Engineering Grand Challenges
8th Grade Quarter 1
- Engineering Grand Challenge: Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure
- Grade Level Task: Plan a sustainable urban transportation system.
- Georgia infrastructure report card
- National Infrastructure report
- VIDEO: Falling Apart: America's Neglected Infrastructure
- ELA: Essential Questions : Ms. Morgan's Weebly
What are the four transportation infrastructures in Georgia?
How could the state of transporation be improved in each of the 5 regions?
How can I analyze a text for specific details and purpose?
7th Grade Quarter 1
- Grade Level Task: Design a sustainable urban community
- Essential Questions
What basic needs does a community need to survive and thrive?
How do location, climate, and physical features affect population distribution and density? What are the effects of high population density on a region?
How EDP help to design and engineer structures that will be cognizant of these questions and the over challenge of Restoring and Improving Urban infrastructure, particularly planning a sustainable urban transportation system?
6th Grade Quarter 1
- Engineering Grand Challenge: Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure
- Grade Level Task: Design a sustainable urban living structure
- Essential Questions
Which natural materials are best suited for building sustainable structures?
How EDP help to design and engineer structures that will be cognizant of these questions and the over challenge of Restoring and Improving Urban infrastructure, particularly planning a sustainable urban transportation system?
8th Grade Quarter 2
Engineering Grand Challenge: Engineer Tools of Scientific Discovery