Media Mayhem Unit Awarded NGSS Design Badge
An 球速体育鈥檚 STEM unit, Media Mayhem, was recently awarded the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Design Badge!
An 球速体育鈥檚 STEM unit, Media Mayhem, was recently awarded the . The Media Mayhem unit is housed on the Food and Agriculture Center for Science Education website and is free for educators to download. The NGSS Design Badge is awarded to top-rated science units designed for the Next Generation Science Standards.
(The Center) is an initiative of the 球速体育 dedicated to enhancing scientific and agricultural literacy by expanding access to agriculture. The Center accomplishes this by providing immersive professional learning opportunities for educators, high-quality instructional materials designed for the Next Generation Science Standards, and collaborative partnerships between educators and agricultural experts.
offers a range of agricultural resources that are completely free and customizable. The Center also offers multiple professional learning opportunities to support the implementation and customization of materials, enhance sustainability literacy, and/or support the modification of existing curricula to include the science of food, sustainability/resilience, and agriculture.
The focuses on conflicting media claims telling opposing views, which can be difficult for students to understand. In this high school 5E unit on the dairy food system and sustainability, students explore media claims about the impacts of the dairy sector on the environment to figure out which ones most accurately represent the body of science on the dairy sector鈥檚 impacts. Across a series of four modules, students figure out how the components of the dairy food system impact the environment, including pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, climate, and biodiversity. To conclude the unit, students use engineering design processes to evaluate multiple solutions to reduce the dairy sector鈥檚 environmental impact.
