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Irrigation Situation
Duration: Lesson: 90 minutes; Unit: 150 minutes
Grade Levels: 3-5
Use the design process to create a hillside garden irrigation system that maximizes water efficiency.
Lab Connection: Grade Levels: 3-5
Duration: Lesson: 90 minutes; Unit: 150 minutes
Concepts/Skills: Water conservation, irrigation, agriculture, liquid volume, terrace farming
Objectives:
- Engineer a hillside irrigation system that efficiently directs water to the plants.
- Determine criteria and constraints based on a “client” request.
- Evaluate the success of their design based on the criteria and constraints.
- Demonstrate why they chose to make specific iterations using sketches and written explanations.
Climate Standards Connections
| Next Generation Science Standards | ||
| Grade | Performance Expectation | Description |
| 3 | 3-ESS3-1 | Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard. |
| Climate Change Connections | weather severe weather | |
| Clarification Statement & Assessment Boundary | Examples of design solutions to weather-related hazards could include barriers to prevent flooding, wind resistant roofs, and lighting rods. | |
The Tech Academies
This activity was developed in partnership with educators from The Tech Academies Fellowship program. Tech Academy Fellows learn to be leaders of STEM education while designing and testing resources to be shared with other educators.