NOAA

Today Aubrey learns about extreme weather and helps launch a weather balloon.

6.ESS2: Earth’s Systems 5) Analyze and interpret data from weather conditions, weather maps, satellites, and radar to predict probable local weather patterns and conditions.
6) Explain how relationships between the movement and interactions of air masses, high and low pressure systems, and frontal boundaries result in weather conditions and severe storms.

Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory

Did you know that the light in the different colors of the rainbow also have different temperatures? What does this have to do with looking into the universe? Join Aubrey today at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory to learn about light and Comets.

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. 8.PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
1) Develop and use models to represent the basic properties of waves including frequency, amplitude, wavelength, and speed. 2) Compare and contrast mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves based on refraction, reflection,
transmission, absorption, and their behavior through a vacuum and/or various media.

GreenSpaces

Can I build my own electric car? Will homes of the future generate their own power and clean air environments? Today Chris gets a glimpse into the near future at Green Spaces.

6.ETS1: Engineering Design 6.ESS3 2)Investigate and compare existing and developing technologies that utilize renewable and alternative
energy resources. 7.ETS2: Links Among Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science 8.ETS1: Engineering Design
1) Develop a model to generate data for ongoing testing and modification of an electromagnet, a generator, and a motor such that an optimal design can be achieved.

New Way Aquaponics

What does dirty fish water have to do farming? Chris visits New Way Aquaponics to learn about indoor farming.

6.LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics 6.ESS3: Earth and Human Activity 1) Differentiate between renewable and nonrenewable resources by asking questions about their availability and sustainability. 6.LS4: Biological Change: Unity and Diversity
1) Explain how changes in biodiversity would impact ecosystem stability and natural resources.
2) Design a possible solution for maintaining biodiversity of ecosystems while still providing necessary human resources without disrupting environmental equilibrium. 7.LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
1) Develop a model to depict the cycling of matter, including carbon and oxygen, including the flow of energy among biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem.

Univeristy of Memphis

Why did Tennessee begin to study earthquakes? Are we on a fault line? What magnitude earthquake might cause buildings to collapse? Chris gets answers to these questions and more today at the University of Memphis.

8.ESS2: Earth’s Systems 5) Construct a scientific explanation using data that explains the gradual process of plate tectonics accounting for A) the distribution of fossils on different continents, B) the occurrence of earthquakes, and C) continental and ocean floor features (including mountains, volcanoes, faults, and trenches).

Tennessee Tech

How do chemists study matter and the changes it undergoes? What do magnets have to do with the North Pole? Join Aubrey at Tennessee Tech to find out.

6.PS3: Energy 1) Analyze the properties and compare sources of kinetic, elastic potential, gravitational potential, electric potential, chemical, and thermal energy.

7.PS1: Matter and Its Interactions

8.PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions