sses and LifeOrganisms: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
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Your Microworld
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Design Your Model
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Feedback Requested
Explain Your Model
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Critique and Feedback
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Microworld Model
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Curator’s Commentary
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Critique of Peer’s Model
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What is this project about?
Essential Question
What visible and invisible relationships connect the different pieces of an ecosystem?
How can we use models to make invisible parts of an ecosystem easy to see and understand?
Enduring Understanding
The movement of energy and matter is part of many ecological processes.
Models can be used to show systems and their interactions – such as inputs, processes, and outputs – and energy and matter flows within systems.
Models can be used to describe things that can and cannot be seen, as well as show the relationships between key parts. All models have limitations and focus on only part of a complex system. Â
Description
Science museums engage visitors with clear, accessible, and interesting representations of science. For this project, you are hired by a local science museum to create a multimedia installation for their new exhibit, Microworlds. The goal of Microworlds is to help visitors understand the visible and invisible processes that take place in all ecosystems. The Microworlds exhibit includes several simple but completely functioning ecosystems. You build one of these ecosystems as part of your installation. Each installation combines a Microworld with explanations and models of how matter and energy move through ecosystems. Your goal is to create an accurate, engaging installation that will deepen visitors’ understandings of how ecosystems function.
Cognitive Skills
ModelingMaking Connections and InferencesEvaluating ArgumentsConstructing an Evidence-based Explanation
Focus Areas - Power
Ecosystems: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
Focus Areas - Additional
Ecosystems: Relationships
Focus Areas - Other
Ecosystems: BiodiversityEnergy in Chemical Processes and LifeOrganisms: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
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Project Overview
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New Feedback
Your Microworld
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2
Design Your Model
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3
Feedback Requested
Explain Your Model
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4
Critique and Feedback
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Microworld Model
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Curator’s Commentary
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Critique of Peer’s Model
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What is this project about?
Essential Question
What visible and invisible relationships connect the different pieces of an ecosystem?
How can we use models to make invisible parts of an ecosystem easy to see and understand?
Enduring Understanding
The movement of energy and matter is part of many ecological processes.
Models can be used to show systems and their interactions – such as inputs, processes, and outputs – and energy and matter flows within systems.
Models can be used to describe things that can and cannot be seen, as well as show the relationships between key parts. All models have limitations and focus on only part of a complex system. Â
Description
Science museums engage visitors with clear, accessible, and interesting representations of science. For this project, you are hired by a local science museum to create a multimedia installation for their new exhibit, Microworlds. The goal of Microworlds is to help visitors understand the visible and invisible processes that take place in all ecosystems. The Microworlds exhibit includes several simple but completely functioning ecosystems. You build one of these ecosystems as part of your installation. Each installation combines a Microworld with explanations and models of how matter and energy move through ecosystems. Your goal is to create an accurate, engaging installation that will deepen visitors’ understandings of how ecosystems function.
Cognitive Skills
ModelingMaking Connections and InferencesEvaluating ArgumentsConstructing an Evidence-based Explanation
Focus Areas - Power
Ecosystems: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
Focus Areas - Additional
Ecosystems: Relationships
Focus Areas - Other
Ecosystems: BiodiversityEnergy in Chemical Processes and LifeOrganisms: Matter Cycling and Energy Flow
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