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SYSTEMS THINKING & 21st Century Skills

"Education is not the learning of facts, but training the mind to think"- Albert Einstein

3rd GraDe

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Starship SImulator

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1st Semester

This will be your first time in the Dream Flight Adventures simulator. You will be assigned a crew position by your teacher and will be start off with a practice run in training mode. From there you will begin your mission: Find and buy medical supplies and have them sent to the planet Sriyana along with a special technology, the Wegener Wave Machine, that can stop their massive earthquakes.  It is a mission of service to save a planet, will you and your crew be up to the challenge? 

2nd semester

Now that you have some experience flying a galaxy class starship, its time for another important assignment from the Federation. In the mission, you will seek to save the planet Megara from political turmoil by tracking down the Oracle of Delphi, who has been captured by space pirates, and bring her back to her homeworld of Megara. But beware, there are factions plotting against you and it will require a skillful diplomatic and political touch to pull off a successful mission of Succession!

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Virtual Reality

 Amazing individual and team virtual reality challenges await you and your classmates. Click on the app icons below to learn more! 

Water Bears

Cultivate Systems Thinking and challenge your spatial reasoning. Mix colors. Make the most of your limited resources.  These water bears are sad and dehydrated.  They need you to help get water to fall on their bubbles. Water bears are picky drinkers, though, so each one will only accept water of a particular color.  You'll need to put your pipes in the right place and manipulate the color of the water to make all of the water bears happy.

gadgeteer

Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines will use gadgets to launch, bump, twist, and turn—creating chain reactions that may even end up tearing apart the fabric of space-time.

Blocks

Blocks lets you easily create 3D objects in virtual reality, no matter your modeling experience. Using six simple tools, you can bring your applications to life, create a volumetric masterpiece, or simply let your imagination run wild.

Star Trek Bridge Crew puts you and your classmates in the heart of a starship.  As officers of the Federation, every action and decision you make together will determine the fate of your ship and crew.  The federation will dispatch you and your crew to command the new, USS Aegis (Eee-gis), as part of a critical initiative. 

 

Your mission: explore a largely uncharted sector of space known as the Trench in hopes of locating a suitable new homeworld for the decimated Vulcan populace.  The Trench contains stunning beauty and undiscovered wonders, but also strange anomalies and dangers yet unknown.  The Klingon Empire is also active in the region, and their purpose is undoubtedly a threat to the Federation's plans. It's up to you and your crew to chart the sector to determine the Klingon's aims and secure a peaceful Federation presence.

However, it's not just the Klingons you'll have to worry about, you will test your combat skills even further against the stealthy cloaked Romulan fleet and the virtually unstoppable Borg.

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STANDARDS
Jurassic World
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