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Adapt A Bird
Students will use their problem solving skills and a vinyl cutter to help combat a neighborhood problem. Over the course of four class periods (3 hours in total) students will use…
IoT Health
In this session, students will go through the engineering design process to design and build a heartbeat monitoring system using Arduino IDE and IoT At the end of the lesson…
Wakandan Bling
This lesson is inspired by different designers’ approaches for the Black Panther film. For example, LA-based designer Douriean Fletcher curated a special set of jewelry such as beaded bracelets, necklaces…
3D Printed Grabbers
This lesson will teach STEM and design concepts. It is adapted from an 8-module curriculum centering around the use of 3D printed prosthetics and other assistive devices. This curriculum is…
GeoConstructix
The primary focus of this lesson is on the inter-relationship between geometry and fabrication. GeoConstructix adapts digital fabrication concepts by focusing on the inter-relationship between geometry and Computer-aided design and…
about CHEVRON STEM ZONE
Chevron has partnered with the Fab Foundation since 2016 to expand access to STEM and digital fabrication for student learning. Fab Foundation is supporting Chevron in launching the STEM Zone by using this collection to provide the community with supportive examples of lessons to bring beyond the screen.
IN THIS COLLECTION
This collection includes five lessons from SCOPES-DF community members showcasing tools seen in the ‘Passport to Possible’ virtual tour of the Richmond Fab Lab. These lessons cover ecology, history, science, and the arts. The lessons shared are designed for students ages 8-18 for communities worldwide. The educators in the collection teach in formal and informal education settings in Qatar to the United States.
Chevron and the Fab Foundation are using this collection to highlight lessons in the network that illustrate the tools found in a Fab Lab .
Create an RC car with upper primary.
In this lesson, we will be teaching upper primary school students how to use Micro:bit to program a small robot car. This is a bit of an advanced coding program…
April 24, 2025
Building a simple circuit in a box for matching words or definitions to concepts in a fun way.
The idea of this lesson is to have students build a simple circuit in a box designed to be a simple game of matching words or definitions to concepts. On…
April 24, 2025
Solar power car for primary students
In this lesson, students will learn about renewable energy, circuits, and create a solar power car to combine their learning.
April 22, 2025
Designing and Building a Multi-Function Voronoi Lamp
Students will design and create a Voronoi-style 3D-printed lamp shade using MakeMyVase, model and fabricate a base for the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, and incorporate components from the Adafruit Electronics…
April 20, 2025
Sensory Circuit Simulation
In this project, students will design and build an electronic circuit that mimics the touch sensory system, exploring how neurons communicate through electrical and chemical signaling. Using 3D-printed neuron models,…
April 10, 2025
Winter 3D snowman
This is a primary lesson that helps students get familiar with Tinkercad for 3D design during the winter season.
April 8, 2025
Clay Bells + Electronics
Student will learn to design and construct clay bells that are enhanced with electronics
April 3, 2025
Scratch Coding + Advertising Technique Analysis
In this lesson, 4th-grade students will integrate their Scratch coding skills with media literacy concepts. Students will analyze a print advertisement by identifying persuasive techniques and create an interactive Scratch…
April 1, 2025
Pulse Monitoring with RGB LED and Microcontroller
In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between heart rate, physical activity, and emotions using a pulse sensor and an RGB LED. By integrating biology, physics, and programming, students…
March 31, 2025
Sustainable Solutions: Building a Smart Greenwall for Urban Environments
The “Sustainable Solutions: Building a Smart Greenwall for Urban Environments” project integrates renewable energy and urban greening to enhance sustainability education. Students will collaborate across disciplines to design and construct…
March 31, 2025
Growing plants with the help of technology
Working together with the Science area, students will build a model of a greenhouse and include in the model automation systems to handle some of the tasks associated with it.…
March 31, 2025
Finch Olympics
In this lesson, students use robots to explore physics, coding, and engineering. They calculate kinetic energy by measuring their robot’s speed and mass while completing a maze. Then, they program…
March 30, 2025
Structure and Function of a WiFi Lamp
This series of lessons focuses on developing a battery-operated Wi-Fi lamp. The focus is on developing the program mode, particularly controlling an LED strip, and the basics of HTML programming.
March 29, 2025
Lie Detector
For the freshman skills class, students have been learning that in the real world, you often need to connect multiple disciplines to solve problems, which culminates in a CSI unit…
March 28, 2025
VIsualizing music
This lesson connects music, visual arts, art history, physics, and programming, During the lesson students will be encouraged active listening and creative expression through abstraction and light painting. Students will…
March 28, 2025
Robotics Race – Measuring Distance, Conversion and Coding
Students will demonstrate an understanding of measuring distance (using and converting EU and/or US measurement systems) while also writing a code that will effectively move their robot. This lesson…
March 23, 2025STANDARDS-ALIGNED
Community contributed lessons aligned with Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer formal educators innovative pathways to teaching content knowledge. The Fab I Can Statements are a resource to develop technology-literate learning progressions to align with content standards.
FAB TESTED
Periodically lessons are adapted and tested by the Fab Foundation team based on a call for submissions from fabbers, educators, and makers. Our inaugural set of lessons for the SCOPES-DF project were Fab Tested in 2016 and are tagged Fab Tested on the website.
OPEN-SOURCE VALUES
Lessons are distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, that permits free use and re-purposing by others.