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Here are some resources from NASA to incorporate into your PBL units.  

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Historical look at Space Suits - see attached (Heat transfer, insulator, conductor, temperature, materials, etc

Lessons from NASA & Microsoft provide hands-on experiences focusing on what astronauts need to consider when living in space

https://thejournal.com/articles/2019/06/24/microsoft-partners-with-nasa-for-lesson-plans.aspx?m=1

3. Train like an Astronaut (Health, Physical Education Activities, Math)

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/trainlikeanastronaut/home/index.html

4. Toys in Space (Physical Science, gravity, etc) https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/microgravity/home/toys-in-space.html

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EVA Systems EPO Presentation_ Released January 2011

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Clayton Summer 2019 Sample 3D STEM Presentation

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 Closing the distance between the International Space Station and the classroom – Microsoft ED (6th grade astronomy) 

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 Closing the distance between the International Space Station and the classroom – Microsoft ED (6th grade astronomy) 

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https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2019/06/closing-the-distance-between-the-international-space-station-and-the-classroom/

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https://www.defenders.org/penguins/what-you-can-do

https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange_.html

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/penguin

https://www.zazzle.com/save+the+penguins+tshirts
Save the Penguins Science Scope Article

http://learningcenter.nsta.org

Save the Penguins Engage ppt story

www.auburn.edu/~cgs0013/ETK/SaveThePenguins.ppt‎

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzX6Rqz_fGDDek91cmRiRGp6Q1R2YlZoS1ctWnRDdEJ6ZlN3/view?usp=sharing

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Lake Nyos Phenomenon Exploration Activities

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p9DpEDhfrgpssRlRoDeZCjKnXDFOgzEG/view?usp=sharing

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Science Phenomena/Problems https://www.georgiascienceteacher.org/phenomena/                      (GOOGLE GSTA PHENOMENA) https://www.ngssphenomena.com/                              (GOOGLE NGSS PHENOMENA) https://sites.google.com/site/sciencephenomena/search (GOOGLE #PROJECT PHENOMENA) www.teachengineering.org   3D Assessment Task Formats http://stemteachingtools.org/assets/landscapes/NGSSTaskFormats_June2017_v2.pdf Characteristics of Great STEM Lessons: https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/17/ctq_jolly_stem.html 

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Science Phenomena/Problems https://www.georgiascienceteacher.org/phenomena/                      (GOOGLE GSTA PHENOMENA) https://www.ngssphenomena.com/                              (GOOGLE NGSS PHENOMENA) https://sites.google.com/site/sciencephenomena/search (GOOGLE #PROJECT PHENOMENA) www.teachengineering.org   3D Assessment Task Formats http://stemteachingtools.org/assets/landscapes/NGSSTaskFormats_June2017_v2.pdf Characteristics of Great STEM Lessons: https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/17/ctq_jolly_stem.html 

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Georgia Science Teachers Association - GSE Phenomena

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peacock.jeremy@gmail.com if you have any questions about this resource.

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform used in classrooms, offices and social settings. Sign up to create, play and share engaging quizzes on any topic!

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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ExploreLearning : Get hands-on, minds-on in math and science

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ExploreLearning Gizmos: Math & Science Simulations

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Review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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www.bkconsultancy.org

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This site is a curated collection of science phenomena for the NGSS, along with phenomenon based learning resources and help for how to use phenomenon to drive student questions in the classroom centered around 3 dimensional teaching and learning.

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Access Google Sites with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Creating a wonder wall is a great tool to use in inquiry to build a space where students can

get students thinking

share their learning throughout their inquiry

keep ideas concepts and questions visible

interact with others

share standards, learning goals, and assessment criteria

share evidence of learning

This post is part 1 in my inquiry series. To learn more about inquiry click through to see my many other posts about inquiry.

Also why not connect and stay up to date on all things inquiry by joining my teaching with inquiry facebook group.

What's a Wonder Wall?

Wonder wall boards are built at the beginning of a unit and are kept alive throughout student learning. These are living examples of student learning throughout the unit.

Wonder wall boards are built at the beginning of a unit and are kept alive throughout student learning. These are living examples of student learning throughout the unit.

Building this board starts when you begin to provoke students thinking about the topic you are beginning to study. Students will look at artifacts and ask questions about what they are seeing. They activate prior knowledge and share this with others in a knowledge building circle.

Type of Display Board

This is an example of the board that I use for my wonder wall. It is a trifold board. One side is for my fourth graders and the other side for my fifth graders.

Sometimes I use these trifold boards and other times I just use my bulletin boards but this is great if you are lacking wall space and it also works to move around the classroom for students to use when you are working with them.

