In this activity, students create a "web" to identify and demonstrate the interactions among the living and non-living parts of an environment. This information allows students to better understand what an environment is and to also consider how engineers use teamwork to solve problems.

Students select a rectilinear figure, sketch it, and show how they can decompose the figure into smaller rectangles using a horizontal or vertical line. Students write a multiplication equation to find the area of each of the smaller rectangles in square units, add the products to find the total area of the figure, and repeat the steps with other rectilinear figures provided.

Air is one of Earth's most precious resources, and we need to take care of it in order to preserve the environment and protect human health. To this end, students develop their understanding of visible air pollutants with an incomplete combustion demonstration, a "smog in a jar" demonstration, and by building simple particulate matter collectors.

In this lesson, students will learn that minerals are a necessary part of our diet. They will learn that different minerals have different functions in the body. More specifically, they will discover that iron is necessary to carry oxygen around the body. In the associated activity, students will design a process that removes the most iron from the cereal.

In this activity, students investigate the simulated use of solid rocket fuel by using an antacid tablet. Students observe the effect that surface area and temperature has on chemical reactions. Also, students compare the reaction time using two different reactants: water and vinegar. Finally, students report their results using a bar graph.

This task presents students with some creative geometric ways to represent the fraction one half. The goal is both to appeal to students' visual intuition while also providing a hands on activity to decide whether or not two areas are equal.

Students build and observe a simple aneroid barometer to learn about changes in barometric pressure and weather forecasting.

Learn to use the information presented in scaled bar graphs to solve one-step “how many more” and “how many fewer” problems.

In this lesson, students investigate sources of fossil fuels, particularly oil. Students will learn how engineers and scientists look for oil by taking core samples from a model of the Earth. Also, students will explore and analyze oil consumption and production in the United States and around the world.

The students will explore the impacts of aluminum cans and the process of recycling.  The task requires the students to gather and graph data about aluminum can use as well as interpret the data collected.  At the conclusion of the lesson, the students develop a plan for future action in regards to recycling.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students interpret the data in a bar graph and use it to answer the questions about the graph in this interactive resource.

This lesson allows students to learn what bar graphs are used for, how to interpret the data presented, and how to organize their own data using bar graphs.

In this activity, students will conduct a survey to identify the environmental issues (in their community, their country and the world) for which people are concerned. They will tally and graph the results. Also, students will discuss how surveys are important when engineers make decisions about environmental issues.

Students explore the concept of "reducing" solid waste and how it relates to product packaging and engineering advancements in packaging materials. They read about and evaluate the highly publicized packaging decisions of two major U.S. corporations. Then they evaluate different ways to package items in order to minimize the environmental impact, while considering issues such as cost, availability, product attractiveness, etc. In addition, students explore "hydropulping" and consider its use as a recycling process.

Students learn about the unique challenges astronauts face while eating in outer space. They explore different food choices and food packaging. Students learn about the engineering design process, and then, as NASA engineering teams, they design and build original model devices to help astronauts eat in a microgravity environment --- their own creative devices for food storage and meal preparation.

Using simple math, students will figure out their lung capacity by breathing into a bottle filled with water and measuring the volume of water displaced.

This resource is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. This document is the About the Cluster document created by the authors of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks. This document should be read prior to teaching this cluster. This document is not remixable since the document has been written by creators of the NC2ML Instructional Frameworks.

The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate Newton's third law of motion which states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction through a small wooden car. The Newton cars show how action/reaction works and how the mass of a moving object affects the acceleration and force of the system. Subsequently, the Newton cars provide students with an excellent analogy for how rockets actually work.

This interactive graphing tool is called People Graph, and it is a polling tool that represents data visually with people icons. Take a poll of your classmates and then enter options and then the associated number of people who chose each option. Answer multiple choice questions generated by the program when completed. You can also print out your people graph. Change the X and Y axes and title by typing over the text already there.