Project: Water Woes

Grade: 5th

Enduring Understanding:

Water is a valuable/powerful resource, that is part of a larger system, and worthy of awareness and respect.

Standards:

NGSS Earth Systems (ESS 5.2a, ESS 5.3, ETS1a-c) , 

Engineering Standards 

Driving Question:

What makes water valuable and powerful? How can we as young engineers come up with a solution to water–related disasters on our coast?

Final Product:

City Disaster Plan/Engineering Blueprint, with optional extension for 3D design

Culminating Experience:

(Low-key) Gallery Walk at Open House

Benchmark #1: Intro to Water, vastness

Hydrosphere, Mystery Science Lesson, Math calculations, chart, proportions, Novel study intro (Riding the Giant Wave)

Benchmark #2: Groundwater

Mystery science lesson 3, Revisiting mapping skills (Note: this is scaffold for city plan/blueprint)

Benchmark #3: Tsunamis

Mystery Science Lesson 4 , Scaffolding 1D—> 2D skills, small group—> individual; Local city plans

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