Here are some of the wonder wall boards from my classroom

Artifacts

I use artifacts to help provoke conversations and interests in a topic at the beginning of a unit. Artifacts can be many things

Most of the time I use pictures that I print out in colour. Especially if I don't have access to real life objects.

If I have easily accessible artifacts like my rock collection or some small appliances from home I might use those as well.

The Role of Questions

To use a wonder wall at the beginning of an inquiry means that you provoke students thinking about a topic. Providing them with artifacts that gets them thinking.

Having them ask questions is the next step.

Students will take sticky notes and ask questions about what they see. Use these doodle notes in my resource library to help your students keep track of what they are thinking.

As students share thier background knowledge and their questions the board is built. These questions are the driving force behind your learning.

Group their questions into themes, use them to develp learning goals and success criteria and to find gaps in their knowledge that may require a teacher directed lesson to fill.

Put student questions beside the artifact or picture on the wonder wall and throughout the learning strive to answer these questions and keep track of unanswered questions.

It is through student questions that learning is constructed.

Lessons Learned

Another thing I learned while implementing my wonder wall is that when students ask questions I really really want to answer them. I want to share my knowledge and have them soak it all in and teach them something. I am a teacher!! this is what I do!! I know stuff and teach about it!! STOP STOP STOP. I had to get myself to stop!

This was not what inquiry was about. Sure, I am a teacher, but I am not as powerful or as knowledgable as Google. I mentally needed to stop myself and concentrate on not answering their questions but to ask them to add their questions to the Wonder Wall and allow them to figure out the answers for themselves.

I knew that I was going to lead them through my lessons to these answers but I needed to stop just giving them the information. They would now have to start working for this information because I was not going to give them an easy way out.

Sure later on in the unit, we would have a discussion on certain topics and I would explain different concepts to them. BUT we did this together. I was not teaching them I was facilitating their learning.

Giving them the tools to let them find the answers to their questions on their own.

Results

And you know what...a funny thing happened.

They started learning faster than I had expected.

They took those questions home and found out the answers to them. They would read books during independent time and find the answers to our questions. They were discussing these things with their parents at home.

It was amazing to see how excited they were about learning these concepts which in turn also allowed our discussion at school to become more vibrant and engaging.

Sure there were times when a teacher directed lesson was necessary especially in the technical aspects of the units. But overall it was great to see them apply their learning in new and interesting ways.

If you would like to see how I made my Wonder Wall for these units check out my Video below

I now include wonder wall cards in most of my units to help teachers get started with artifacts for students and teachers to use to use as a provocation to get started with the units that they are teaching. If you are interested in the cards that were used for the wonder wall on the video you can get them in the two units below.

Learn more about inquiry. Next up in my inquiry series

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Talking Inquiry: Making a Wonder Wall | Madly Learning

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Full ADI Labs and Other Inquiry Resources

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Inquiry-Based Learning Resources and Downloads

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Inquiry-Based Learning Resources and Downloads

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Resources and Downloads to Facilitate Inquiry-Based Learning

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Find information, strategies, protocols, and tools to promote curiosity and engage students in asking questions, thinking critically, and solving problems.

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Engineers are working to change life for the better in ways that we can hardly even imagine. Check out some of the cool ideas they are bringing to life.

1. The Hyperloop-Travel Faster than a Jet?

What if you could travel at 700 mph? What if you had to be in an airless tube? This is what the new Hyperloop proposes. By combining the engineering of trains, air hockey, and t-shirt guns, the Hyperloop promises to get passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco (about 400 miles) in 30 minutes. The Hyperloop will reach unprecedented speeds by eliminating the two primary drags on movement: friction and gravity. The airless tube eliminates any friction from wind. A cushion of air levitates the Hyperloop car (like an air hockey puck), escaping gravity and getting rid of ground friction. The result? A world in which Beyoncé fans from Los Angeles can go to an evening concert in Chicago and get home in time to get a good night's sleep.

2. Human Exoskeleton-Freedom from Wheelchairs

Sasha broke her spine in a mountain biking accident. If she tries to stand, her body spasms violently. Today, she can walk across a room without a walker or even a crutch-- thanks to the Ekso Bionics exoskeleton (called Ekso). The exoskeleton is a computerized mechanical framework that fits around her back and legs, supporting her body from the outside and increasing her strength, mobility, and endurance. Inspiration and design ideas for human exoskeletons come from insects. This same technology is being used to make soldiers stronger in battle and to allow humans to do the work of a machine. For Sasha, the software turns her small gestures into actual forward movement. This allows her muscles to relearn the movements of walking without worrying about supporting her full weight. Her goal: To one day cross the room and leave the Ekso on the other side.

