Brainstorm: Sun Curve Challenge
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Brainstorm for Sun Curve Design Challenge
Broad strokes of topics covered
Theme of Modern Science and advances in Science 400th Anniversary of Galileo's first telescope.
http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6959&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Social
Water use:
Drought in California and in other countries for example; Africa
Hunger
What is the problem communities face in regards to food and hunger?
Agriculture/Land Use
How does the agricultural community work and why don’t we have more local farms and neighborhood gardens. Who does and how does it affect their health and economic stability?
Food Production
in the US Food Industry
Where does food come from?
Economics of food distribution.
Design
Engineering
How does it work? What doesn’t work.
Design
Sustainability in how the structure is design with as little maintainence, water, and energy needed
Geometry
How angles affect the strength of a structure
Nutrition/Health
Nutritional value How vitamins from vegetables affect our bodies
Cooking: vegetables to taste good.
Plants affect our environement- what nutrients do plants need- cycle of nutrients
Biology
concepts of water cycle
Biodomes, etc
Water Foot Print
Collaboration
ISKME INKA Agricultural specialist, Urban farmers, Peace Corp. Volunteers, Gardeners, Civil engineers, Industrial Engineers, “Better food in schools” Gavin Newsom Spokes person, MIT
Field Trips: Coyote Point San Francisco, community garden
Technology
Photos/Videos Journaling
Sharing with other schools via video conference
Documentary video/ slideshow
