< Return to Teachers Portal Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Grades 1-5 Request Description In Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems, students explore the properties and behavior of light and the use of light in engineering. The unit begins with the...
< Return to Teachers Portal Here’s the Scoop: Designing Trash Collectors Kindergarten Request Description In this unit, students will become environmental engineers as they work to save a fictional duck from a polluted pond. They’ll explore animal habitats...
< Return to Teachers Portal Liftoff: Engineering Rockets and Rovers Grades 3-5 Request Description Jacob is at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory learning how to engineer rovers that can be used to explore faraway worlds. Meanwhile, India is learning about the...
< Return to Teachers Portal An Alarming Idea: Designing Alarm Circuits Grades 1-5 Request Description In An Alarming Idea: Designing Alarm Circuits, students explore electricity and its use in everyday technologies. The unit begins with the storybook A Reminder...
< Return to Teachers Portal A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Grades 1-5 Request Description Students explore the solar system and explain how conditions on other planets affect the design of technology to explore those planets. The unit begins with the...