Students will develop questions about the industry while looking at a photo of shark fins removed from living sharks, and eventually come to understand the environmental effects of shark finning.
This unit will introduce students to tectonic plates. Students will develop questions after viewing satellite images showing uplift along the coast of New Zealand from 2010 to 2016.
Students will engage in an electricity and circuitry STEM challenge to design a Wigglebot toy that can produce light and sound while still being able to wiggle.
Students will analyze the effect of forces on a brain model, gather collision data from tested materials, and go through the engineering process to design a new helmet.