About This Lesson
What will the future look like? More importantly, what do we want it to look like? In this highly flexible culminating project, students work as a whole class to plan, design, evaluate, construct, and present their vision for a City of the Future.
This activity is a culminating project for a unit on climate change. It is not a standalone activity.
SWBAT
- Explain how choices in energy, electricity, design, planning, zoning, and more reduce a city’s CO2 and other heat-trapping gas emissions.
- Understand that municipal and community leaders make choices that shape a city’s future for its residents.
- Name some solutions to climate change that they are excited about.
Skills
- Teamwork
- Critical Thinking
- Research
Standards Alignment:
- HS-ESS3-4 Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.
- HS-ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
- HS-ETS1-2 Design a solution to a complex real-world problem by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable problems that can be solved through engineering.
- HS-LS2-7 Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.
- HS-LS4-6 Create or revise a simulation to test a solution to mitigate adverse impacts of human activity on biodiversity.
Disciplinary Core Ideas:
- ESS2.D Weather and Climate
- ESS3.A Natural Resources
- ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems
- ESS3.D Global Climate Change
- ETS1.A Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem
- ETS1.B Developing Possible Solutions
- LS4.D Biodiversity and Humans
