Nashville Zoo

Today Aubrey learns that spraying is not a skunk’s first line of protection from other animals. She also meets Wednesday a baby vulture at the Nashville Zoo.

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.

Weather at WKRN

Sunshine to precipitation, Aubrey learns how the water cycle brings us rain and snow and just how numbers are used to predict the weather.

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.

Quonset Hut Studios

How does a sound wave become music? Join Aubrey to learn how computer science turns invisible sound waves into your favorite songs.

8.PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer 3) Evaluate the role that waves play in different communication systems.

Lichterman Nature Center

Did you know that the forest is much like a high-rise hotel to the animals that live there? Today Chris meets some of these forest animals and learns whether they live upstairs or downstairs.

6.LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics 4) Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

VW

Warnings! Bells! Alarms! Watch Brian as he learns how to read the alarms and correct the issues that prevent the robots from doing their jobs.

Science and Engineering Practices Asking Questions and Defining Problems Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Harrison Bay Future Ready Center

Aubrey creates some useful gadgets with the coding lesson she experiences with Gig City Girls.

Influence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World ▪ The uses of technologies and any 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. (MS-PS2-1)