Assignment: The International E-STEAEM Day Project for STEM Day (Friday May 9th)

Freedom Middle School - Online Professional Development
2014-04-13T00:18:48Z

Due: May 13, 2014 by 9:59pm

Project Standards: fc_benchmarksforscienceliteracy.pdf

principles_and_standards_for_school_mathematics.pdf

fc_nationaleducationaltechnologystandards.pdf

Project Overview: This year, Freedom Middle School will kick off its STEM program by participating in Georgia STEM Day on May 9th, 2014. Since we are a school for the world, we have chosen to theme our day International E-STEAEM Day (Education via Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Math). Therefore, the focus of our day will include the incorporation all of these elements using a problem solution based approach to learning. Basically, the kids will literally need to do all of the work. There will be no scaffolding of this assignment because we purposely want the students to use problem based learning to enhance their global thinking skills.

Project Objectives: At the end of this project the students will have a more engaged culturally aware perspective of the world and understand how they can use the STEM process to solve relevant real world problems.

Project Description: Each core classroom will be a specific city within a chosen country. Each teacher will randomly pick a country. After they have chosen their country, they will research a city in that country (it can be the city with the most need or the capital city), and then plan instruction for the week of the project to lead research, a paper, a future city design, and a presentation for the culminating event on Friday, May 9th. Please see below for a more detailed description.

Project Challenge: Your student's group project will use their research from at least one of the types of engineering below in order to solve problems in their perspective country. The evidence will manifest in a scale model of a future city designed by your class along with a dynamic 7 min presentation that will be presented to each class in your grade level. Please note that your presenters will not be able to use video in their presentations. We want them to rely on their scale model as the basis for their presentation. Teachers will only need 2-3 of your most articulate students to present the project because the other members will be rotating through the other classes to see their presentations on the day of the event, but every student must participated in the building, the research, and the design process.

Aerospace Engineering

Agricultural and Biosystems

Industrial Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering

Materials Science

Nuclear Engineering

Petroleum Engineering

Bioengineering and Biomedical

Chemical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Project Focus: Solving real industry problems in global teams

Basal Understandings

The students have to work on design in teams
| | | | |
What STEM is not . . . | |
| | | | |
4 separate and unrelated disciplines
Merely adding technology to the classroom

Engineering solves needs and wants.

Clean Water is the next currency of the next 100 years.

Scientists discover things for engineers to use to design.
| | | | | | |
Technologists apply the concepts of the engineers.
| | | | | | |

Mathematicians show the symbolic relationship of STEM.

Engineering Habits of Mind: | |
| | | | |
Communication | | | |
Collaboration | | | |
Optimism - keep trying and be persistent
Systems Thinking | | |
Ethical Thinking | | |
Creativity | | | |

Assignment-Sheet-for-Presentation.docx

Questions that should be answered in your project presentation are the following:

What type(s) of engineering were used in your project?

Which country and city did your class research?

What are the top three issues that you addressed in your project?

How did you propose to solve those problems with your future city design?

What resources will be available for the citizens of your city?

Where do your citizens live?

How do your citizens get around?

Where are the business located?

What are some innovative features and attributes of your city?

What are the benefits of visiting your city in the next 20 years?

Why is your city or country unique?

What are some neat things that you learned about the culture of your country or city?

Do you see the culture changing in the next 20 years?

The questions above are the basis of your International E-STEAEM day presentation. They will serve as the first part of your International E-STEAEM day presentation will take place in 2 parts. The morning session will host the presentations, and the afternoon sessions will host the celebrations and competitions. The students will need to decide if they would like to participate in the presentation development process and the global sports competitions or the presentation development process and the arts and entrepreneurship competition. The sports, arts, and entrepreneurship portion of the competition will begin after lunch at 12:40 p.m. Please note that only the 6th and 7th grade students can take part of the sports competitions because the 8th grade will have separate May Day Activities that involve sports competitions.

Country Explorations
Afghanistan
Algeria
Algeria
Argentina
Bhutan
Burma
Cameroon
China
Columbia
Congo
Croatia
Cuba
Eitreia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iran
Iraq
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Liberia
Mexico
Miramar
Nigeria
Phillipines
Quatar
Romania
Rowanda
Russia
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sweden
Syria
Tanzania
Thailand
The Bahamas
Togo
Trinadad and Tobago
Tunisa
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
United States Virgin Islands
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

In part one we will focus on global presentations and explorations. The students will explore the world with classroom passports and global tours and presentations via a class rotation. Only the class presenters for each class period need remain in class during the duration. The presentations will take place simultaneously similar to career day.

