Format
This is a two-part distance learning event. The first session is focused on the discovery of the challenges humans are placing on the survival of marine mammals and ocean health.
Multimedia presentation with video
1. The program will begin with a video introduction and overview of Pacific Marine Mammal Center
2. Presenter and participants explore and discuss threats to marine mammals with human origins including:
-Bycatch of marine mammals in the fishing industry
-The effects of chemical pollutants and the pathways they take to enter the ocean
-Plastics and other marine debris and the pathways they take to enter the ocean including the 'garbage
patches' that ocean gyres are collecting.
-Direct human interaction
-Climate change
3. Participants will view pictures and videos highlighting affects listed above
4. Presenter and participants will explore and discuss environmentally friendly behaviors which can be adopted daily to reduce human impact on the environment on an individual level
5. Presenter and participants will discover example technology and systems that have been developed to mitigate some of the threats discussed.
6. Presenter will outline the project participants are to tackle by restating the different threats to marine mammals originating from humans, encourage them to select one of the issues they feel most passionate about.and relay that they are to engineer a solution or system to mitigate the anthropogenic threat they chose. Participants will be directed to their teacher/program leader as to the amount of time they have to complete the task and when they will be presenting it in the subsequent session.
7. Time is allotted for additional questions and discussion
Participants select one of those challenges and embark on an exercise to create a viable solution which they then present to our ocean expert in the second session. During that session the design’s feasibility will be analyzed and a discussion of how it might be implemented then ensues.
Objectives
1. explore, discuss and develop an appreciation for threats to marine mammals with human origins
2. explore, discuss and develop an appreciation for environmentally friendly behaviors which can be adopted daily to reduce human impact on the environment on an individual level
3. discover example technology and systems that have been developed to mitigate some of the threats discussed.
4. Research, evaluate, design and engineer a solution to one of the threats discussed
5. Communicate their design and participate in a constructive critique
Standards Alignment
National Standards
ESS3A 6-8 -- Natural resources
ESS3A 9-12 -- Natural resources
ESS3C 6-8 -- Human impacts on Earth systems
ESS3C 9-12 -- Human impacts on Earth systems
ETS1A 6-8 -- Defining and Delimiting and Engineering Problem
ETS1A 9-12 -- Defining and Delimiting and Engineering Problem
ETS1B 6-8 -- Developing Possible Solutions
ETS1B 9-12 -- Developing Possible Solutions
LS2A 6-8 -- Interdependent relationships in ecosystems
LS2A 9-12 -- Interdependent relationships in ecosystems
LS2B 6-8 -- Cycles of matter and engergy transfer in ecosystems
LS2B 9-12 -- Cycles of matter and engergy transfer in ecosystems
PS1B 6-8 -- Chemical reactions
PS1B 9-12 -- Chemical reactions
PS2A 6-8 -- Forces and motion
PS2A 9-12 -- Forces and motion
PS2B 6-8 -- Types of interactions
PS2B 9-12 -- Types of interactionsDisciplinary Core Ideas: DCIs
Physical Sciences:
PS1: Chemical Reactions
PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Life Sciences:
LS2: Ecosystems: interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Earth and Space Sciences:
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science
ETS1: Engineering Design
ETS2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society
Crosscutting Concepts: CCCs
1. Patterns
2. Cause and Effect: Mechanisms and Explanation
3. Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
4. Systems and System Models
5. Energy and Matter: flows, Cycles, and Conservation
6. Structure and Function
7. Stability and Change
Science and Engineering Practices - SEPs
Asking Questions and Defining Problems
Developing and Using Models
Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information