EbD™ TEEMS NxtGen – PreK-6

A Home for All Seasons engages young learners in hands-on inquiry and design as they explore animal homes. The Kindergarten Building Block in the EbD-TEEMS Integrative-STEM Curricula for PreK–6 integrates concepts of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as students create various animal homes. Science and mathematics concepts that are reinforced include the basic needs of organisms, the environment that organisms live in, numbers and quantities, measurement, and shapes.

Can You Hear Me? engages young learners in hands-on inquiry and design as they explore one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: how we are able to hear and process sounds. By utilizing an experiential approach, students collaboratively investigate the issue of noise pollution, which is probably something they do not realize is a form of pollution. Following guided inquiry activities, a design challenge provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills in a meaningful way as they design and create something that makes a sound and also helps them detect sounds

From Nature to Me engages young learners in hands-on inquiry and design as they explore biomimicry (one of the most important challenges of the 21st century) and learn how we can obtain from nature the tools necessary for scientific discovery. By utilizing an experiential approach, students collaboratively begin to explore how animals spread seeds and how their environment is then suitable for habitation. Following guided inquiry activities, a design challenge allows students to create a device that will travel on land or air to disperse seeds.

Natural Hazards engages young learners in hands-on inquiry and design as they explore natural hazards that occur on the Earth. Science and mathematics concepts that are reinforced include multiple hands-on, inquiry-based activities such as creating designs, exploring regions of the Earth, and analyzing weather data as students learn about weather and climate, and the natural hazards that occur around the world. The final design challenge provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills in a meaningful way as they develop a design for a snow shoe to help people travel during a blizzard.

The Power of Solar develops students' understanding of energy systems and related technologies, temperature, electricity, and sustainable sources of energy. Science and mathematics concepts that are reinforced include the solar system, energy transfer, temperature, electricity, decimals, perimeter, area, angles, points, lines, rays, and symmetry. By utilizing an experiential approach, students collaboratively investigate solar energy as a global issue and learn that stewardship and innovation can make a difference in solving the world's problems.

Our Water, Our World engages learners in hands-on inquiry and design as they explore one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: universal access to clean water. By utilizing an experiential approach, students collaboratively investigate global water issues and learn that stewardship and innovation can make a difference in solving the world's problems.

Our World and Me serves as a capstone experience for sixth-grade learners using hands-on inquiry and design as they explore robotics through the engineering field of mechatronics. Mechatronics is an interdisciplinary engineering field that focuses on the integration of mechanical, electrical, and software systems. Following guided inquiry activities, a design challenge provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills in a meaningful way as their automaton moves from a mere mechanical device to a robot. In this course, students learn about robotics, coding, computational thinking and programming fundamentals.

Computing byDesign course is designed to introduce students to technology and engineering at early levels to develop early understanding with hands on learning, problem solving skills, methodologies, and design challenges. All lessons tie into the TEEMS NxtGen curriculum and is meant to accentuate the lessons with new ideas and perspectives.

Computing byDesing will:

• Introduce students to computing and robotics

• Teach Students to develop a plan to complete a task

•Have students collaborate effectively as a member of a team

• Have teams apply concepts and skills from technology activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple subjects and content areas.