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In the United States, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) lay out disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts that students should master in preparation for college and careers. Through a project with Achieve, Inc. and the New York Hall of Science, Teachers TryScience is providing a growing set of lessons that reflect some of the shifts in the NGSS, along with resources that will support you in aligning your own lessons to NGSS.
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THINK: The Process of Innovation
Using the THINK app (free for iPad and 10" Android tablets), students will explore how progress is shaped through a common and systematic approach that follows a five-step process of Seeing, Mapping, Understanding, Believing and Acting (SMUBA). Your students will explore the process of innovation and participate in as many as three units, featuring hands-on lessons that will to help them become innovators in their own right and to take actions that can help them become forward-thinking citizens of the world.
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Apr 20 2011
Source: TeachEngineerin...
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In this design-based lesson, students study flood dynamics as they modify a riverbed with blockages...
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Jun 29 2015
Source: NYSCI
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Student will answer the driving question:
How can the impact of future flooding events be...
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Oct 24 2017
Source: Australian Museum
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This lesson is the second in a series of lessons about Australian frogs. This lesson asks students...
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Mar 20 2011
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Students investigate the life cycle of an engineered product and then suggest ways to reduce the...
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Jun 08 2011
Source: biomimicryinstitute
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Students design a shelter, including physical structure, heating and/or cooling mechanisms, an...
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Jul 31 2015
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In this lesson, students will use a particulate air pollution model to observe phenomena. They will...
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Mar 20 2011
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In this inquiry-based lesson, students build particulate matter collectors to discover which local...
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Apr 11 2013
Source: NYSCI
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In this lesson, students will use the "Seeing" portion of the THINK app to understand the...
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May 29 2013
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In this lesson, students will learn about systems, compare and contrast the interactions within...
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Nov 19 2012
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In this lesson, students will be introduced to the science of epidemiology, encouraged to think...
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Apr 11 2013
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In this lesson, students will use the Understanding part of the THINK app to examine systems to...
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May 29 2013
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In this lesson, students will understand the importance of analyzing the local food system,...
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Nov 19 2012
Source: NYSCI
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In this lesson, students will recognize that the term “map” does not just correspond to...
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Apr 11 2013
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In this lesson, students will be creating actual useful climate change vulnerability assessment...
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May 29 2013
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In this lesson, students will think critically about how to display and present data clearly and...