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Five Essential Questions Commencement Address by James Ryan

5 Essential Questions One-Pager

I am Jane Goodall by Brad Meltzer

I am Albert Einstein by Brad Meltzer (author) and Christopher Eliopoulos (illustrator)

Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of…

Two Looper Airplanes

The two looper airplane is a great model for having students engineer other designs. Fantastic to iterate through the engineering design process multiple times because it only takes straws, tape, and index cards to let them play to learn!

Wack-a-Pack Science – PQRST

Our favorite phenomenon – Wack-a-Packs from Dollar Tree! These can generally be found for every holiday and also in the birthday section. Use this phenomenon to drive questions for lots of different avenues of exploration. See attached PQRST for more details.

Adaptations and Allele Theory Cube

An extension of Theory Cube lesson as applied to adaptations and alleles in biology.

Engineering in Reverse – lesson from TeachEngineering

In this hands-on activity, students take apart a toy to reverse engineer it. Most appropriate for grades 5th-8th grade.

How Does Reverse Engineering Work? article

Learn how this jet was reversed engineered and what we mean by reverse engineering.

Science ELA and Math Practices Venn Diagram

Use this document to show the overlap between the practices used in science/engineering, English language arts, and math.

Thinking Collaborative Strategies

Strategies, like Expert Jigsaw and First Turn, Last Turn, are a fantastic ways to engage learners. This links to all the Thinking Collaborative Strategies which will give you lots of options for mixing up the way you engage learners in your learning spaces.