Focusing on Engineering-Unit 2

Topics Addressed at Each School Site

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Driving Question:

How do people keep safe

from the weather?

Driving Question:

How do people use

technology/tools to overcome
challenges of their disabilities?

Driving Question:

How do people use

technology/tools to
overcome challenges of
their disabilities?

Driving Question:

How does light, sound, Driving Question:

heat, or electricity
travel from place to
place?

How does light, sound,

heat, or electricity travel
from place to place?

Engineering Task:

Build a structure that can

protect people from
weather.

Engineering Task:

Design a solution to a challenge

posed by a disability.

Engineering Task:

Design a solution to a
challenge posed by a
disability.

Engineering Task:

Create a device that

allows light, sound,
heat, or electricity to
travel from place to
place.

Engineering Task:

Driving Question:

Grade 6
How can world hunger be
solved?

Driving Question:

How do oil spills get

cleaned from the ocean?
How do animals get
rescued from oil spill
areas?
How does the
coastline recover from an
oil spill?
How do oil spills get
contained?

Create a device that

Engineering Task:
allows light, sound, heat,
or electricity to travel from
place to place.

Develop a solution to the

world hunger crises in a
particular area.

Engineering Task:

Create a robotically
engineered device to
respond to an oil spill.

Skyline

Solana Vista

Solana Santa Fe

Solana Highlands

Carmel Creek

Driving Question:

Where do animals live and

why do they live there?

Engineering Task:

Design and engineer a

model of a habitat that will
provide for the needs of a
specific animal's survival.

How does land

change and what are
some things that can
cause it to change? Driving Question:

How are our lives

impacted by
weather?

Driving Question:

What are some ways plants

and animals meet their
needs so that they can
survive and grow?
Driving Question:

Design a solution
that slows or
prevents wind or
water from changing
the shape of the
land.
Engineering Task:

Design solution that

reduces the impacts
of a weather-related
hazard.

Engineering Task:

Design a solution to a human

problem by mimicking how plants
and/or animals use their external
parts to help them survive, grow
and meet their needs.
Engineering Task:

Driving Question:

What happens when

you pull or pull on an
object?

Driving Question:

What are some ways plants Driving Question:

and animals meet their
needs so that they can
survive and grow?

Driving Question:
How does land
change and what are
some things that can
cause it to change?

How are our lives Driving Question:

impacted by
weather?

Driving Question:
How do Earths
natural process and
patterns impact our
land and human life?

Driving Question:
How can we use
empirical evidence to
teach us about system
interactions impacting
our Earth?

How does water

influence weather,
circulate in oceans, and
shape Earths surface?

Engineering Task:

Design a solution that Engineering Task:

works to change the
speed or directions of
an object with a push
or a pull

Design a solution to a human Engineering Task:

problem by mimicking how
plants and/or animals use their
external parts to help them
survive, grow, and meet their
needs.

Engineering Task:
Design a solution
that slows or
prevents wind or
water from changing
the shape of the land

Design solution that Engineering Task:

reduces the impacts
of a weather-related
hazard.

Engineering Task:
Design a solution to
reduce the impact of
natural Earth
processes on humans?

Engineer a solution to
protect the Earths
resources and
environment by using
science ideas.

Engineering Task:

Invent and create a model

showing how energy from
the sun and the force of
gravity affect the cycling
of water through Earths
Systems.

What are predictable patterns of

the sun, moon, and stars?

Driving Question:

How does energy move Driving Question:

through sound, light, heat,
and electric currents?

How can elements be

combined to create new
substances?

Driving Question:

How do oil spills get

cleaned up from the
ocean?

Engineering Task:

Create a device that

Engineering Task:
demonstrates how sound,
light, heat or electricity
travels from place to
place.

Driving Question:

How do people keep safe

from the weather?

Driving Question:

Driving Question:

How does land change

and what are some things
that can cause it to
change?
Driving Question:

How are our lives

impacted by weather?

Design and engineer a

solution that slows or
prevents water and wind
from changing the shape
of the land.
Engineering Task:

Design and engineer a

solution to reduce the
impact of a weatherrelated hazard.

What do plants and

animals need to survive
and grow?

Does weather impact

our lives?

Engineering Task:

Build a structure that can

protect people from
weather.

Engineering Task:

Develop a simple sketch, drawing

or physical model to illustrate how
the shape of an object helps it
function as needed to solve a
given problem.
Engineering Task:

Driving Question:

Where do animals live and

why do they live there?

Driving Question:

What are some ways animals

meet their needs to survive and
grow?

Engineering Task:

Construct a solution to help

a displaced animal.
Engineering Task:

Driving Question:

Design a solution to a human

problem by mimicking how plants
and/or animals use their external
parts to help them survive, grow
and meet their needs.
Engineering Task:

Driving Question:

Engineer a model the

mimics the function of an
animal dispersing seeds
or pollinating plants.
Engineering Task:

Solana Pacific

Construct a solution to
reduce the impacts of
weather related
hazards

Engineering Task:
Each student designs an
element Superhero and then
works with a partner to
create a new dynamic duo!

Build a device to clean

up an oil spill on the water
using only natural
resources.

Driving Question:

Where do animals live Driving Question:

and why do they live
there?

What are some ways plants Driving Question:

and animals meet their
needs so that they can
survive and grow?

How does land

Driving Question:
change and what are
some things that can
cause it to change?

How are our lives Driving Question:

impacted by
weather?

How do Earths
Driving Question:
natural process and
patterns impact our
land and human life?

How can we use

Driving Question:
empirical evidences to
teach us about system
interactions impacting
our Earth?

How do human
activities affect Earth
Systems?

Engineering Task:

Design and engineer a Engineering Task:

habitat solution to a
address the lack of
natural resources that
a specific animal
needs to survive.

Design and engineer a

Engineering Task:
solution to a human
problem by mimicking how
plants and/ or animals use
their external parts to help
them survive. (See standard
for clarification of human
problems.)

Design and engineer Engineering Task:

a solution that slows
or prevents water
and wind from
changing the shape
of the land.

Design and
Engineering Task:
engineer a
solution to reduce
the impact of a
weather-related
hazard.

Design and engineer Engineering Task:

a solution to reduce
the impact of natural
Earths processes on
humans.

Design and engineer a Engineering Task:

solution to protect the
Earths resources and
environment by using
science ideas.

Design and engineer a

method for monitoring
and minimizing a
human impact on the
environment.

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