1. The STEM team will come around and you will randomly pick a country from a bowl or hat. | 2. After you have chosen your country you need to log on to http://www.who.int/countries/en/ to research your countries top health issues. | 3. You will need to watch the Future City competition videos and read the material provided below so that you will know how to get your class to create a model city for your project. | 4. You will need to download the 1 page project plan and post it here. Then you will need to post to the discussion forum by answering the questions in paragraph form.
Rules: | | |
| | |
1. Pick a country from the bowl | |
2. Decide what the top 3 Engineering Problems are going to plague the country in the next 20 years
3. Design a Future City for the year 2034 (preferably the capital of that country) |
4. Be prepared to give a 10-15 minute presentation about your country, the culture, and the future city.
5. Your audience will consist of a rotated group of your peers. |
6. You will be judged | | |
7. The top team will win a pizza party. | |
No computers or videos will be allowed in your presentation. | | |

Research and Essay Consultants- You will need to sign a team in your class to do different pieces in the essay. You may want them to begin with a discussion and hypothesis. They will definitely need to go to the computer lab or library. It is preferable that this group of students have home internet capabilities so that you can extend this to a homework assignment.Link

Build your model city. You may only spend a total of $100 or less per class on all materials. It is best to use recycled materials for your model. You may want your artists and students who are good with geometry to draw a scale model or blueprint. Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY_b1NTANrk&feature=youtu.be

Presentation : You need to have your most articulate students to do the presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCgncIbexQ Part Two - Conversations, Revelations, and Celebrations - (The Battle of the Countries May Day portion for 6th and 7th grade - symposium for 8th grade students)

6th grade versus 7th grade kickball competition 1:00-1:30

6th grade versus 7th grade baseball competition 1:30-2:00

6th grade versus 7th grade race 2:00-3:00

6th grade versus 7th grade soccer competition. 2:30-3:00

Announcements of Winners and Grand Champions - 3:00-3:30

6th grade versus 7th grade basketball competition 3:30-4:00

Refreshments can be pre-purchased and the food will be catered and distributed from (12:40-3:40). Each global team will be responsible for designing their own global t-shirts.

Resources that will guide your through this project:

INQUIRY BASED Learning - http://www.neiu.edu/~middle/Modules/science%20mods/amazon%20components/AmazonComponents2.html#benefits

Find your country and its health issues here http://www.who.int/countries/en/

The United Nations http://www.un.org/en/index.shtml

Georgia STEM http://stemgeorgia.org/

FMS Faculty and Staff Professional Development Blog http://www.eie-steem.net/

FMS Student STEM Blog http://www.eie-steem.com/

Project Forms and Rubrics (You will need to chose 3 areas in which your class will compete one must include the model, and one must include the presentation, you can chose between the narrative only or the research paper depending on level of English Proficiency of your students) Click here for the forms that you will need http://futurecity.org/forms. Please download and print the appropriate forms. The only evidence that we will need for this submission are the media release ( for the students who are in photographs or video taped) and the blog, video, or photographs showing your final model and presentation. We use this evidence to enter into the STEM Day competition during the fall of 2014. In addition, it will serve as a foundation for future trainings and competitions. Please note that all supporting evidence is due by May 13th.

Future City Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0nFWTMk0II

Project Standards: fc_benchmarksforscienceliteracy.pdf

principles_and_standards_for_school_mathematics.pdf

fc_nationaleducationaltechnologystandards.pdf

Project Overview: This year, Freedom Middle School will kick off its STEM program by participating in Georgia STEM Day on May 9th, 2014. Since we are a school for the world, we have chosen to theme our day International E-STEAEM Day (Education via Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Math). Therefore, the focus of our day will include the incorporation all of these elements using a problem solution based approach to learning. Basically, the kids will literally need to do all of the work. There will be no scaffolding of this assignment because we purposely want the students to use problem based learning to enhance their global thinking skills.

Project Objectives: At the end of this project the students will have a more engaged culturally aware perspective of the world and understand how they can use the STEM process to solve relevant real world problems.

Project Description: Each core classroom will be a specific city within a chosen country. Each teacher will randomly pick a country. After they have chosen their country, they will research a city in that country (it can be the city with the most need or the capital city), and then plan instruction for the week of the project to lead research, a paper, a future city design, and a presentation for the culminating event on Friday, May 9th. Please see below for a more detailed description.

Project Challenge: Your student's group project will use their research from at least one of the types of engineering below in order to solve problems in their perspective country. The evidence will manifest in a scale model of a future city designed by your class along with a dynamic 7 min presentation that will be presented to each class in your grade level. Please note that your presenters will not be able to use video in their presentations. We want them to rely on their scale model as the basis for their presentation. Teachers will only need 2-3 of your most articulate students to present the project because the other members will be rotating through the other classes to see their presentations on the day of the event, but every student must participated in the building, the research, and the design process.

Aerospace Engineering

Agricultural and Biosystems

Industrial Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering

Materials Science

Nuclear Engineering

Petroleum Engineering

Bioengineering and Biomedical

Chemical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Project Focus: Solving real industry problems in global teams

Basal Understandings

The students have to work on design in teams
| | | | |
What STEM is not . . . | |
| | | | |
4 separate and unrelated disciplines
Merely adding technology to the classroom

Engineering solves needs and wants.

Clean Water is the next currency of the next 100 years.

Scientists discover things for engineers to use to design.
| | | | | | |
Technologists apply the concepts of the engineers.
| | | | | | |

Mathematicians show the symbolic relationship of STEM.

