Math Puzzles & Games
Real-World Math
Breakout Bio: Infectious Diseases
Brain Science
Surviving in Space
Aerospace Engineering &The Science of Flight
Math Puzzles & Games
Learn and apply critical math topics through games of skill and luck including chess, KenKen and Sudoku, and carnival games of chance. Concepts come from algebra and geometry and include an exploration of probability and statistics. Apply the concepts of risk analysis, expected value, and outcomes to create your own game and predict the success of the players!
- How can we apply logical reasoning to crack the code of classic math puzzles and logic games?
- How can we determine the likelihood of single events and compound events?
- How can we manipulate the mathematical formulas for probability and relative frequency?
- How can we analyze probabilities to interpret odds and risk of events in a game or contest?
- Know how to calculate theoretical and experimental probability.
- Understand multiple models for determining probability of compound events.
- Understand the basic principles of combinatory, including permutations, combinations, and other counting methods to determine the number of ways events can occur.
- Apply concepts of probability to problem-based tasks and activities.
- Gain deep insight into how they can approach challenging puzzles and games.
- Create a carnival game and analyze its possible outcomes, fairness and likelihood of winning.
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Real-World Math
Real-world issues big and small can be understood and addressed using math! Learn to apply exponents, percentages, multi-step equations, and more to devise solutions for both practical living and in the interest of solving some of the most complicated issues facing the planet.
- How does math even work?
- How are structure and patterns useful for solving problems?
- What does a real-world mathematics problem even look like?
- What parts of your arithmetic foundation do you rely on the most?
- What parts of your arithmetic foundation could use some extra strengthening?
- Know how mathematics can model—not just quantify—real-world situations.
- Understand how mathematics can be used to compare, contrast, and explain real world situations.
- Apply mathematical thinking as part of a decision-making toolbox.
- Analyze, synthesize, or create a real-world challenge that can be explained or made clearer using mathematical structure. Make and communicate a decision. Justify and explain their reasoning using mathematics as part of their process.
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Breakout Bio: Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases have puzzled humanity from the beginning of time. Students learn about microbiology, immunology and epidemiology as they investigate how the human immune system works to keep us healthy. Study advances in medical technology that have helped combat and eliminate diseases and allow us to find cures for others. Learn to question and hypothesize, identify and manipulate variables, measure and record data, and interpret results.
- What are pathogens? Where do pathogens exist in our world, and what effect do they have on the organisms they afflict?
- How do the many cells of the immune system work together to fight pathogenic invaders and keep us healthy? What happens when the immune system fails?
- Why is it important to understand the nature of infectious diseases? What real world lessons can we learn from studying infectious diseases?
- How are individuals and populations affected by infectious disease? What are the cultural impacts of infectious diseases?
- Identify different types of pathogens and associated diseases.
- Know the components of the human immune system.
- Understand how pathogens cause disease, epidemics, and at times pandemics.
- Explain how professionals attempt to identify and keep humans safe from infectious agents.
- Research the latest advances in medical sciences and their application.
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Brain Science
Discover the secrets of "the most complex thing in the universe": your own brain, a three-pound mass of miles of nerve fibers that controls everything you do and how you react to the world. In this mind-blowing course, learn how the brain impacts your decisions, controls your memory, influences your mood, and more!
- What is neuroscience and how does it inform other fields of study such as physiology, psychology, and even sociology?
- How do we study the anatomy and physiology of the brain? How does the human brain compare to that of other organisms?
- How have human brains evolved over time? How will technology change both our understanding and the function of the brain?
- Know essential terminology in neuroscience, physiology, psychology, and sociology; know how organismal brains and neurological networks interact with the world around them.
- Understand how sensory inputs allow the brain to perceive reality; understand the anatomy and psychology of the human brain and several other organisms.
- Apply the scientific method to class activities, discussions, presentations, and research; apply various methodologies to study the brain; apply theories to explain neurological, physiological, psychological and sociological phenomena.
- Analyze articles, media, videos, and virtual reality to understand brain science; synthesize original ideas to explain the functions of the brain, explore the consequences, constraints, and applications of novel solutions to a problem or challenge; create models, posters, public service announcements, and presentations to demonstrate understanding of topics.
- Advocate for the responsible application of science and ethics.
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Surviving in Space
Imagine NASA wanted YOU to live on Mars. Are you ready to launch? Investigate the red planet and the scientific and technological advancements NASA is developing to make travel to Mars a reality. Develop and propose your own plans for survival in space by researching current real-world projects that are preparing humans for off-world colonization.
- How can we sustain life outside of Earth?/li>
- How would we get materials to another planet?
- What would living off of Earth look like?<
- Know the limitations and problems that come with living off of Earth.
- Understand how NASA and other space agencies problem solve.
- Apply their understanding by designing supply drop-off models and mars colony models.
- Create devices to protect cargo from an orbital descent.
- Apply their new knowledge to theoretical Mars colony designs.
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Aerospace Engineering&The Science of Flight
How do the fundamental forces of flight work to get a giant machine off the ground? Apply the principles of aerodynamics to your own designs. Learn about the history of flight, and through experiments, create hypotheses, observe flying machines, and compose lab reports to understand the physics principles behind the science. Apply the engineering process as you become an aeronautical engineer.
- What major scientific principles make flight possible?
- Who were the major contributors to the evolution of human flight?
- What process can be taken to improve experiment results?
- Know and gain an understanding of the history of flight and how humans have worked to improve machines that make flight possible.
- Understand how to apply crucial scientific concepts in flight to their designs and projects.
- Apply the scientific method in a collaborative setting to design, test, and build experiments where meaningful data is obtained in order to test hypotheses.
- Analyze results and form conclusions based on experiment outcomes.
- Use results to modify and improve original designs of models.
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