Activities
Guiding Questions
Initially the unit will start with guiding questions. The questions are designed to access prior knowledge on health issues, extracting ideas on how students will demonstrate and practice critical thinking skills linking information with practical applications within the constraints of their project, and how they are going to become a member of a bigger ‘family’ than their own. At the beginning of each lesson the students will have the guiding questions to answer as journal entries.
As time goes on students will revisit earlier questions and develop new questions themselves.
Two primary questions that I want to pose at the very beginning of the unit are:
- What impact does your eating, and drinking habits have on your health?
- How are you going to acclimate your new knowledge to insure success?
In addition to the curricular readings, discussions, journaling, and presentations students will be visiting websites for information that will lead them to successfully interweave technology with engineering practices. Time will be given to the teams for collaboration purposes. In doing so they will be asked to perform design challenges that will devise clean water filters, create model aquifers, and / or manufacture ways to harvest rainwater. By doing so they have the skills to take their apparatuses and share with family members when they travel abroad.
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