Engineering Encounters: The Internet of Things for Kids

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This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In the “Talking Window Garden” project, students create “smart” plant pots that use sensors to collect and analyze data on the health of their plants.

Grade Levels

Elementary

Topics

CCC1: Patterns Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Disciplinary Core Ideas in Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science Disciplinary Core Ideas in Life Science ENCdl Engineering ETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution ETS1: Engineering Design Life Science Life Science LS1.A: Structure and Function LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes Science and Engineering Practices Science and Technology Science Focus SEP4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data SEP5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking STEM Technology Three Dimensions of the Framework and/or NGSS

Details

Type Journal ArticlePub Date 7/1/2017Stock # sc17_054_09_84Volume 054Issue 09

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