The Biosphere is a semester-long project that plays with ecology, geology, and physics using a closed ecological system.
Students decide what to put in their biospheres, what and how to measure the conditions, and how to overcome challenges with their projects.
Students decide what to put in their biospheres, what and how to measure the conditions, and how to overcome challenges with their projects.
Challenge boards are one wasy to let students navigate a unit, to encourage free choice,and motivate authentic investigation. A unit built around a challenge board, instead of being dominated by linear curriculum, is student-led and pair-based. Challenges are designed to engage multiple intelligences and various learning types, as well as to promote interdisciploinary exploration.