Learning Goals
Students will be able to explain how mongooses affect campus conditions, habitats, and native Hawaiian wildlife using evidence about biodiversity and human-environment relationships.
Students will be able to analyze mongoose-sighting counts with scaled graphs and multiplication or division to identify patterns and compare design alternatives.
Students will be able to define the campus mongoose problem with measurable criteria for safety, humane treatment, and wildlife protection and constraints on materials, time, and cost.
Students will be able to generate multiple humane mongoose-management concepts, including a nonfunctional trap prototype that applies scientific ideas about magnets or forces.
Students will be able to evaluate alternative mongoose solutions using test data, graphs, criteria, constraints, trade-offs, and feedback from community partners.
Students will be able to justify a revised community solution for protecting people and native wildlife through an evidence-based letter, prototype explanation, and public presentation.
Products
Mongoose Engineering Notebook and Call-to-Action Letter
Each student documents research about mongoose impacts, sighting data and a scaled graph, criteria and constraints, multiple annotated design concepts, a simple comparison matrix, simulated test evidence, revisions, and an evidence-based letter recommending a safe community response. All trap ideas remain nonfunctional and are never tested with live animals.
Humane Mongoose Prototype and Community Showcase Presentation
Teams combine members’ evaluated concepts to build, test with simulated animals, and revise a nonfunctional prototype, then present its scientific basis, data, trade-offs, limitations, and recommended campus actions to families and community partners. The display includes evidence about biodiversity, sighting graphs, criteria and constraints, design iterations, and team members’ calls to action.
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