Vanderbilt Dyer Obsevatory
Today Finley visits the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory to learn about how telescopes work to help us explore space.
“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.”
TVA
Today Mitch visits TVA to learn how natural gas is converted to thermal energy then mechanical energy and ultimately into electricity that we use in our homes.
“6.PS3: Energy
4) Conduct an investigation to demonstrate the way that heat (thermal energy) moves among objects through radiation, conduction, or convection.6.ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
2) Investigate and compare existing and developing technologies that utilize renewable and alternative energy resources.”
Streamworks
Do you know that drones are actually robots? Join Zach at Streamworks today to explore some of the programming and flight aspects of drones.
CCP.4 – Construct optimized models of computing systems. ETS2: Links Among Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science
Hands On! Discovery Center
Todayl Zach has so much fun at Hands On! Discovery Center as he learns how tesla coils create electricity and music. Then he visits the fossil lab where fossil pieces are being put together to rebuild a mastadon, rhino, tapers and a new species.
“6.PS3: Energy 1) Analyze the properties and compare sources of kinetic, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electric potential, chemical, and thermal energy.8.PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions 1) Design and conduct investigations depicting the relationship between magnetism and electricity in electromagnets, generators, and electrical motors, emphasizing the factors that increase or diminish the electric current and the magnetic field strength. 8.LS4: Biological Change: Unity and Diversity 1) Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change in life forms throughout Earth’s history.”
East Tennessee State University
Who likes spiders? Who’s afraid of spiders? Join Zach today at East Tennessee State University to learn about what we should like and what we should be wary of in spiders.
6.LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics 7) Compare and contrast auditory and visual methods of communication among organisms in relation to survival strategies of a population. 7.LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes 6) Develop an argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to explain how behavioral and structural adaptations in animals and plants affect the probability of survival and reproductive success.