Projects
The Odyssey Project
Last year, teachers used their creativity to link the The Odyssey to Geometry and Robotics.
ELA 9 - Students read The Odyssey and discuss characters, themes, and historical context.
Geometry - Students use The Odyssey to extend on Triangle Unit: reading maps, using triangle theorems to determine locations of characters.
Robotics - Students use Tinkercad to design characters and objects from the book to then 3-D print.
Biology of the Blue Lotus Flower
This year, the 9th Grade STEM Team created a new project for The Odyssey unit.
ELA 9 - Students read The Odyssey and discussed characters, themes, and historical concepts.
Geometry - Students used The Odyssey to extend on Triangle Unit: reading maps, using triangle theorems to determine locations of characters.
Biology - Students studied the lotus flower, particularly the cell signaling pathway that contributed to hallucinating in the story.
Robotics - Students used Tinkercad to build 3D models of the cell signaling pathways and presented to their peers.
The Martian Project
Our teachers tied the novel The Martian to Chemistry and Computer Science.
ELA 10 - Students read The Martian, design a government and create civil laws for a new colony on Mars, and create commercials to invite countries to send citizens to the new colony.
Chemistry - Students research the environment on Mars, skype with a scientist to learn about the environmental conditions on Mars from an expert, design physical structures to create a colony on Mars, and create a video presentation describing the structures.
Computer Science - Students use Tinkercad to design the physical structures for a Mars colony and print the structures on a 3-D printer.
4_1 Mars Video Project Presentation (Mar 31, 2022 at 6_00 PM).MOVZoo Habitat
In Biology, students learned about habitats. Teachers extended on this to create a cross-curricular opportunity.
Biology - Students research animal habitats while learning about ecology, the ecosystem, biomes, and conservation. Students use their knowledge and research to create an animal habitat at our local zoo. During this activity, students receive guidance and feedback from the zoo director.
Geometry - Students use area, volume and statistics to ensure habitat size is sustainable for animals.
Robotics - Students used Tinkercad to design to the zoo habitats
Red Panda Zoo Exhibit.mp4
Egg Drop Challenge
During their collaborative STEM time in Academic Opportunity, students in the current 10th grade students wanted to determine the best way to drop an egg from the highest height to prevent it from being cracked or shattered. The students came up with this challenge based on the novel, The Martian, that they were reading in their STEM ELA 10 class. Through the understanding that NASA had to plan how to safely land rovers and people on Mars, the students tried to determine the best and safest way to land an egg on Earth. Groups determined that best padding that ranged from pillows, cotton candy, foam, and other combinations of materials. The class discovered that foam insulation is several layers was the safest way to land an egg on Earth!
Polyhedron Project
In Geometry class, students made connections between their 2 dimensional Tessellation and 3D polyhedron net. They completed a research paper on Archimedean solids, and then created a model using any materials they desired. Some students used paper, some straws, and one even used a glow-forge to create an acrylic model.
Tessellation Project.pdfPolyhedron Project.pdfKole Singler - Polyhedron Project.pptxThe Bridge Project
In Geometry class, students extended on the standards of congruent triangles to design and build bridges. A great connection between math and engineering!
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