GM+Science+CS

=Critical Content and Skills= product: create a video describing a certain car part and how its helps a car move ||  || product: watch video and gather information on famous scientists and inventors, and from this create and influential humans wikispace. ||  || product: create an online journal that discusses the impact of fossil fuels, and how to move away from them. ||  || product: create a live model to see how an engine works, follow the 4 steps of an internal combustion engine, have students name the important parts. ||  || product: Powerpoint with hyperlinks ||   || product:Quiz ||  ||
 * Content:**
 * ===Students will know...=== || AC || ===Students will be able to...=== || AC ||
 * 1.how the multiple different entities of vehicles affect each other to allow them to move easily, properly, and safely. ||  || 1. describe individual parts, within a **system** (man-made systems) can do more than each part individually.
 * 2.how individuals who wanted to envoke change in society developed technology to make lifestyles easier. ||  || 2. illustrate that science is a human endeavor that generates explanations based on verifiable evidence that are subject to change when new evidence does not match existing explanations.
 * 3.that modern advances in transportation technologies are being developed as more environmentally friendly, and will use renewable resources rather than fossil fuels. ||  || 3. exhibit how science and technology can help address societal challenges to population, sustainability, personal health and safety, and environmental quality.
 * 4. the concept of energy transformations, how one form of energy use creates another( ie engine creates heat in the process of working) ||  || 4. analyze energy transformations from one form to another, and will realize energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
 * 5. how cars, planes, trains, etc are set in motion, and how they stop, turn, and move. (general motion) ||  || 5. model motion in order to understand the complexity and purpose behind it.
 * 6.that changes in the economy and government affect scientific developments. ||  || 6. realize factors that influence the development and use of science and technology.

AC = Assessment Code
Q - Quizzes PF - Portfolio WS - Work Sample SA - Self Assessment P - Prompts O - Observation D - Dialogues T - Tests