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Engineering Process

by | Oct 20, 2023 | North Carolina

Precision Swiss Products
How does an invention go from sketches on a napkin to a usable product? Zion visits Precision Swiss Products to learn about the engineering process and machines that make it possible.
68-CS-03 Systematically identify and fix problems with computing devices and components. 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems 68-

AP-03 Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures including nested loops and compound conditionals.

Body Heat Electricity

by | Oct 20, 2023 | North Carolina

NC State University
Can you imagine personal medical devices or your own electronics being powered by your body heat? Join Zion at NC State University to find out more about this cutting-edge research and development.
7.P.2 Understand forms of energy, energy transfer and transformation and conservation in mechanical systems.

Tagging Hummingbirds

by | Oct 20, 2023 | North Carolina

Weymouth Woods Nature Preserve
How can something that only weighs as much as a nickel be a huge inspiration to engineers and provide a great benefit to the environment? Join us at Weymouth Woods Nature Preserve as hummingbirds are studied and tagged.
8-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.

Physical Reactions and Chemical Reactions

by | Oct 20, 2023 | Missouri

Science City
What is the difference between a physical reaction and a chemical reaction? Join us today at Science City to find out and to see some explosive demonstrations.
6-8.PS1.A.2 Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. [Clarification Statement: Examples of reactions could include burning sugar or steel wool, fat reacting with sodium hydroxide, and mixing zinc with hydrogen chloride.]

ME.1.C.8.b Describe the physical and chemical properties (e.g., magnetic attraction, conductivity, melting point and boiling point, reactivity) of pure substances (elements or compounds) (e.g., copper wire, aluminum wire, iron, charcoal, sulfur, water, salt, sugar, sodium bicarbonate, galena, quartz, magnetite, pyrite) using appropriate senses and tools

Programmable Technology

by | Oct 20, 2023 | Missouri

Ellison Technology
Technology does more today than ever before and will continue to more as we move into the future. Today we learn about some of the programmable technology that creates instrumental pieces to our every day lives and how robots help perform tasks that help create a better quality of life for us.
ST.1.A.6-8 a. Explain how technological improvements, such as those developed for use in space exploration, the military, or medicine, have led to the invention of new products that may improve lives here on Earth