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HS Engineering, Technology and Application Sciences

Pick your topic/interest area from the lists below

Engineering Design ETS1

ETS1-1 Analyzing a Global Challenge

Apply as appropriate--dependent on the nature of the investigation:

General Safety Guidelines

PHYSICS Safety Guidelines

CHEMISTRY Safety Guidelines

EARTH and SPACE SCIENCE Safety

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Science and Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems

Developing and using models

Using mathematics and computational thinking

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Sputnik

First satellite: Russia October 4, 1957

Hear the sound of Sputnik

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DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous, driverless, vehicle Wikimedia Commons Spaceape CC SA 2.5

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Asking questions and defining problems in 9–12 builds on K–8 experiences and progresses to formulating, refining, and evaluating empirically testable questions and design problems using models and simulations.

  • Analyze complex real-world problems by specifying criteria and constraints for successful solutions.

 ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.

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Wildfire

Pxhere PD

Prior Knowledge/Preview
Getting Started with Design Theory Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Learning Lab
Intro activity: Design a hurricane-proof skyscraper model NASA
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Inquiry science
       Printable activity
       On-line activity: Prototyping Smithsonian Learning Lab
10 Principles for a Good Design Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Learning Lab
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LAB experiments
       Lab #1 Sea ice declining data Pretest and Expressing Ideas Carbon Time BSCS
       Lab #2 Making Models section in Ozone depletion resource band activity University of Berkeley
       Lab #3 Investigate atmospheric boundary layer and climate change---modelling NAP
       Lab #4 Wildfire Response Lockheed Martin Discovery Learning
        Lab #5 Hubble Space Telescope projects NASA and MORE
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Aerospace CONNECTIONS:
Applications and Examples
Scroll down to Body Systems in Space Design support product for trip to Mars Siemens STEM
Under the Radar Lockheed Martin
Sputnik and Space Technology  Smithsonian Learning Lab
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EXTENSION material for the curious
What is technology? Smithsonian Learning Lab
Strength versus Weight NASM Smithsonian Learning Lab
A History of Biotechnology in 7 objects SI Magazine
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