Connected to Pre-Kindergarten Standards
Students explore characteristics of living and nonliving things.
Students develop an understanding of matter by examining solids and liquids through hands-on activities, projects, and problems.
Students develop an understanding of healthy habits and learn how food affects growth, gross motor skills (muscles), the heart, teeth, and eyes.
Students develop spatial sense as they engage in activities that explore directional movement – over, under, through, and around.
Connected to Kindergarten Standards
Students discover the design process, identify products around them designed by engineers, and use what they’ve learned to design their own paintbrushes.
Students investigate pushes and pulls and apply what they learn to design a model that can move a heavy load.
Students explore the relationship between structure and function in the human body and design a cast.
Students explore the ways people use technology, as well as program their own digital animations.
Students build upon their knowledge of how the Sun warms Earth.
Students explore the impact of human needs and wants on the natural environment.
Connected to First Grade Standards
Students investigate light and sound and design a tool to communicate over a distance.
Students build upon their knowledge of light and design a playground structure that protects students from UV radiation.
Students learn about animal adaptations and apply what they’ve learned to design an ideal shoe for an adventure.
Students build computational-thinking skills by creating animations based on their own short stories.
Students explore the fundamentals of programming as they employ the Use-Modify-Create framework to design a digital animated story.
Students learn from and are inspired by the external parts of plants and animals.
Connected to Second Grade Standards
Students explore materials science and devise a way to keep popsicles cold – without a cooler.
Students research the variety of ways animals disperse seeds and pollinate plants and then use what they learned to design a device that mimics one of the ways animals disperse seeds.
Students explore how the surface of Earth is always changing and design solutions for a fictional community threatened by a landslide.
Students learn about the sequence and structure required in computer programs and work in teams to build tablet games.
Students explore the sequential nature of computer programs as they employ the Use-Modify-Create framework to design a digital game.
Students discover the importance of biodiversity in habitats and explore the needs of plants for sunlight and water.
Connected to Third Grade Standards
Students learn about the forces involved in flight and design a solution to deliver aid supplies via an aircraft.
Students explore simple machines such as wheel and axles, levers, the inclined plane, and more and then use what they know to rescue a trapped zoo animal.
Students explore the results of the variation of inherited traits.
Students explore control structures as they employ the Use-Modify-Create Framework to design a digital, interactive, digital story with multiple plots.
Students investigate the roles that precipitation, temperature, and wind have in understanding weather and weather-related hazards.
Students learn about life cycles and the features of living in a group.
Students develop an understanding of the impact of environmental changes on living organisms.
Connected to Fourth Grade Standards
Students investigate how mechanisms change energy by transferring direction, speed, type of movement, and force and then use what they know to design a vehicle restraint system.
Students learn how energy can be converted to meet a human need or want and then develop solutions to move donated food from a truck to a food pantry.
Students become computer scientists as they explore computing systems and program a digital game.
Students learn about stimuli and responses and then use what they know to create a video or podcast to teach children about concussions.
Students examine the properties of waves and investigate light waves.
Students investigate characteristics of living organisms, including their structures and how they function to promote survival.
Students discover how natural processes shape Earth over time.
Students learn about human impact on Earth and the impact of natural disasters on humans.
Connected to Fifth Grade Standards
Students explore the ways robots are used in today’s world and then design a mobile robot that can remove hazardous materials from a disaster site.
Students explore mechanical design and computer programming and design an automatic-guided vehicle to deliver supplies in a hospital.
Students explore the transmission of infection and run an experiment to help find ways to prevent the spread of illness.
Students investigate models and simulations and apply their knowledge to program a model that simulates the spread of infections.
Students build upon their knowledge of the properties of matter.
Students explore interactions of living things within an ecosystem and then develop a plan to address impacts due to human activity.
Students explore patterns in the universe that involve the Sun, Moon, Earth, and stars and then develop a space science exhibit that educates others.
After students investigate interactions among Earth's systems, they design a method to filter contaminants out of water.