted.com/playlists/29/our_future_in_cities
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Sustainability
Objectives
To think about sustainability
To learn about one model city
Activator
If you could build a city, where would you start?
Mini Lesson
Vocab: tradeoff, innovation, utilities, sustainable, gray water
Watch Sustainable City in Dubai (15 minutes)
Student Engagement
Google Classroom assignment
Fact Sheet about the city
Wrap-up
Submit Answers
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The Future of Transportation
To learn about connectivity
To learn and think about transportation
Activator:
Connectivity
Video
880cities
Mini Lesson:
Would the following locations be logical? • A grocery store on the outskirts of town. • An elementary school next to a jail. • A library near a school. • Four grocery stores next to each other. • A coffee shop near a busy road. • A school on the opposite side of town from residential areas. • A shopping mall in a sparsely populated area.
Student Engagement:
The council members of Weebeebuilding town have recently acquired a large plot of land. The members of the council would like your team’s assistance in creating a new town on this land. The council will provide funding for 20 buildings in the first year, but it is important that you make wise choices about which buildings should be constructed. Once you have settled on specific types of buildings, you will need to draw up plans in the form of a large-scale map. Your team will present your map and supporting documents to the council.
- At your tables, decide what the most important buildings that you need in your city for year 1, and year 2.
- Put your names on the back of the papers.
Wrap-Up: Present your ideas to the class.
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Map your City/Town
Objectives
To create a city/town that has connectivity, necessary infrastructure and zones.
To create a place where people would want to live
Activator: Check-in
Mini Lesson
Look at the sample map
What would you change or add?
Student Engagement
- Use the graph paper to place your buildings and make a map of your town.
- Color Zones (Pink:Commercial, Yellow:Residential, Orange:Industrial, Green:Municipal)
- Put in Transportation - roads and public transportation.
- Put in some parks
Wrap-up
Put your papers in your bins
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Objective
To learn about scale for
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 pairs.
Wrap-up: Why is scale important in your model?
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EV3 Robotics
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Map Your Futuristic City
Objectives
To start planning your futuristic city.
To start planning the model.
Activator
Model Video
Mini Lesson
Model Rubric
Student Engagement
1. Choose a location in the world for your city
2. Advance your city into the future
3. Decide on a pollution, climate change, water or energy challenge
Example1: Because of drought, we have find new ways to provide enough water for people and crops.
Example 2: Because of climate change, ocean levels are rising, leading to flooding in coastal areas.
Example 3: We are polluting our air and water, and contributing to climate change, we have to find other energy solutions.
Example 4: We are creating too much trash, we have to find ways to eliminate waste.
4. Map out your futuristic city
5. Decide which part of your city will become your model. (refer to rubric)
Wrap-up
Clean up
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Objectives
To plan your futuristic map/model plan
To work on your moving parts
Activator
How is your planning coming along?
Mini Lesson
Materials and Tools
Student Engagement
Finish futuristic map/model plan
Work on moving parts
Wrap-up
Cleanup
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Objectives
To work in teams on your Future City Planning, and model building.
To think small and big about solving problems with engineering.
Activator
Simple Low Cost Design Solutions
Mini Lesson
In your Future Cities, you can think big, or think small, when you design your energy and/or water solutions.
Student Engagement
Finish futuristic map/model plan
Work on moving parts
Work on model
Wrap-up
Cleanup
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Model Building Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrUQgoCbd-8
City model moving parts
City Model Images
start at 6:30 (play without sound?)
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Objectives
To make a plan to finish the model and presentation
Activator
Revue rubric for model
Mini Lesson
Presentation rubric
(The model is your main visual aid)
What's your plan to get things done on time?
Student Engagement
Make a plan for what needs to get done, and who will do it?
Wrap-up
Clean up
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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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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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
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.