About this resource
You are a newly employed wildlife rehabilitation specialist, today an Eagle with a broken beak has been brought into the rehabilitation facility. Your job is to research and discover a way to replace the missing piece of the eagle's beak. Work together with your team of interns to solve the problem of the missing beak piece. You can use any materials or technology that you see fit to create the eagle prosthetic. Good luck team!
Modifications for all Learners: All learners are provided with a basic scenario and can experiment with many materials and multiple modalities to enhance a learning environment that is differentiated for each student.
Curriculum & Standards
Related General Curriculum / Common Core Area
Art/Language Arts/English/Environmental Science/Writing
Related Curriculum / Common Core Standard
AASL Main Standard(s): III. COLLABORATE Work effectively with others to broaden perspectives and work toward common goals. A. Think - Learners identify collaborative opportunities by: 1. Demonstrating their desire to broaden and deepen understandings. 2. Developing new understandings through engagement in a learning group. 3. Deciding to solve problems informed by group interaction.
Related STEM Area: Technology and design
NGSS Main Related Engineering Design Standard:
K-2-ETS1-1. 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. K-2-ETS1-2. 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.
What students will do
- I will think creatively and create solutions.
- I will work with a group productively.
- I will solve problems.
- I will use technology to create a prosthetic beak.
- I will design a prosthetic beak.
I can think creatively and create solutions.
I can work with a group productively.
I can solve problems.
I can use technology to create a prosthetic beak.
I can design a prosthetic beak.
Resources Needed
Note-taking and drawing materials, materials as requested by students to create beak prototypes, computers with Internet access, TinkerCad, 3-D printers (optional).
How learning is assessed
- I thought creatively and created solutions.
- I worked with a group productively.
- I solved problems.
- I used technology to create a prosthetic beak.
- I designed a prosthetic beak.