Cleaning Up Your Act

Cleaning Up Your Act Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) provides students with a real world engineering problem in which they must work as a team to design a procedure to select the best material for cleaning up an oil spill. The main focus of this MEA is to recognize the consequences of a catastrophic event, and understand the environmental and economical impact based on data analysis. Students will conduct individual and team investigations in order to arrive at a scientifically sound solution to the problem.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.
Resource ID#: 31745 Type: Lesson Plan
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General Information

Subject(s): English Language Arts, Science
Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Suggested Technology: Computer for Presenter, Computers for Students, Internet Connection, LCD Projector, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Office
Instructional Time: 6 Hour(s)
Resource supports reading in content area:Yes
Freely Available: Yes
Keywords: MEA, model eliciting activity, Data analysis, Qualitative & Quantitative data, validity, biochemical cycles, absorption, ecology, biotic, abiotic, ecosystem, peer review, decomposer, renewable/nonrenewable resources, pollution, biomagnifications, aquatic, adhesion, cohesion, hydrophobic/hydrophilic, polar/non polar molecules
Instructional Component Type(s): Lesson Plan,  Problem-Solving Task,  Video/Audio/Animation,  Image/Photograph,  Text Resource,  Resource Collection,  Instructional Technique,  Data Set,  Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) STEM Lesson
Resource Collection: STEM Lessons - Model Eliciting Activity

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