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Grades
6 - 12
2
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2
Hours

Sustainable Future Cities

Design Challenge
Engineering
Use drafting programs to plan out a sustainable city design.

Concepts at a Glance

  • Learn about different aspects of sustainability and what makes a city sustainable.
  • Use drafting programs to plan out a sustainable city design.  
  • Use inquiry based learning and the engineering design cycle to solve a problem.  

Curriculum Connections

8

  • The relationship of microorganisms with living things.

9

  • Sustainability of systems.

10

  • Practical applications and implications of chemical processes.

11

  • Organic chemistry and its applications have significant implications for human health, society, and the environment (chemistry 11).
  • Resource stewardship (environmental science 11).

12

  • Human actions affect the quality of water and its ability to sustain life (environmental science 12).
  • Water quality parameters and bioindicators (environmental science 12).

Applied Technologies

Select, and as needed learn about, appropriate tools and technologies to extend their capability to complete a task

Identify the personal, social, and environmental impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of the choices they make about technology use

Identify how the land, natural resources, and culture influence the development and use of tools and technologies.

Drafting

  • technical drawing, including sketching techniques and manual drafting techniques
  • elements of plans and drawings
  • simple computer-aided drafting programs

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