These projects allow students the opportunity to create, test, experiment, design and collaborate to meet some seriously engaging challenges!
Makerspace Suggested Materials (what to put in a makerspace)
Night Sky Star Stories Makinak: The Turtle
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Students learn the components of the rock cycle and how rocks can change over time under the influence of weathering, erosion, pressure and heat. They learn about geotechnical engineering and the role these engineers play in the development of an area of land, the design and placement of new structures, and detection of natural disasters.
This resource describes the physics behind the formation of clouds, and provides a demonstration of those principles using a beaker, ice, a match, hot water, and a laser pointer. This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications.
Students redesign and justify the packaging used in consumer products. Design criteria include reducing the amount of packaging material by 25%.
Students use everyday building materials sand, pea gravel, cement and water to create and test pervious pavement. They learn what materials make up a traditional, impervious concrete mix and how pervious pavement mixes differ. Groups are challenged to create their own pervious pavement mixes, experimenting with material ratios to evaluate how infiltration rates change with different mix combinations.
Students create large-scale models of microfluidic devices using a process similar to that of the PDMS and plasma bonding that is used in the creation of lab-on-a-chip devices. They use disposable foam plates, plastic bendable straws and gelatin dessert mix. After the molds have hardened overnight, they use plastic syringes to inject their model devices with colored fluid to test various flow rates. From what they learn, students are able to answer the challenge question presented in lesson 1 of this unit by writing individual explanation statements.
As a weighted plastic egg is dropped into a tub of flour, students see the effect that different heights and masses of the same object have on the overall energy of that object while observing a classic example of potential (stored) energy transferred to kinetic energy (motion). The plastic egg's mass is altered by adding pennies inside it. Because the egg's shape remains constant, and only the mass and height are varied, students can directly visualize how these factors influence the amounts of energy that the eggs carry for each experiment, verified by measurement of the resulting impact craters. Students learn the equations for kinetic and potential energy and then make predictions about the depths of the resulting craters for drops of different masses and heights. They collect and graph their data, comparing it to their predictions, and verifying the relationships described by the equations. This classroom demonstration is also suitable as a small group activity.
In this lesson, students learn about sound. Girls and boys are introduced to the concept of frequency and how it applies to musical sounds.
Kent Treadgold's 7th grade science class uses a hands-on project to learn the abstract concept of density. They measure the mass and volume of different cylinders, create their own computerized spreadsheets for data, and enter the formula to calculate density. By the end of the project, they're able to conclude on their own that density will not change as the shape and size of an object changes, as long as the material it's made of stays the same.
In this short demo/activity, a balloon with baking soda in it is stretched over the mouth of a flask or bottle containing vinegar. The balloon is tipped so that the baking soda falls into the vinegar, and the reaction creates carbon dioxide, which inflates the balloon. The activity is part of the children's book, The Air We Breathe.
This is an activity about 3-D imagery. Learners can follow the instructions to create their own 3-D images using a digital camera, photo editing software, and red-blue 3-D glasses.
We start our look at the male reproductive system with a quick summary of the function of both the male and female reproductive systems.
Then we describe the primary sex organs, secondary sex organs, as well as what are Internal sex organs and External sex organs.
Lesson 1 in our Male Reproductive System series. This is part of our Anatomy and Physiology lecture series.
If this video helps you please be sure to LST -like subscribe and tell your friends. Your support helps us make more videos. For the complete series please visit http://mrfordsclass.net/
Other Free Videos in the Male Reproductive System series:
-Introduction to the Male Reproductive System (19:01): http://youtu.be/jhlcnndfiG0
-Testes and Spermatic Ducts (19:02): http://youtu.be/lVlNH2SDIQU
-The Scrotum (19:03): http://youtu.be/S1uEG-NYKaA
The second video in our series on the male reproductive system examines the testes and spermatic ducts. We go into more detail in other videos about spermatogenesis. This video lays out the framework of ducts that sperm must take in order to leave the scrotum.
Also discussed in this video are the testes, their structure and functions.
Lesson 2 in our Male Reproductive System series. This is part of our Anatomy and Physiology lecture series.
If this video helps you please be sure to LST -like subscribe and tell your friends. Your support helps us make more videos. For the complete series please visit http://mrfordsclass.net/
Other Free Videos in the Male Reproductive System series:
-Introduction to the Male Reproductive System (19:01): http://youtu.be/jhlcnndfiG0
-Testes and Spermatic Ducts (19:02): http://youtu.be/lVlNH2SDIQU
-The Scrotum (19:03): http://youtu.be/S1uEG-NYKaA
We had to talk about the scrotum briefly in a previous video. This video looks specifically at this structure. Included in this video is the composition of the structure as well as how it regulate the temperature needed for sperm production.
Lesson 3 in our Male Reproductive System series. This is part of our Anatomy and Physiology lecture series.
If this video helps you please be sure to LST -like subscribe and tell your friends. Your support helps us make more videos. For the complete series please visit http://mrfordsclass.net/
Other Free Videos in the Male Reproductive System series:
-Introduction to the Male Reproductive System (19:01): http://youtu.be/jhlcnndfiG0
-Testes and Spermatic Ducts (19:02): http://youtu.be/lVlNH2SDIQU
-The Scrotum (19:03): http://youtu.be/S1uEG-NYKaA
In the Arizona desert, farmers depend on an ample supply of irrigation to grow their crops. As climate changes, irrigation managers face a host of issues to keep the water flowing.
This lesson will discuss the details for a possible future manned mission to Mars. The human risks are discussed and evaluated to minimize danger to astronauts. A specialized launch schedule is provided and the different professions of the crew are discussed. Once on the surface, the crew's activities and living area will be covered, as well as how they will make enough fuel to make it off the Red Planet and return home.
The basic processes involved in manufacturing systems are demonstrated while students produce their own picture frames. They learn about cutting, shaping, assembly, joining and finishing, as well as attention to quality, safety and production quantity.
Historically, seafloor mapping occurred with a simple data collection method: soundings. Soundings are taken by dropping a weight with a pre-measured rope off the side of a boat and noting the measurement on the rope when the weight hits the bottom. In this activity, student teams replicate the creation of seafloor bathymetry by taking a simplified form of soundings of an unseen seafloor model inside a shoebox and translating their collected data into a visualization of the topography, enabling them to better understand and appreciate modern remote sensing.