The standard that I have aligned my unit to is as follows:
K-2-ETS1-1 Engineering Design: Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
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Using the engineering design process students will explore the topics of urban infrastructure and the urban heat island effect. They will participate in hands on activities about how vegetation can cool off urban environments and how solar and wind energy work. They can use these activities to ask questions, make observations, and gather information. Over the course of the unit students will go through the engineering design process in order to come up with solutions to the problem “how can we make our community more sustainable?” Using the design process students will get the chance to create a change which would improve the city that they live in.