STEM Concepts

technologies that adjust to students’ learning paces and styles.

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Resources/ Suggested Lesson(s) Energy at Your Schoo l - Students will identify the energy sources for their schools and homes. They will construct a plan to conserve energy at school and home. ●​ Objective: Design an object, tool, or process that minimizes or maximizes heat energy transfer. Identify criteria and constraints, develop a prototype for interactive testing, analyze data from testing, and propose modifications for optimizing the design solution. Emphasize by demonstrating how the structure of different materials allows them to function as either conductors or insulators. ●​ Performance Expectations - Students will analyze and interpret data to determine the energy efficiency of their school. Students will ask questions about their own home’s energy efficiency, construct explanations, and design solutions for their homes. Smoke in a Bottle - How are complete and incomplete combustion different? How do the products affect us? ●​ Objectives - Students will develop models to show that molecules are made of different kinds, proportions, and quantities of atoms. They will emphasize the understanding that there are differences between atoms and molecules and that certain combinations of atoms form specific molecules. Examples of simple molecules could include water (H2O), atmospheric oxygen (O2), and carbon dioxide (CO2). Next, students will construct an explanation for how the availability of natural resources, the occurrence of natural hazards, and climate change affect human activity. Examples of natural resources could include