Students will practice developing a topic with reason and evidence.
Set goals and check-in points for the school year by writing an email to yourself, then scheduling it to send at a later date. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Through this concluding lesson and its associated activity, students experience one valuable and often overlooked skill of successful scientists and engineers communicating your work and ideas. They explore the importance of scientific communication, including the basic, essential elements of communicating new information to the public and pitfalls to avoid. In the associated activity, student groups create posters depicting their solutions to the unit's challenge question accurate, efficient methods for detecting cancer-causing genes using optical biosensors which includes providing a specific example with relevant equations. Students are also individually assessed on their understanding of refraction via a short quiz. This lesson and its associated activity conclude the unit and serve as the culminating Go Public phase of the Legacy Cycle, providing unit review and summative assessment.
Learn how to write professional emails for specific workplace situations. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Share the results of a community project with an audience by creating a slideshow presentation. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Connect with coworkers, business partners, and contacts from anywhere using Google Meet. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Design and create a website to stay in touch with members of a group. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Create a visual display of an idea in a presentation using data and supporting evidence to persuade your audience. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
The goal of this activity is for students to develop visual literacy. They learn how images are manipulated for a powerful effect and how a photograph can make the invisible (pollutants that form acid rain) visible (through the damage they cause). The specific objective is to write captions for photographs.
Learn to communicate more efficiently through emails, internet search, and digital documents. Time to complete: 4-9 hours
A large part of engineering involves presenting products, concepts, and proposals to others in order to gain approval, funding, contracts, etc. The purpose of this activity is to fine-tune students' presentation skills while allowing them to independently investigate one type of power production to meet the needs of their region of choice. Students also learn problem solving skills in examining the advantages and disadvantages of particular methods of power generation.
Write appropriate communications for different audiences by customizing language and style. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Communicate the important details of a project to the public by writing a press release in Google Docs. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes
Write the lyrics for your own song using Google Docs. Time to complete: 45-90 minutes