Nature has a way to provide solutions that help animals survive. What can we learn from nature that helps us mediate the impact of natural disasters?

Today Zach visits Roper Mountain to learn what he would need to be able to scale a wall and uses technology to save a home from water run off.

6-ESS3-2. Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to identify patterns, which help forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

What differentiates a physical change from a chemical change? Today Zach visits Roper Mountain for some exciting and explosive examples of both!

7-PS1-2. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.

Brassfield & Gorrie

From the foundation to the roof, science is vital to the production of materials used in buildings. Join Mitch today as he learns more about how necessary science is to the building industry.

6.S.1B. Technology is any modification to the natural world created to fulfill the wants and needs of humans. The engineering design process involves a series of iterative steps used to solve a problem and often leads to the development of a new or improved technology. 7.S.1: The student will use the science and engineering practices, including the processes and skills of scientific inquiry, to develop understandings of science content. 8.S.1A. Conceptual Understanding: The practices of science and engineering support the development of science concepts, develop the habits of mind that are necessary for scientific thinking, and allow students to engage in science in ways that are similar to those used by scientists and engineers.

Kelly Mill Med Pro Middle School

Today Jeanine learns about acids and bases and chemical changes that take place when certain chemicals are mixed together.

Standard 7.P.2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the structure and properties of matter and that matter is conserved as it undergoes changes.
7.P.2B. Conceptual Understanding: Substances (such as metals or acids) are identified according to their physical or chemical properties. Changes to substances can either be physical or chemical. Many substances react chemically with other substances to form new substances with different properties. According to the law of conservation of matter, total mass does not change in a chemical reaction.

Ellison Technologies

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.

ETS2.B: Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World
The uses of technologies and limitations on their use are driven by individual or societal needs, desires, and values; by the findings of scientific research; and by differences in such factors as climate, natural resources, and economic conditions.
7.S.1B. Conceptual Understanding: Technology is any modification to the natural world created to fulfill the wants and needs of humans. The engineering design process involves a series of iterative steps used to solve a problem and often leads to the development of a new or improved technology.

National Weather Service/Noaa

What is the difference between light-colored clouds and dark-colored clouds? How do we know when the weather is going to become severe? Today Jeanine visits the National Weather Service office to learn more about weather conditions and what causes them.

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
The complex patterns of the changes and the movement of water in the atmosphere, determined by winds, landforms, and ocean temperatures and currents, are major determinants of local weather patterns.

ESS2.D: Weather and Climate
Because these patterns are so complex, weather can only be predicted
probabilistically.

ESS2.D: Weather and Climate
The tilt of the earth’s rotational axis causes a pattern of uneven heating and cooling that changes seasonally and establishes global patterns of climate and weather.

Weather and climate are influenced by interactions involving sunlight, the ocean, the atmosphere, ice, landforms, and living things. These interactions vary with latitude, altitude, and local and regional geography, all of which can affect oceanic and atmospheric flow patterns.