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This lesson uses the students’ personal assets by relating the concept of reflection to familiar cultural trends. In addition, students will connect their knowledge of social media filters to the idea of mathematical reflections. Students will see many images that are examples of real-life reflections. This lesson incorporates real world connections during the introductory activity. Reflections are all around in the real world. Key Terms: engineering, groups, developing, 3D printing, robotics, physics, CAD, project, makerspace The class will test the final product and collect and analyze data in multiple environments. Each group will be assigned a different section of the engineering design process for the ROAVEE. During this project, students will collaborate on a design and create a product to test.

Over the course of many weeks, students will create a Remotely Operated Amphibious Vehicle for Environmental Exploration (ROAVEE) by utilizing the engineering design process. Oh, The Places You’ll Go… To Do Science with ROAVEE (.pdf, 548.7kb)

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Students will learn how to write proofs, which will help them organize their thinking and understand how to justify what they are doing. Logic is used across domains and is necessary for everyday functioning. Writing proofs allows students to practice their logic skills. Thus, students will be engaged with proofs in the form of a game to engage their attention. These rules can be used to justify certain moves. The lesson has an activity that uses the game of Uno to introduce proofs. Understanding the characteristics of polygons will help students to describe the world around them. Polygons are all around students in the world (architecture, art, etc.). In this lesson, students recall their knowledge of polygons which will catch their attention because it allows them to draw from what they know, which is a different means of expression than is typically used. Then students will examine parts of a sine wave such as the period, amplitude, and asymptote which will allow them to identify the parts of cosine, cosecant, secant, tangent, and cotangent graphs. The lesson will launch by recognizing sinusoidal waves in the real world such as visible waves. Students will learn to recognize the graphs which will be important in future lessons as well as in other disciplines. In this lesson students will explore how to graph trigonometric graphs and identify the period, amplitude, and asymptotes. Graphing the Trigonometric Functions (.pdf, 3mb) The data reviewed in this lesson come from a data set collected about women who came in continual contact with radioactive materials, which were used in Oak Ridge laboratories. At the same time, students will investigate, research, and write about the effects of overexposure to radium, which can cause mutations in the human body. This lesson will allow students to use career-related, real-world data from the DOE’s Comprehensive Epidemiologic Database Resource (CEDR) to improve math skills. Radium Girls: A CEDR Lesson Plan (.pdf, 1.2mb) Lastly, the students will be challenged to plan and carry out an investigation of the life cycle of a plant by growing a plant from a seed and recording its changes over a period of time. Students will then organize picture cards of the seed germination process in order and detail what is occurring at each step. In this lesson, students will familiarize themselves with the germination process through videos, observations, questions, and sorting/analysis of seeds. Resources for K-12 Teachers and Students.Students will use UV beads and expose them to UV light to determine the level of exposure through each different type and SPF level of sunscreen. Students will work together in small groups of three to four and practice using the scientific method to create a methodology that tests the effectiveness of different sunscreens to protect people from ultraviolet radiation.

Students will learn the basic properties of waves and light. In this lesson, students will learn how they can protect themselves against the harmfulness of ultraviolet (UV) radiation and interactions of light. Whether it be living in a sunny place, vacation, or just laying on your porch tanning in the summer, students are constantly being exposed to the sun’s harmful radiation. Featured Activity: Don’t Get Burnt (.pdf, 2.2mb)

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