Grades:
6th Grade
Over 2 days (60 min or more each day), students create a catapult out of jumbo popsicle sticks, a water bottle cap and rubber bands. The challenge is for students to launch their snowball (cotton ball
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students become engineers and create a modified adaptive device after disassembling and assembling eyewear and creating a new adaptive device in this engaging lesson. This real-world problem-solving
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is the first lesson in a series of 4. Students gain an understanding of the forces that are acting upon a drone when it is flying. They will learn about how thrust, weight, lift and drag work
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of osmosis, then investigate how solutions of various salt concentrations influence the size of plant cells.
Grades:
5th Grade
Students will be learning about honey bees, what they need to survive, and how amazing they are! They will learn about the structure of the honeycomb and then they will engineer their own!
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade
Students will learn basic concepts of physics, including velocity, motion, and vector. S tudents will develop and use a model to predict how forces act on objects at a distance. Finally students will
Grades:
3rd Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will create their own parade float using recyclable materials and code a parade route using Dash robots. Students will do this after hearing the story "Balloons over
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This hands-on science lesson will help students get a more accurate view of the solar system by making a scale model with play dough, balloons, rulers, and tape!
Grades:
3rd Grade
In this lesson, students will create a unique animal and then describe & draw it in a specific habitat. The students will determine what adaptations the animal needs to survive in the habitat and
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this engaging lesson students are introduced to the key computational concept of variables using Edison robots and the Scratch-based programming language EdScratch4. Variables, which can be created
Grades:
5th Grade
In this engaging and hands-on lesson, students will learn how crime scene investigators use science and engineering techniques and technology to solve crimes. Students will match substances based upon
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Students will develop a deep understanding about environmental sustainability while creating an implementation plan for a UN sustainability goal. This lesson focuses on science and technology, with
Grades:
4th Grade
Students will be able to design a method of protection for the Earth’s land that would withstand the impact of rainfall on soil and prevent erosion. Students will discover that the soil with
Grades:
4th Grade
In this hands-on lesson, students will construct a model of a volcano and produce lava flows. They will also observe, draw, record, and interpret the history and stratification of an unknown volcano
Grades:
3rd Grade
SUMMARY: This lesson challenges 3rd grade students to apply their knowledge of the physics of light by having them design, create, and test an obstacle course that their beam of light must navigate
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson students will be introduced to the Edison Robot and coding. They will work collaboratively to code a program in EdScratch for Edison to complete. Students will work together to test and
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is a two-part lesson using pull back cars. Students will change the mass of their pull back cars to determine if the mass affects the distance they travel or their speed. This engaging lesson
Grades:
3rd Grade
In this lesson, students will research a variety of habitats. They will then use their research to document what they learned using technology. This information will be used in future lessons to build
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Edison Robot Challenges
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this hands-on lesson students review the Edison robot and coding in Edscratch. They will then work together to solve math problems and then code the Edison robot to match their solution to the math
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Building on the programming concepts explored in part 1, this lesson asks students to re-imagine the ‘spiral-out’ program to be a spiral-in program instead. Designed to be a stepping-stone activity to
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This is an 8-lesson unit that is designed to be used together to learn about the health and diversity of your local watershed by placing leaf packs into a water source (natural or man-made ponds
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Shelter From the Sun
Grades:
Kindergarten
Kindergarten students explore earth materials to find out how the sun and other heat sources change their temperature. The students use what they learn in order to choose earth materials that would be
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OMG! Empirical Formulas
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Students will discover the Empirical Formula for the synthesis of Magnesium and Oxygen through a laboratory experiment in which they will react Magnesium Ribbon with atmospheric Oxygen by super
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson, students will explore the concepts of gear ratios and proportions. They will construct a working gear system and observe how the ratio between gears affects their motion. They will use