Technology

From Plastic Bags to Eco-Wallets

Participants explore how everyday choices (like accepting plastic bags at stores) affect our planet. They’ll discover plastic’s journey into oceans and landfills, brainstorm eco-friendly alternatives (e.g., cloth bags), and transform…

June 1, 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
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The Birds Aren’t Real: A Collaboration Between Shop and Computer

In this interdisciplinary unit, students will create three-dimensional wooden bird sculptures that incorporate basic robotics using the BBC microbit. Inspired by the satirical conspiracy theory “Birds Aren’t Real,” students will…

May 27, 2025
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Introduction to mobile robot control using Smart Cutebot and micro:bit

In this activity student will learn the fundamentals of mobile robot control by programming a line follower using the micro:bit microcontroller board and the Smart Cutebot base by Elecfreaks. They…

May 26, 2025
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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
Guiding Growth: Training Plants Through Light Mazes

Lesson Summary: “Guiding Growth: Training Plants Through Light Mazes” In this interdisciplinary STEM lesson, students explore how plants respond to their environments by observing and guiding the growth of pea…

May 1, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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
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Clay Bells + Electronics

Student will learn to design and construct clay bells that are enhanced with electronics

April 3, 2025
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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
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