As described in the textbook, all of the following statements about R&D are true except:

a. The R&D plan is where specific engineering activities are defined, and then matched to the personnel, resources, and timelines necessary to achieve them

b. Each R&D milestone should be broken down into the key technical challenges that must be overcome to achieve it

c. The process of achieving R&D milestones is iterative, not linear

d. R&D planning is one of the few activities within the biodesign innovation process that can be driven within a single function (i.e., engineering) rather than managed with cross-functional involvement

Identify which challenge you will participate in and which city you will design or redesign. You research the climate and geography of the city's location to identify how the city design is influenced by climate and natural disasters.

Sim City

CP1:Identifying Environmental Issues

[Student Name]        [Class Block/Period]

Student Work: Challenge Choice and City Description

Student Work: Main Environmental Issues

Student Work: MLA Citations

Self-Assessment

Level

Rationale - Write a short paragraph justifying the numerical level score you chose using key terms from the rubric and examples from your work.

Checkpoint Directions

As you design or redesign your city, there are many possible environmental issues that you must address in your plan. All cities must deal with pollution issues, therefore all plans for this project must address water pollution, air pollution, and solid waste.  After you have addressed those issues, you must also identify additional critical environmental issues your specific city faces.  These could be due to population size, climate, landscape, ecology, past development, climate change, development or any other environmental, social, or economic factor.  In this checkpoint you will research and identify the environmental issues. In the next checkpoint you will research and identify solutions to each issue.

Check for Resources and Activities under this checkpoint that will help you complete this checkpoint.

Read the “City and Challenge Choices” resource that accompanies this checkpoint. Refer to it for more detailed directions for this checkpoint and what to write in the student work sections.

Choose a challenge and describe your choice in the appropriate box above.

Choose a city based on your challenge choice and describe it in terms of climate, geography, geology, population, and ecology.  Choose details that will affect development, agriculture, and industry.  Cite sources for information about your city.

Identify environmental issues that your city will have to address. There should be a wide variety of issues including, but not limited to, pollution, water use, climate change, resource use, land use

For each environmental issue, cite information from at least one source.

Create a works cited list in MLA format in the space provided above for all the sources you cite. You can use Easybib.com as a guide.

Checkpoint Checklist

Activity 1: Plant Propagation (12 marks)

Instruction: Write the term that best define the following statements

A.

  Pollination  The method by which seeds are sown widely by birds and animals.

1. _________________   propagation in which seeds are used to produce new plants.
2. _________________   Young plant
3. _________________   process of seeds turning into seedlings.
4. _________________   The method of propagation using budding and grafting.
5. _________________   A place where young plants are produced. 

B.

1. Briefly compare sexual and asexual propagation
2. List four (4) plants that are grown first in a plant nursery.

In this project you address 5 related to the environment. Choose which issue you will work to solve with the project. Write a guiding question.

Student Work: Global Issue

Student Work: Essential Question

Student Work: Misconception and Counterclaim

Self-Assessment: Asking Questions

Level

Rationale - Write a short paragraph justifying the numerical level score you chose using key terms from the rubric and examples from your work.

Checkpoint Directions

Choose a global issue to research for this project:

Check for Resources and Activities under this checkpoint that will help you complete this checkpoint.

Go to the GIN 20 Global Issues page and choose one of the issues from the first column, “Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global commons”.  There are six to choose from. You can click on the issues to read more about them.

Describe the issue you chose (your own words in complete sentences) in the box above, Student Work: Global Issue.

In your description connect your issue to human population growth.

Write an essential question. Use the rubric as a guide. Write your question in the box above, Student Work: Essential Question. Your question should be related to a solution for your issue.

Identify a misconception about your issue and critique it.        

Use the attached Resource: Common Environmental Misconceptions if you need help identifying a misconception.

Research the science concepts related to the misconception.

Write your critique. Part of your critique must address science concepts and/or data. Check with your teacher if you think yours is an exception.

Your critique should conclude with an explanation for why it is a misconception and what the correct concept it.

Checkpoint Checklist

Done

These things must be done or included for this CP to be completed.

Use the rubric for additional guidance.

Issue from GIN Global Issues: Sharing our planet: Issues involving the global commons chosen and described.

Essential question written to guide your research. The question should focus on a solution.

One misconception identified and a critique is written about it.

The critique of the misconception leads to an explanation of the correct concept based on science facts and/or data.