Keeping Out the Heat (STEM 4.0) Project Based STEM Activities for Middle Grades Science Project Based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) activities create a learning environment in which students investigate and engineer solutions to real-world problems, and construct evidence-based explanations of real-world phenomena within their science content. Students are also provided the opportunity to re-design models they have developed, based on peer feedback and reviews. Through these engineering practices within the content, students can gain a deeper understanding of science and are exposed to how STEM relates to their education and future career goals. Engagement or Examine and determine areas or energy conservation. Introduction: Standard SC.7.P.11.4: Observe and describe that heat flows in predictable ways, Alignment: moving from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature. Investigate and describe the transformation of energy SC.7.P.11.2: from one form to another. SC.7.P.10.1: Illustrate that the energy arrives as radiation with a Sun’s wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors. Set-Up Suggested 2 sessions of class (block schedule) Student 4 sessions of class (regular schedule) Timeframe: Teacher LAFS.8.SL.1.3: Delineate a argument and specific claims, speaker’s evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and Standards: sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced. LAFS.68.WHST.2.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. Define In order to save money while reducing the carbon footprints based on or electrical consumption, you have applied to design a residential home that will limit the entry of heat from the outside for a community Need 1 developer. Expected Task: Develop a model house that is designed to minimize the entry of heat the Step from the outside and present research (their own findings) Problem demonstrating effects of their insulation efforts. Present model to as a sales pitch to a community developer Identify Research and Written information by the students about the need or problem being or Citations: solved with citations noted. 2 Need Vocabulary: Conduction, convection, radiation, heat, thermal energy, temperature, Step Research Problem insolation, infrared the Criteria: The House must have at least two scale windows per side and 2 3 )
Keeping Out the Heat (STEM 4.0) Project Based STEM Activities for Middle Grades Science Project Based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) activities create a learning environment in which students investigate and engineer solutions to real-world problems, and construct evidence-based explanations of real-world phenomena within their science content. Students are also provided the opportunity to re-design models they have developed, based on peer feedback and reviews. Through these engineering practices within the content, students can gain a deeper understanding of science and are exposed to how STEM relates to their education and future career goals. Teacher Set-Up Engagement or Introduction: Examine and determine areas or energy conservation. Standard Alignment: SC.7.P.11.4: Observe and describe that heat flows in predictable ways, moving from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature. SC.7.P.11.2: Investigate and describe the transformation of energy from one form to another. SC.7.P.10.1: Illustrate that the Sun’s energy arrives as radiation with a wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors. Suggested Student Timeframe: 2 sessions of class (block schedule) 4 sessions of class (regular schedule) Standards: LAFS.8.SL.1.3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced. LAFS.68.WHST.2.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently. Step 1 Identify the Need or Problem Define In order to save money while reducing the carbon footprints based on electrical consumption, you have applied to design a residential home that will limit the entry of heat from the outside for a community developer. Expected Task: Develop a model house that is designed to minimize the entry of heat from the outside and present research (their own findings) demonstrating effects of their insulation efforts. Present model to as a sales pitch to a community developer Step 2 Research the Need or Problem Research and Citations: Written information by the students about the need or problem being solved with citations noted. Vocabulary: Conduction, convection, radiation, heat, thermal energy, temperature, insolation, infrared 3 Criteria: The House must have at least two scale windows per side and 2 )
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