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Cars and Trains Technology

by | Oct 20, 2023 | Missouri

National Transportation
How have engines progressed from muscle-powered to steam/gas powered to electric-powered? It helps to understand the evolution of engines to be able to dream about new and improved. Today, we visit the National Museum of Transportation to see some of the engines of the past and dream about the engines of the future.
ST.1.C.6-8 a. Describe how technological solutions to problems (e.g., storm water runoff, fiber optics, windmills, efficient car design, electronic trains without conductors, sonar, robotics, Hubble telescope) can have both benefits and drawbacks
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

Critical Thinking

by | Oct 20, 2023 | Missouri

Breakout KC
What do you do when you need to solve a problem or need to fix something and the internet isn’t there with an answer or a video to show the way? You take it a step at time, you eliminate what you know won’t work, in other words you use critical thinking. Today, see if you can help us out of an escape room.
6-8.ETS1.A 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.

Eclipse

by | Oct 19, 2023 | Alabama

Christenberry Planetarium
Today we visit Christenberry Planetarium to learn about the difference between annular and total eclipses the process of solar and lunar eclipses and safe ways to observe them.
Objective SCI.6.1.1: Define celestial bodies, lunar phases, solar and lunar eclipses, and tides (neap and spring).

Biosystems-Cahaba River

by | Oct 19, 2023 | Alabama

University of West Alabama / Cahaba Biodiversity Center

What state is the 5th most biodiverse geology? Alabama is! Join us today to learn about what gives this state so much biodiversity.

GRADE 7 – Life Science – Unity and DiversityObjective B.7.1: Define biosphere, biomes, ecosystem, community, population, and organisms.

SCI.7.6.1: Define ecosystem, population, and organism.
Objective

SCI.7.6.4: Describe an ecosystem and its components. 16. Construct an explanation based on evidence (e.g., cladogram, phylogenetic tree) for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms, including living fossils (e.g., alligator, horseshoe crab, nautilus, coelacanth).

Eclipses and Planets

by | Sep 23, 2023 | Tennessee

Dyer Observatory/Vanderbilt
8.ETS1: Engineering Design 2) Research and communicate information to describe how data from technologies (telescopes, spectroscopes, satellites, and space probes) provide information about objects in the solar system and universe.
Join Aubrey at the Dyer Observatory to learn more about rare eclipses and the planets in our solar system.