Community Project

Student structures created in this unit. From left to right; a KidWind wind turbine, a posterboard with a green space and a blue waterway that has tiny home models incorporated, and a student model of a playground. In the back is a Powerwheel.
Learning Goals

Learning Goals:

  1. Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. (VA: Cr1)
  2. Develop possible solutions. (3-5-ETS1-B)
  3. Optimize the design solution. (3-5-ETS1-C)
  4. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W 4.10
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Lesson 7 of 7 / Time: 1-8 periods of 1 hour

Students decide on a community project they’d like to do to personally help with climate change or energy justice.

 

Renewable City

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