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Kathleen OConnor-Seeds in Space
Project Overview Part 1: Define
Teacher(s) Name(s): Kathleen O'Connor
Name of Project
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What do we need to grow plants in space? |
Duration: 3 weeks
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Subject/Course:
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8th Grade Science |
Grade Level: 8
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Other subject areas to be included, if any:
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Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts |
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Project Idea
Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem:
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The project will investigate methods of growing seeds in space. This includes discovering an efficient way to provide the plant with water, food and a growth chamber. Students will work with a experimental group of seeds that have travelled to space and a control group of seeds that have not travelled to space.
Students will create a growth chamber and develop a watering and feeding process that will maximize growth of plants.
Students will evaluate the success of their design by comparing the control and experimental group.
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Driving Questions |
How can we grow food for astronauts who are traveling long distances in space? |
Content and Skills Standards to be addressed: |
Earth,Biology and Physics Science Standards Michigan High School Curriculum:
EI.1 Scientific Inquiry
E4.p1 Water Cycle
E5.1 The Earth in Space
BI.1 Scientific Reflection and Social Implications
L2.p3 Plants as producers(prerequisite)
L2.p4 Animals as consumers (prerequisite)
B2.1 Energy Transfer and Growth
B2.5x Energy Transfer
P3.1 Basic Forces in Nature
P3.6 Gravitational Interactions
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21st Century Skills
to be taught and assessed (T+A) or that will encouraged (E) by projectwork, but not taught or assessed:
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Collaboration |
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Presentation |
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Critical Thinking
Laboratory Investigation
Engineering Design
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Presentation Audience: |
Culminating Products and Performances |
Completed Growth Chambers, Written Lab Reports including Graphs and Charts. Students will present their growth chambers and results to their peer group. The audience for this group will include peers, faculty and DSC planetarium staff. |
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Part 2: Design
"Grabber" to launch inquiry & generate interest: |
How do Astronauts grow food during a long space trip? |
Assessments: |
Formative Assessments:
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Growth chamber design. Seed growth project proposal.
Daily check lists for project completion
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Summative Assessments:
(End of Project)
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Completed growth chamber and results from plant growth experiment. Evaluated with instructor created rubric.
Presentation of results with student designed rubric.
Results explained in a written format using graphs and charts. Evaluated with student created rubric.
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Other Product(s) or Performance(s), with rubric: |
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Peer Evaluation |
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Self-Evaluation |
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Debriefing
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(Individual, Group, and/or Whole Class) |
Students will debrief daily within their work groups. Students will debrief major components as a whole class. Presentations will be debriefed by audience participants |
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Resources Needed |
On-site people, facilities: Science Classroom, DSC Planetarium staff |
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Equipment: Materials to build growth chambers, space seeds from NASA, |
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Materials:Soil, water, space seeds, plastic containers, plant stakes, ties, water, plant food. |
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Community resources: NASA space seed program, DSC Planetarium staff. |
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Project Teaching and Learning Guide
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Knowledge and Skills Needed by Students
to successfully complete culminating products and performances, and do well on summnative assessments
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Scaffolding/Materials/Lessons to be Provided
by the project teacher, other teachers, experts, mentors, community members--Describe the active teaching needed to support learning
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Students will need to understand how plants grow and produce food. |
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Proper writing technique. |
Students will need to know how human bodies use plants to get energy. |
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Math skills-Measuring,plan designs |
Students will use the scientific method to investigate .what plants need to grow effectively and will use control and experimental groups to test that theory |
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Project Calendar (Project should be 1 or more weeks)
Project Start Date:
Run Experiment
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Introduce Space Seeds |
Discuss needs of plants in space |
Divide into work teams. |
Design rubrics |
Begin growth chamber and experimental design |
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Continue growth chamber and experimental design |
Peer review and critique of experimental design |
Peer review and critique of experimental design |
Design reevaluation and final group plan |
Final project plan due |
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