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Your Beautiful Self-sustaining City!
Uh...there is this one thing...
Let’s see...does my city system have…
Zombies are coming! Zombies are coming!
Aghhhhhhh!
Okay...let’s not panic! We are Scientists and Engineers!
Everybody just calm down!
Your mission is to fortify your city against the very smart zombies heading your way!
“Fortifying” does not mean go to battle with Zombies. You are not creating systems to fight the zombies. Your responsibility is to keep your community safely protected waiting in place until help arrives! Focus on safety!
Energy Sources
Safety measures
Building materials
Food and water supplies
Did you know that cells are experts at building great defenses? Since we are scientists, we could use the model of a cell to help us defend our city!
Cells have parts or components in their systems. Those are called “organelles”.
Cells build systems too!
We can learn from them and make our city stronger!
Zombie Apocalypse - Part Two
1. Take a look at how the different components or “organelles” in a cell system work by reading the Cell Organelles Vocabulary List.
Different organelles in a cell work like the buildings in your city model.! How could you use ideas from the cell organelles to make your city stronger? Make changes if you want!
What cell parts “match” your city parts? Use the information you put on the chart (slide 5) and this form and add it to your notebook to compare them and see if you could fortify your city even more!
Take a screenshot of your final city map and upload it into your notebook or on a slide!
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Along with learning about Systems, today we are also beginning to explore the idea of Patterns. Both of these are concepts in Science and Engineering in our world today. Want to know more about Patterns right now? Check out this video!
Concepts, and Questions for Today!
Why did we compare a city to a cell?
What pattern did we notice between cells and cities?
Why would “patterns” be important in science and engineering?
In your notebook, reflect on one or more of the questions here with a short answer. Add questions you have as well!
Good job! Today we explored the use of Patterns (another cross-cutting concept in Science and Engineering.) Patterns help us organize our thinking.
Your last step in this lesson is to “think about how you think” otherwise known as metacognition !
On the next slide you will see a choice board of two of the Science and Engineering Practices we want to develop.
Choose one for today that you think you were doing while you were determining how to protect your city based on the protections a cell has.!
Then, click on that choice and write down in your notebook whether you were thinking more like an engineer today or a scientist.
Science and Engineering Practices Choice Board!
Choose the practice you used the most today and click on the words in the box.!
Read the descriptions of how engineers and scientists think in this practice and decide which one seems most like your thinking today.
Finally, write your thoughts about this in your notebook.
Our next lesson will explore deeper into the invisible world of cells and cell models.
They are fascinating!
Oh...and...keep an eye out for Zombies! While we successfully repelled them from your cities, they may jump into this unit at any time!