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Third undergraduate design studio. Introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and natural world. Students learn to build appropriately through analysis of landscape and climate for a chosen site and conceptualize design decisions through drawings and models. Studio deposit required. Mandatory lottery.
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- Arts
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
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Green Building and Design
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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Students learn about biomimicry and how engineers often imitate nature in the design of innovative new products. They demonstrate their knowledge of biomimicry by practicing brainstorming and designing a new product based on what they know about animals and nature.
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- Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary
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Animals and Insects
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Green Building and Design
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TeachEngineering
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SPARK follows sculptor Gary Stevens through his creative process, from harvesting unusual pieces of wood from ancient redwood forests through the painstaking work that produces his uniquely beautiful wood vessels. This Educator Guide is about the history and tradition of wood carving.
- Subject:
- Arts
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
- SubTopics:
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Green
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KQED Education Network
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In the exploration of ways to use solar energy, students investigate the thermal energy storage capacities of different test materials to determine which to use in passive solar building design.
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- Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary
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Energy
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TeachEngineering
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In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, two solar cookers are tested against a control to see which can cook a "s'more" faster.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
- SubTopics:
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Green
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Teachers' Domain
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In this stills collage produced for Teachers' Domain, see several examples of everyday inventions that were either inspired by nature or are similar in form and function to plants or animals.
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- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
- SubTopics:
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Green Building and Design
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Teachers' Domain
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Students discover how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They learn how careful observation of nature becoming a nature detective, so to speak can lead to new innovations and products. In this activity, students reverse engineer a flower to glean design ideas for new products.
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- Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
- SubTopics:
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Green Building and Design
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TeachEngineering
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This lesson plan is intended to encourage learners to integrate the visual arts with science and appreciate nature. Students will create a round or square stepping stone using colored glass pieces with a mortar and sand mixture.
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- Arts, Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary
- SubTopics:
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Green
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LEARN NC Lesson Plans
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This activity is set up so that students will try to modify their model seed, so that it conforms to an assigned seed dispersal strategy.
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- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Secondary
- SubTopics:
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Green
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LEARN NC Lesson Plans
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Students will build a bubble-powered rocket and "blast it off." Students will examine the stress to their immediate environment, alternative choices, and the cost of repairing the damage. They will list other types of technology and possible environmental stress.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Secondary
- SubTopics:
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Industrial and Agricultural Impacts
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LEARN NC Lesson Plans
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A survey subject of current concepts, theories, and issues in strategic management of transportation organizations. Provides transportation logistics and engineering systems students with an overview of the operating context, leadership challenges, strategies, and management tools that are used in today's public and private transportation organizations. The following concepts, tools, and issues are presented in both public and private sector cases: alternative models of decision-making, strategic planning (e.g., use of SWOT analysis and scenario development), stakeholder valuation and analysis, government-based regulation and cooperation within the transportation enterprise, disaster communications, change management, and the impact of globalization.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
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Pollution
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Policy and Advocacy
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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When you walk or drive around your neighborhood what do the roofs look like? What if you lived in an area with a different climate, how would that effect the style of roof that you might find. This is an introductory activity to explore the advantages of different roof shapes for different climates or situations.
- Subject:
- Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Primary
- SubTopics:
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Climate Change
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Green Building and Design
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TeachEngineering
