HS - Science
Welcome to High School Science!
Week 5 Supplemental Learning
Theme: Technology & Society
This week you get to CHOOSE a career to focus on. Below you will see four projects centered around careers that use technology to build mechanisms that benefit society. Read the challenge connected to each Career and choose the project that is most interesting to you!
While you are at home learning, we want you to review the big concepts found in your courses and reinforce your understanding through Project Based Learning from the online platform Defined Learning. Each project has four parts: Review, Research & Choose a Product, Design & Create, & Reflect. The goal is to choose a product from the list in each assignment and apply your learning from the perspective of that professional to develop a creative product.
Click on the career to find this week's assignment and have fun learning and creating!
You are a structural engineer who has been asked by the department of transportation to provide materials that will educate the citizens in your region regarding bridge quality and safety through a community forum.
As CEO of a new technology company specializing in computers that are environmentally friendly, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. You and your team will need to do a great deal of pre-planning and preparation to determine if your company can tackle this challenge and stay in business. The production of these computers must be done in a timely fashion.
You are part of a team of flood control specialists working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. You will need to determine the value of an extended levee system throughout the Wyoming Valley and the effects this system will have downstream.
You are a marine engineer who is working as part of a team of engineers to design an underwater remote-operated vehicle that can accomplish a number of specific tasks. As you consider the design, you will need to conduct research on currently existing ROV's and the special features they possess
Take a look at the careers being explored this week!
Structural Engineer
Computer Manufacturing
US Army Core Engineer
ROV Engineer