3. The Makani Energy Kite-Generating energy at 1,200 feet

Anyone who has flown a kite knows this simple rule: the higher you go, the better the wind. This is the theory behind the Makani Airborne Wind Turbine. Unlike a traditional wind turbine whose three enormous blades are thrust high into the air atop a 328-foot tower, the Makani uses one fixed-wing glider attached to a tether (like a kite) that pilots itself in the same pattern as a spinning turbine. The tether allows the kite to fly much higher than a turbine to reach much stronger and more consistent winds. The energy it creates then travels down the tether and into the power grid. At one-tenth the mass and half the cost of a regular turbine-but generating the same amount of power--the Makani makes generating energy seem like child's play.

4. The HoloLens-Say Goodbye to Computer Screens

Do you get tired of staring at a screen? What if all your screens could be replaced by a pair of sunglasses? With its HoloLens, Microsoft places the content of your computer or phone into your world in 3-D. The lens uses cameras and sensors to map the space around you and track your movements. It also tracks your eye movements to follow your gaze and change what you see. So your living room is still there, but your files and your music are there too. Playing Pokemon Go? Now you will see them right next to you in 3-D. Want to watch your favorite show on a big screen? The HoloLens will give you a 100-inch screen, no wall space needed. Your virtual world and your real world can finally become the same place.

5. Solar Sunflowers-Powering a House Near You

The sun is one of our greatest sources of energy, and nothing harnesses it more efficiently than plants. How does a sunflower make sure it gets the best sun, even as the sun moves across the sky? It simply turns to follow the sun. How do trees gather enough energy to sustain their size? They reach up towards the sun with thousands of leaves, all of which pull in energy from the sun. Engineers are turning these lessons from nature into new solar-power technologies. Solar sunflowers maximize exposure by following the sun. Photovoltaic, or solar, trees are tall, artistic structures with multiple branches supporting solar panels. They allow for more panels in a much smaller area, and also pull energy in more efficiently by placing and angling the leaves strategically. Beauty and efficiency? An engineer's dream.

Special thanks to the United Engineering Foundation for sponsoring this page.

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A Framework for K-12 Science Education:Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

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A Framework for K-12 Science Education:Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

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Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current and future challenges. The United States' position in the global economy is declining, in part because U.S. workers lack fundamental knowledge in these fields. To address the critical issues of U.S. competitiveness and to better prepare the workforce, A Framework for K-12 Science Education proposes a new approach to K-12 science education that will capture students' interest and provide them with the necessary foundational knowledge in the field.

A Framework for K-12 Science Education outlines a broad set of expectations for students in science and engineering in grades K-12. These expectations will inform the development of new standards for K-12 science education and, subsequently, revisions to curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development for educators. This book identifies three dimensions that convey the core ideas and practices around which science and engineering education in these grades should be built. These three dimensions are: crosscutting concepts that unify the study of science through their common application across science and engineering; scientific and engineering practices; and disciplinary core ideas in the physical sciences, life sciences, and earth and space sciences and for engineering, technology, and the applications of science. The overarching goal is for all high school graduates to have sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on science-related issues, be careful consumers of scientific and technical information, and enter the careers of their choice.

A Framework for K-12 Science Education is the first step in a process that can inform state-level decisions and achieve a research-grounded basis for improving science instruction and learning across the country. The book will guide standards developers, teachers, curriculum designers, assessment developers, state and district science administrators, and educators who teach science in informal environments.

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A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

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There is perhaps no other career that spans so many areas-healthcare, agriculture, entertainment, business, and more. Check out the many and varied ways the work of engineers is making a difference in all our lives.

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Soil Weathering Processes | Soils 4 Teachers

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Weathering is the breakdown of rocks and minerals into soils. Rocks are broken into three major groups: sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. The rock cycle illustrates how these different types of rocks form. An animated version of the rock cycle can be found at the British Geological Society website.

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Next Generation Science Standards: Introduction to Three Dimensional Learning

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Next Generation Science Standards: Introduction to Three Dimensional Learning

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Automatic Cat Feeder: Q&A with Nate | Design Squad

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Engineers solve real world problems. Watch as Design Squad host Nate sketches ideas to solve his cat feeding dilemma! For more Design Squad Nation, go to http://pbskids.org/designsquad

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Next Generation Science Standards by NSTA

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The NSTA Next Generation Science Standards Hub offers information, resources, news, professional learning opportunities, and expert advice in understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS

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S8P1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the structure and properties of matter.

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Integrated Engineering Tasks

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Students and researchers at the University of Bath's Faculty of Engineering & Design discuss what engineering is and why it's a great area to study and work in.

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What's an Engineer? Crash Course Kids #12.1

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