Bring Science Alive! Weather and Climate U1 Performance Assessment

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T H E AT M O S P H E R E A N D E N E R G Y PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

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The Extreme Adventures Company wants you and your team to present your plan for developing a cooler or solar cooker for use in places that have extremely hot or cold temperatures. Based on what you learned in the Engineering Challenge, you must come up with a plan for developing your device so that it is ready to use in extreme environments like those that adventurers will encounter in places like California’s Death Valley or the mountains of Antarctica. Once your plan is created, your team will present it to the Extreme Adventures Company Product Approval Board and answer questions about how it will work. You will also suggest further experiments that could be conducted to make an even better device.

Performance Assessment Requirements The best presentations will be ones that include: • clear explanations of how the device works. • reasons why the various materials were chosen for making the device. • descriptions of how the design of the device helps adventurers cope with extreme temperatures. • descriptions of how the extreme temperature (hot or cold) affected the design of the device.

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