Lesson 1: Collaborative Design Thinking
Grade Level: 6-12
Estimated Time for Activity: 60 minutes
Learning Outcomes and NGSS
Climate Engineering Teaching Module
Expected Learning Outcome
Content Knowledge
- Students will learn the evidence of climate change and contributors to global warming;
- Students will learn the concept of climate engineering as one of the solutions to reduce global warming.
Skills
- Students will practice their skills of working collaboratively.
- Students will practice their skills of design thinking.
- Students will be asked to design solutions to solve problems and revise solutions based on feedback, specific criteria and constraints.
NGSS
MS-ESS3-5 Earth and Human Activity Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.
MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
MS-LS2-5 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services
MS-ETS1-1 Engineering Design. Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
HS-ETS1-1 Engineering Design. Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
HS-LS2-7 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
HS-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.
HS-ESS2-2 Earth's Systems. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth's surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.
HS-ESS3-4 Earth and Human Activity. Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.