Students act as paleo-artists, using scientific descriptions of fossils to reconstruct extinct creatures like the Glyptodont and Giant Sloth before comparing their work to actual illustrations.
A comprehensive third-grade science and ELA unit focusing on freshwater distribution, conservation, and persuasive public service announcements. Students learn about global water resources and work in teams to design and produce a persuasive PSA to save water in their school or community.
A 35-minute introductory lesson on AI for 2nd and 3rd grade library students. It focuses on how computers learn from patterns (training data) and contrasts human thinking with robot minds through an unplugged sorting game and collaborative charting.
A 2-page student activity pack. Page 1 is a beautifully designed 'Is it AI?' Sorting Mat with Name and Date lines. Page 2 contains 12 cutout game cards representing AI and Non-AI technology, styled identically to ensure a neutral assessment.
An action-packed, hands-on 8-day 4-H camp program focusing on Head, Heart, Hands, and Health. Students tackle engineering, teamwork, ecology, nutrition, and art challenges through daily active learning.
A hands-on coding lesson where students program Sphero Mini robots through physical challenges, using systematic trial-and-error analysis to refine their predictions of heading, speed, and duration.
An engaging, visual 6-slide presentation for projecting during the lesson. It explains human vs. computer brains, defines AI and training data, displays a child-friendly YouTube video, and provides instructions for the sorting activity. All text is designed at large sizes (24px+) for visibility.
A five-day modified animal classification unit focusing on the five main vertebrate groups, designed with extensive visual support, sentence frames, and tracing options for modified learning.
A fully integrated, thematic camping day experience for 3rd-grade students. It combines math, writing, reading, and a hands-on STEM tent-building challenge into an immersive indoor camping adventure.
A comprehensive 2-page print-ready lesson plan and facilitation guide for K-3 librarians. It provides a 35-minute pacing guide, vocabulary definitions, step-by-step teaching scripts, and instructional strategies for the unplugged activities and anchor charting.
An interactive classroom science game lesson introducing and practicing 16 key ecology and earth science terms using simplified clues, visual prompts, and sentence starters for third-grade English Learners.
A 2-page instructional and setup guide for teachers facilitating the Sphero Orbit Trials. Includes arena dimensions, calibration techniques, pacing guides, troubleshooting strategies, and key inquiry questions to guide student diagnostics.
A lesson where students in grades 3 to 5 design paper-prototype arcade games, playtest them, and practice debugging loops and logic rules using constructive feedback.
