Lessons & Activities

Lesson Spotlight

Looking for a smooth ride into the school year?

Have students drive their own learning in Motion Impossible!

Motion Impossible

In this three part challenge, students will design and test devices that can move a heart quickly and safely across land, water, or air.

Grades: 4-12
Duration: Three 60 minute sessions

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Like most of our resources, this lesson is aligned with the engineering strand of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Data-Driven Energy Exploration

Duration: 90 minutes

Grade Levels: 4th-12th grade

Explore how to analyze data by building and testing one of three self-powered vehicles. Contribute to a class data set, then iterate on the design based on the data.

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Careers in Sustainability

Duration: 15+ minutes

Grade Levels: 4-12

Explore careers in sustainability. What does their work include? What are similar skills and how do you use them?

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Career Exploration Mosaic

Duration: 75 minutes

Grade Levels: 6-12

Explore careers while creating a mosaic that represents you, your interests, goals, and career aspirations.

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Computer Vision: Buzz Solutions

Duration: 2 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

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Computational Thinking Prototyping

Duration: 5 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Tips on leading students through the prototyping process in computational thinking lessons.

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Plugged Activities and Scratch

Duration: 8 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Tips on using Scratch and leading plugged activities with students.

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Unplugged Activities

Duration: 5 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Learn how to teach computational thinking without a computer.

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Why Computational Thinking?

Duration: 4 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Educators explain how computational thinking can be taught in a variety of settings.

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What is Computational Thinking?

Duration: 4 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Understand computational thinking and see examples of its use in everyday life.

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