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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. | |