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Beat the Heat Hub

Grade level: 7th Grade

Initial ideas

The Scenario: Your city is experiencing record-breaking summer temperatures. Densely packed neighborhoods with lots of asphalt and concrete are becoming "Heat Islands," staying up to 10°F warmer than nearby parks. The local community center needs a way to keep its outdoor seating area cool without using electricity for massive fans or AC units. The Task: Design and build a Passive Cooling Structure for a 1:10 scale model of the seating area. Your goal is to use engineering principles to lower the "ground" temperature of your model by at least 5°C using only sustainable materials and clever design.

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What if there was a tool to help us take our wild project ideas and create a scope and sequence? There is! Inkwire and the Professional Learning team at High Tech High’s Graduate School of Education designed an AI-assisted curriculum planning tool.

Powered by High Tech High's Kaleidoscope framework for project-based learning (PBL) design, this AI assistant helps educators – and learners! – integrate standards and curriculum requirements into a cycle of PBL Essentials.

The AI-assisted Kaleidoscope tool is co-designed by Inkwire & the High Tech High Graduate School of Education Professional Learning Team. The "Design for Deeper Learning Kaleidoscope" framework is copyright by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education.