Engineering Habits of Mind: | |
| | | | |
Communication | | | |
Collaboration | | | |
Optimism - keep trying and be persistent
Systems Thinking | | |
Ethical Thinking | | |
Creativity | | | |

Assignment-Sheet-for-Presentation.docx

Questions that should be answered in your project presentation are the following:

What type(s) of engineering were used in your project?

Which country and city did your class research?

What are the top three issues that you addressed in your project?

How did you propose to solve those problems with your future city design?

What resources will be available for the citizens of your city?

Where do your citizens live?

How do your citizens get around?

Where are the business located?

What are some innovative features and attributes of your city?

What are the benefits of visiting your city in the next 20 years?

Why is your city or country unique?

What are some neat things that you learned about the culture of your country or city?

Do you see the culture changing in the next 20 years?

The questions above are the basis of your International E-STEAEM day presentation. They will serve as the first part of your International E-STEAEM day presentation will take place in 2 parts. The morning session will host the presentations, and the afternoon sessions will host the celebrations and competitions. The students will need to decide if they would like to participate in the presentation development process and the global sports competitions or the presentation development process and the arts and entrepreneurship competition. The sports, arts, and entrepreneurship portion of the competition will begin after lunch at 12:40 p.m. Please note that only the 6th and 7th grade students can take part of the sports competitions because the 8th grade will have separate May Day Activities that involve sports competitions.

Country Explorations
Afghanistan
Algeria
Algeria
Argentina
Bhutan
Burma
Cameroon
China
Columbia
Congo
Croatia
Cuba
Eitreia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iran
Iraq
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Liberia
Mexico
Miramar
Nigeria
Phillipines
Quatar
Romania
Rowanda
Russia
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sweden
Syria
Tanzania
Thailand
The Bahamas
Togo
Trinadad and Tobago
Tunisa
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
United States Virgin Islands
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

In part one we will focus on global presentations and explorations. The students will explore the world with classroom passports and global tours and presentations via a class rotation. Only the class presenters for each class period need remain in class during the duration. The presentations will take place simultaneously similar to career day.

1. The STEM team will come around and you will randomly pick a country from a bowl or hat. | 2. After you have chosen your country you need to log on to http://www.who.int/countries/en/ to research your countries top health issues. | 3. You will need to watch the Future City competition videos and read the material provided below so that you will know how to get your class to create a model city for your project. | 4. You will need to download the 1 page project plan and post it here. Then you will need to post to the discussion forum by answering the questions in paragraph form.
Rules: | | |
| | |
1. Pick a country from the bowl | |
2. Decide what the top 3 Engineering Problems are going to plague the country in the next 20 years
3. Design a Future City for the year 2034 (preferably the capital of that country) |
4. Be prepared to give a 10-15 minute presentation about your country, the culture, and the future city.
5. Your audience will consist of a rotated group of your peers. |
6. You will be judged | | |
7. The top team will win a pizza party. | |
No computers or videos will be allowed in your presentation. | | |

Research and Essay Consultants- You will need to sign a team in your class to do different pieces in the essay. You may want them to begin with a discussion and hypothesis. They will definitely need to go to the computer lab or library. It is preferable that this group of students have home internet capabilities so that you can extend this to a homework assignment.Link

Build your model city. You may only spend a total of $100 or less per class on all materials. It is best to use recycled materials for your model. You may want your artists and students who are good with geometry to draw a scale model or blueprint. Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY_b1NTANrk&feature=youtu.be

Presentation : You need to have your most articulate students to do the presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCgncIbexQ Part Two - Conversations, Revelations, and Celebrations - (The Battle of the Countries May Day portion for 6th and 7th grade - symposium for 8th grade students)

6th grade versus 7th grade kickball competition 1:00-1:30

6th grade versus 7th grade baseball competition 1:30-2:00

6th grade versus 7th grade race 2:00-3:00

6th grade versus 7th grade soccer competition. 2:30-3:00

Announcements of Winners and Grand Champions - 3:00-3:30

6th grade versus 7th grade basketball competition 3:30-4:00

Refreshments can be pre-purchased and the food will be catered and distributed from (12:40-3:40). Each global team will be responsible for designing their own global t-shirts.

Resources that will guide your through this project:

INQUIRY BASED Learning - http://www.neiu.edu/~middle/Modules/science%20mods/amazon%20components/AmazonComponents2.html#benefits

Find your country and its health issues here http://www.who.int/countries/en/

The United Nations http://www.un.org/en/index.shtml

Georgia STEM http://stemgeorgia.org/

FMS Faculty and Staff Professional Development Blog http://www.eie-steem.net/

FMS Student STEM Blog http://www.eie-steem.com/

Project Forms and Rubrics (You will need to chose 3 areas in which your class will compete one must include the model, and one must include the presentation, you can chose between the narrative only or the research paper depending on level of English Proficiency of your students) Click here for the forms that you will need http://futurecity.org/forms. Please download and print the appropriate forms. The only evidence that we will need for this submission are the media release ( for the students who are in photographs or video taped) and the blog, video, or photographs showing your final model and presentation. We use this evidence to enter into the STEM Day competition during the fall of 2014. In addition, it will serve as a foundation for future trainings and competitions. Please note that all supporting evidence is due by May 13th.

Future City Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0nFWTMk0II