Connecting AGSTEM to AKS

Asynchronous 2

This week your asynchronous modules will be one lesson split into two parts in order to ensure you have the time to complete each part with great thought and collaboration.

ASYNCHRONOUS 1 will include the opening, video, and mini-lesson.

ASYNCHRONOUS 2 will include your team challenges (2) and a closing.

Team Challenge #1: Assessment

Team Challenge #2: Actionable Goals

Closing

Why did the lettuce get harvested before the pumpkin?

Because it was a-head!

For this lesson, you will go through the steps to create a lesson centered around the engineering design process in expanding your aquaponics system. Since the goal of your school is to create a commericial-sized aquaponics system, you lessons should be centered around the following include further AKS standards related to engineering for both physics and environmental science tracts:

Physics/ Engineering

Physics: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the important of the Law of Conservation of Energy in predicting the behavior of physical systems
Physical Science: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information to explain transformations and flow of energy within a system
Advanced Physics: Collaborate as a team to optimize a design solution that involves the engineering design process in which solutions are systematically tested and refined

Environmental Science

Environmental Science: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information to investigate the flow of energy and cycling of matter within an ecosystemEcology: Investigate how the stability of an ecosystem depends on energy flowResearch I: Develop and use models to explain and illustrate with examples how living systems interact with biotic and abiotic factors

Team Challenge #1: Assessment

For this team challenge, you will identify different parameters that will help you scale up your system to a commercial system. There are considerations involved in upscaling your system, and some of those considerations are in the the the Google Doc. Answers these questions to identify major considerations and determine how you will move into the new school year.

Team Challenge #2: Actionable Goals

Actionable Goals

Since one of your main focuses as a school is to build a system that can become commercialized for your district, you will create a plan of action moving into the school year on how to make that achievable. You will also connect your commercialized plan with one additional project in your school that relates to conservation and sustainability (Hint: I heard a mention of composting!) You will create a list of actionable goals for yourself and for your students using LucidChart. Once you have completed your goals, submit in this Dropbox.

*One member of your team can make an account.

Closing

For this exit ticket, fill out this Google Form to share how you would support your classroom learning with the aquaponics system. With completing the engineering design process, we have focused mostly on how to make the aquaponics a central part of your classroom. As high school teachers, we do have more AKS to meet than then ones outlined above.

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