Science
Fab-in-a-Box Spinning Tops: Deep Dive
Learners will experiment with physics while designing and fabricating a custom modular spinning top with interchangeable parts.
August 25, 2025
Fab-in-a-Box Botanical Press: Deep Dive
Learners will design a botanical press from scratch and create custom 3D-printed wing nuts.
August 25, 2025
Fab-in-a-Box Spinning Tops: Exposure
Explore how spinning tops are made using CAD and 3D printing. Learners adjust a pre-made xDesign file of a revolved top.
August 23, 2025
Fab-in-a-Box Botanical Press: Exposure
Learners will adjust a premade flower press using an xDesign template. Discuss basic 2D design principles: symmetry, bounding boxes, and perimeter shapes.
August 23, 2025
Fab-in-a-Box Balsa Glider: Exposer
Learners will work with a pre-designed glider template and make simple modifications to personalize and improve its flight. Adjustments may include adding paper clips for balance or modifying the nose…
August 21, 2025
Fab-in-a-Box Balsa Glider: Deep Dive
Learners will design a custom glider from scratch using a blank CAD template. They will also design and 3D print their own nose cone, allowing for full control over the…
August 18, 2025
AI Climate Monitoring
This three-day workshop is designed to explore pressing climate-related challenges and collaboratively develop practical solutions. Participants will delve into the potential of artificial intelligence as a powerful tool in combating…
July 28, 2025
A Makey Makey Integration for a Transdisciplinary Science Research Project
This lesson focuses on the use of Makey Makey technology as a culminating integration tool to showcase and assess student learning across a transdisciplinary unit on New York State mammals.…
May 29, 2025
Laser Cut Mobiles: Exploring Balanced Foodwebs
This third-grade science lesson on food webs incorporates a digital fabrication component using a laser cutter. The lesson is adaptable and can be modified to incorporate other forms of digital…
May 24, 2025
Climate Data with AI – مخيم الشتاء: بيانات المناخ باستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي
Over the course of three days, participants will collect and analyze climate data from various software. The collected data will be analyzed by AI and visualized using graphic software to…
May 4, 2025
Fabricating Transparent Bio-Fabric Pots for monitoring plant Systems
Lesson Summary In this lesson, students will explore the basic needs of plants and how their external structures—roots, stems, and leaves—support their survival and growth. Students will identify the environmental…
April 29, 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