Lessons

Design a lander attachment that lands upright and protects a fragile payload!

Think like a coder and follow algorithms to build shapes with Strawbees.

Create your own game and set of rules using Strawbees!

Build, play, test and modify a game using Strawbees.

Create your own algorithms to build three dimensional shapes!

Think like a coder and follow algorithms to build shapes with Strawbees.

Create your own “digital footprint” monster model that figuratively represents one aspect of your own digital footprint.

Create characters to tell a compelling story about cybersecurity.

Modify the equilibrium balance to rotate all the way around as smoothly as possible, like a ferris wheel!

Build an equilibrium balance model and explore how engineers use levers and balanced systems to calculate the weight of objects.

Create a faster roller coaster track for a rolling ball and enjoy the ride!

Create a sloping roller coaster track for a rolling ball and enjoy the ride!

Discover the mysteries of a frigid desert with a scarce amount of life.

Explore an ecosystem covered or saturated with water for most of the year.

Create a large mammal that inhabits the forests in the northern latitudes.

Make an amphibian living in a luscious ecosystem.

Check out this vast grassland home to a diverse array of large herbivores and predators.

Make a splash with a freshwater fish.

Craft a critter living in an area experiencing many seasons throughout the year.

Explore the climate of deserts globally and the inhabitants.

Discover a spectrum of animal adaptations.

Explore the diverse marine biome and the organisms that maintain it.

Construct a mother and baby blue singing unique whale songs.

Launch into learning investigating catapult physics.

Explore energy in motion through a trebuchet design.

Create sliding linkages to control an umbrella.

Build a common tool employing class one levers.

Use mechanical advantage of the wheelbarrow.

Explore design challenges and constraints using tweezers.

Animate a feeding giraffe using linkages.

Construct ramps with varying slopes.

Build a track testing Newton’s three laws of motion.

Use a prism as a simple machine.

Explore simple machine of spinning a wheel on an axle.

Explore the power of the sun and code a micro:bit to sense different light levels.

Discover the sun’s role and construct a prototype of the technology using solar power.

Discover the power of moving water to generate electricity with a water turbine prototype.

Learn about the uses of water power to power a mill for grinding grain on a farm to a large community.

Explore the power of wind using a simple turbine design.

Harness the power of the wind with 2 turbine designs!

Have a ball discovering the geometric shape known as the icosahedron with 20 faces.

Discover the simplicity of the hexahedron, a familar 3D figure and Platonic solid with 6 square faces.

Explore symmetry with a dodecahedron, a unique 3D figure and Platonic solid with 12 pentagonal faces.

Encounter and build the octahedron, a unique 3D figure and Platonic solid with 8 triangular faces.

Encounter the many applications of the tetrahedron and build a model of this foundational Platonic solid.

Engineer a mini mechanical arm for a challenge.

Build and code a phototropic flower.

Learn about the fun and physics of kites then build a Sierpinski pyramid kite!

Explore community needs then prototype city sectors and unify into a large cityscape design.

Automate the mechanical movements of a crane with levers.

Test the different amplitude and speeds of earthquakes with a shake table.

Create a sloping roller coaster track for a rolling ball and enjoy the ride!

Check out this vast grassland home to a diverse array of large herbivores and predators.

Make a splash with a freshwater fish.

Explore an ecosystem covered or saturated with water for most of the year.

Explore the diverse marine biome and the organisms that maintain it.

Make an amphibian living in a luscious ecosystem.

Craft a creature living in an area experiencing many seasons throughout the year.

Explore the climate of deserts globally and their inhabitants.

Create a large mammal that inhabits the forests in the northern latitudes.

Discover the mysteries of a frigid desert with a scarce amount of life.

Discover the sun’s vital role and build a technology prototype using solar power.

Explore the sun's power and code a micro:bit to sense different light levels.

Test the different amplitude and speeds of earthquakes with a shake table.

Automate the mechanical movements of a crane with levers.

Explore the power of wind using a simple turbine design.

Harness the power of the wind with two turbine designs!

Learn about the uses of water that historically powered mills and other innovations for large communities.

Discover the power of moving water to generate electricity with a water turbine prototype.

Investigate community needs then prototype sectors and unify into a large cityscape design.