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Spin Your Way to Reading Adventure

This lesson is designed to help students review the various genres they’ve learned about and to create some excitement about reading outside their comfort zone. Prior to this lesson students…

Social Emotional Learning + Stencils

Students develop a list of things they for which they are grateful. Once created, students chose one or more designs to visually illustrate their gratitude using a graphic design program.…

Project Planning with Physical Computing

Students plan and create their own whole-class whole-term project using Circuit Playgrounds and the Digital Fabrication tools available to them.

Magnetic Code Poetry

Create poetry from magnetic pieces that have scraps of code on them, such as ++ *= for ( and { as well as more usual poetry words that are code…

Make a statement

In this lesson, students will use the engineering design process to make an item that promotes an environmental or social justice message. The students will research an area of interest…

understanding plant life cycle

During this lesson, I showed students the life cycle of a plant, using the example of an apple, and since the students had no experience with digital production, I showed…

Christmas Cards

This series of lessons will take you through how to make a Christmas card using the Brother ScanNCut and the circuit playground express. These lessons can be adapted to be…

CO2 Dragsters

In this series of lessons, you will take students through the design and production processes in order to create their own CO2 Dragster. As a class, you will design a…

Fab-in-a-Box Balsa Glider

Learners will design and fabricate a glider. Test its flight, then optimize their design by adjusting the shape of its wings, tail, or body.   This activity will introduce two…

Fab-in-a-Box Dice

Design your own 3D-printable dice! Use CAD (computer-aided design) software to build out an idea in three dimensions. Choose your dice geometry and decide what to put on each face.…

Fab-in-a-Box Spinning Tops

Give engineering a spin: experiment with physics while designing and fabricating a custom spinning top! Get hands-on with energy, force, and momentum as you experiment with different 3D-printed designs. How…