How could I use only natural resources found in my local environment to construct functional bushcraft, such as snowshoes?
Adaptive Perseverance
Students will identify and sustainably harvest natural materials found in our local environment in order to design and build a set of usable snowshoes that will be required to withstand testing in the snow.
What snowshoe design is best for walking through snow?
What natural resources, that I can harvest locally, are best for building functional snowshoes?
What is the design process?
Students should be able to identify different plants in our local environment that they use for the project.
Students should be able to work cooperatively in groups to accomplish a build goal.
Students should be able to build two identical and functional snowshoes out of natural materials they have harvested.
Written and Oral Discourse - Students will communicate ideas and arguments through writing and through speech
Use of Construction Tools - Students will use pruning shears and other hand tools to build their snowshoe design.
Engineering Process - Students will use the engineering process to design, build, and implement a project based on set criteria.
Note taking - Students write key ideas in their lab notebooks so that they may use the resource on labs and other assessments.
Differentiation:
Explicit instruction of expectations for answering questions in complete sentences (TTQA) on formative and summative assessments.
Explicit instruction on lab notebook setup and maintenance throughout the course.
Explicit instruction on reading articles, lab activity instructions, and textbook passages (Bold Words, Headings, Interpreting Diagrams and Charts).
Providing a variety of tools to help students identify different specimens
HS-ETS1-3. Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
Textbook - Living in the Environment G.Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman
The Art of Bushcraft: A Field Guide to Preserving Traditional Skills and Reconnecting with Nature
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