The Olympics and Sustainable Sports Venues
How can we design and engineer sports venues of the future that practice sustainability? According to the Green Sports Alliance, 17% of the world's population follows science but about 80% follow sports one way or the other. So, sport has the opportunity and responsibility to lead the way here in sustainability and green infrastructure. Is there a way to engineer and design a more sustainable Olympics? More sustainable sports venues? Students explore these challenges during an engineering-design lesson that takes place over two weeks. Project management, research, design, scale model building, and presentation skills are included in this lesson. A guided research document with questions and resources is provided. A project rubric provides an outline for students to assess their levels of learning. This lesson follows the introduction of the engineering design process in lesson 1.
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Engineering S1: Engineering & Global Society S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process S3: Apply Mathematics to Engineering S4: Apply Science to Engineering S5: Apply Technology to Engineering S6: Apply Communications to Engineering S7: Apply Project Management to Engineering Mathematics Measurement and Data (MD) Geometry (G) English Language Arts (ELA) Reading (Informational Text) Writing Speaking & ListeningRelated Content
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