How can a builder make a house warm when the sun is shining and keep the house warm when it is not? Students learn about energy conversion as they work in teams.The teams make budget decisions about windows and flooring material in a home design as they build a passive solar house model to test, analyze, and redesign.
FEATURES
Provides teachers with modular 30�50 minute blocks of instruction
Total of 150-300 minutes of instruction time
All materials included for a collaborative classroom activity
Aligned and written to Standards
NGSS Standards
4-PS3-2:Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric current.
4-PS3-4: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
3�5-ETS1-1:Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3�5-ETS1-2:Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3�5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
KIT DESIGNED FOR GRADE 4. CONTAINS ALL MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR ACTIVITY.
FEATURES
Provides teachers with modular 30�50 minute blocks of instruction
Total of 150-300 minutes of instruction time
All materials included for a collaborative classroom activity
Aligned and written to Standards
NGSS Standards
4-PS3-2:Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric current.
4-PS3-4: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
3�5-ETS1-1:Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3�5-ETS1-2:Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3�5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
KIT DESIGNED FOR GRADE 4. CONTAINS ALL MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR ACTIVITY.
Oakley STEM Center Lending Library
https://www.tntech.edu/stem
155 W 7th Sthttps://www.tntech.edu/stem
Cookeville, 38505
USA
(931) 372-6573