Table 2 Description of co-created integrated STEM curriculum unit
Curriculum Unit | Description |
|---|---|
Heat Transfer 1 | Students learn about heat transfer and density to address the engineering design challenge of creating a way to keep fish cold as they traveled from the deep ocean to the mainland in a warm climate. Students design a way to cook the fish to sell at a fish market using solar energy. |
Particle Nature of Matter | Students focus on the importance of water. Students were engaged in a context that left them trapped in an area with only salt water and challenged to use their knowledge of the particulate nature of matter to design and build a device to desalinate water. |
Heat Transfer 2 | Students learn about heat transfer to design and build a solar oven to help children in a third-world country cheaply prepare food and sterilize water. |