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 algorithms to build three dimensional shapes!

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

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!

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!