Machine Missions

An engaging, hands-on summer camp series for grades 3-5 focusing on teamwork, STEM, gardening, healthy living, and creative problem-solving. This lesson includes a comprehensive multi-day student workbook and a showcase presentation preparation kit.

A active learning station rotation lesson where sixth-grade students discover the dangers of confirmation bias and learn the power of testing hypotheses by trying to disprove them. Based on the Veritasium 'Can You Solve This?' video, students rotate through digital and hands-on offline inquiry challenges to build robust scientific thinking skills aligned with Indiana SEPS.

A lesson focused on the physics of hitting a home run in baseball. Students explore cause-and-effect relationships and vocabulary context clues through a reading passage, followed by comprehension questions and a creative writing prompt.

An introductory 3-day coding unit for 6th-grade students using Micro:bits. Students learn basic programming concepts like algorithms, loops, and event handlers through interactive physical computing and cooperative pair programming.

A third-grade project-based learning lesson where students learn about Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and collaborate to create their own media campaign focusing on water conservation, pollution prevention, or global clean water access. Includes an introductory slide deck, student planning packet, and a comprehensive teacher guide with rubrics.

Students collaborate in teams to script, storyboard, and edit their water conservation PSA, which they will then present to make a difference in their community.

Students learn the elements of persuasive communication, including target audience, emotional appeal, memorable slogans, and engaging hooks, laying the groundwork for their PSA scripts.

Students explore the distribution of water on Earth, discover how little freshwater is accessible for human use, and learn the science of why water conservation is critical.

A science lesson investigating the massive Sargassum seaweed bloom stretching across the Atlantic Ocean. Students explore its ecological benefits in the open ocean, the hazards it poses to coastlines, and the human and environmental factors driving its growth.

A thrilling comparison lesson focused on polar bears and grizzly bears. Students read a themed comparison passage, complete fact-retrieval questions, and play a write-in bingo review game based on the book 'Who Would Win? Polar Bear vs. Grizzly Bear'.

This lesson guides students through reflecting on their experiences with the OpenSciEd Grade 6 units on Light Energy and Thermal Energy. It includes a comprehensive survey for students to share their feedback, highlights, and conceptual growth.

An interactive STEM challenge and read-aloud experience based on Leo Timmers' 'Elephant Island'. Students design and build floating island rafts to rescue Arnold and his friends.

The complete 8-day camp program containing the comprehensive Teacher Manual, printable Challenge Task Cards, and the daily Student Camp Journal.

An interactive vocabulary lesson on Earth and Space Science, featuring visual matching card decks and tactile fill-in-the-blank cloze activities covering rocks, weather, water cycles, and space.

An end-of-year science project lesson where 6th-grade students explore plant and animal cells through creative coloring worksheets and a student-designed cell analogy project. Includes high-quality coloring diagrams and a comprehensive graphic organizer guide.

A comprehensive STEM lesson where students design, build, and launch water bottle rockets to explore pressure, volume, and Newton's laws. Students apply physics principles and mathematical formulas to model trajectories and calculate apogee height from hang time.

A high-energy, relationship-building transition lesson designed to introduce rising 7th graders to their future 7th-grade science classroom and teacher through interactive activities on the last day of school.

A 2-day hands-on STEM engineering challenge where 3rd-grade students design, build, and test index card bridges to explore balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity, and load-bearing structures.