Lesson 3: Climate Engineering Designs
Grade Level: 6-12
Estimated Time for Activity: 90 minutes
Learning Outcomes and NGSS
Climate Engineering Teaching Module
Expected Learning Outcome
Content Knowledge
- Students will apply knowledge from current climate engineering research to improve their personal designs.
- Students will be required to adjust their design to meet specific criteria.
Skills
- Students will learn how to develop engineering schematics/blueprints to illustrate their technology and its features.
- Students will develop their engineering thinking.
NGSS
MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing human impact on the environment.
MS-ETS1-2 Engineering Design. Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
HS-ESS3-2 Earth and Human Activity. Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.
HS-ESS3-4. Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.
HS-ETS1-3 Engineering Design. Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.