Challenge Question

Standards

• [Next Generation Science Standards] 4-PS3-4 - Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
• [Next Generation Science Standards] 3-5.AF.6.4 - Apply scientific ideas to solve design problems.
• [Next Generation Science Standards] 3-PS2-4 - Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.
• [Next Generation Science Standards] 4-PS3-2 - Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
• [Next Generation Science Standards] 1-PS4-4 - Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

Competencies

• Effective Communication - Students practice listening to understand, communicating with empathy, and share their learning through exhibiting, presenting and reflecting on their work.
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Students consider a variety of innovative approaches to address and understand complex questions that are authentic and important to their communities.
• Content Expertise - Students develop key competencies, skills, and dispositions with ample opportunities to apply knowledge and engage in work that matters to them.
• Collaboration - Students co-design projects with peers, exercise shared-decision making, strengthen relational agency, resolve conflict, and assume leadership roles.
• Self Directed Learning - Students use teacher and peer feedback and self-reflection to monitor and direct their own learning while building self knowledge both in and out of the classroom.