Curriculum
Curriculum
STEM Curriculum Resources
TryEngineering.org is a resource for students, parents, teachers, and school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers. It is meant to help young people understand better what engineering means and how an engineering career can be made part of their future.
Free science activities from the National Engineers Week Foundation
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms. Mapped to educational content standards, TeachEngineering’s comprehensive curricula are hands-on, free, and relevant to children’s daily lives.
The goal of Design Squad is to give kids a stronger understanding of the design process, and the connection between engineering and the things we all use in everyday life. The results of engineering are all around us: from cars to cameras and everything in between. Being an engineer doesn’t mean being a “nerd” with a pocket protector. It means being a creative problem solver, an innovative thinker and a team player. The website offers many examples that contextualize engineering concepts and spurs kids to explore those concepts on their own or with a parent or educator.
NPASS2 is hands-on, minds-on science and engineering projects for mostly elementary and middle school age learning how to tackle enjoyable, age appropriate but challenging engineering tasks like building a Trebuchet or a Roller Coasters in their Design It series, or exploring interesting and sometime perplexing phenomena such as electric circuits, sinking and floating, baking chemistry in their Explore It series..
Engineering Adventures (EA) is an engineering curriculum for elementary students created especially for out-of-school time (OST) programs. In EA, children are introduced to the Engineering Design Process as they ask questions, imagine, plan, create, and improve solutions to real-world problems. Each unit includes a storybook which sets the stage for the design challenge.
The NASA’s BEST Activities Guides bring the principles of engineering alive to younger audiences. The activities can be used as in-school curriculum or after-school clubs.. NASA’s BEST teaches the Engineering Design Process. Each guide has been created for grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-8, but all follow the same set of activities that teach students about humans’ endeavor to return to the Moon: how we investigate the Moon remotely (Part 1), the modes of transportation to and on the Moon (Part 2), and humans living and working on the Moon (Part 3). The emphasis is for students to understand that engineers must “imagine and plan” before they begin to build and experiment; therefore, students must draw their ideas first before constructing.
