NGSS | Performance Expectation

HS-ETS1-4 classroom resources

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HS-ETS1-4 | Performance Expectation

Grades 9-12

Use a computer simulation to model the impact of proposed solutions to a complex real-world problem with numerous criteria and constraints on interactions within and between systems relevant to the problem.

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Community Immunity: A simulation-based exploration of vaccination choices

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8-12

Using simulations and role play, students explore how knowledge, social influences, access, and policy all influence whether individuals vaccinate. They then see how vaccination rates of a community determine whether an outbreak turns into an epidemic or gets stopped in its tracks.

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Lesson 1

In Lesson 1, students interact with the Community Immunity Simulation model. They make pathway decisions to set different criteria and contraints surrounding the potential for a community epidemic.

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Lesson 1

Your Choice, Their Risk: A Community Immunity Simulation

Lesson 2

Voices from the Polio Era: Documents of Fear, Hope & Choice

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1954 Polio Vaccine Trials

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Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions: How do we provide sustainable energy to communities?

Grades

9-13

Mā te rauhiringa tātou e ora: Powerful Solutions unit banner

Learn about the energy all around us through a hands-on power generating lab, a web app exploring resilient energy mixes, and stories about Māui’s innovation. In Te Reo Māori, the unit title translates to "It is through positive energy that we thrive." This unit connects to Māori leadership in self-sufficiency and sustainability as inspiration for the future of energy engineering!

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Lesson 2

In Lesson 2, students use a simulation that models power generation and consumption in a small community. By prioritizing efficiency, stability, cost, community values, or environmental impact students interact with the simulation to explore resource management.

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3 lessons and 6 supporting media items.

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