Category: Main Lessons
D-Bait (Exemplary)
Friday, June 7th, 2019
Using principles of ecosystem interactions and buoyancy, students will design and 3D print real fishing lures that imitate the behaviors of aquatic insects.
Go With the Flow
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Lesson focuses on students creating a working model of an ecological concept, the River Continuum Concept and demonstrating how human impacts change insect ecology. Students design a working model that shows river flow and compares and contrasts a natural ecosystem with a human-impacted one and how that relates to insect diversity in an area.
Clean Sweep
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Students will describe and illustrate
the feeding relationships of aquatic food webs. They will communicate
environmental issues of plastic pollution in marine habitats in a mass media
format. They will predict buoyancy of an object using mathematics and
predictive analysis. Working in a cross-curricular team they will design,
build, and test a device to collect plastic pollution from an aquatic habitat.
Bumblebot: Engineering a Pollination Solution
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Students will model photosynthesis and energy transfer, examine human influence on pollinators, and learn bee behavior in order to understand why pollination is important to ecology and food production. Through the design process, using biomimicry and 3D printers, students will produce a robot that mimics a honey bee transferring pollen while taking nectar from a flower back to the hive.
