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PLTW is a S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)curriculum that is available to our K-M students throughout their educational journey (Kindergarten-Grade 12).
In Kindergarten your child will attend PLTW everyday for 25 minutes!
Project Lead the Way is an exploratory curriculum that empowers students to have a problem solving mindset by working through activities, projects, and problems throughout each of the learning modules. The modules relate to the world around them and provide many hands-on learning experiences. Students also do many learning activities collaboratively with other students. They learn to work together and problem solve as a team.
PLTW Kindergarten Modules
All PLTW Modules are framed around MN Science Standards and use the Engineering Design Process to help guide students through design problems!
Sunlight + Weather
Sunlight + Weather
-Explore the Sun's warming effect on Earth
-Learn how to describe the weather to make observations, collect data, and identify weather patterns over time
-Listen to weather forecasts and use them to decide how to dress for the day
-Design a structure to reduce the Sun's warming effect (as seen in photo above)
Living Things:
Needs + Impacts
Living Things:
Needs + Impacts
-Learn about living things and their needs that must be met for them to survive
-Observe living things in their natural environments
-Explore how living things have impacts on the natural environment
-Explore human needs and wants
-Explore how humans impact the natural environment
-To reduce waste and help the natural environment, students will design process to build a new game or toy out of reusable materials (as seen in photo above)
Pushes + Pulls
Pushes + Pulls
-Learn about pushes/pulls
-Learn about when pushes/pulls collide
-Change pushes/pulls
-Pushes/pulls design problem
S.T.E.M. TUB EXPLORATION
During PLTW students will experience S.T.E.M. Tubs. S.T.E.M. Tubs are different manipulatives that students will explore to engineer creations with.
S.T.E.M. Tubs inspire kids to be creative, work together problem solve, and guide students to having voice and choice in what they want to use in manipulatives to be engineers!
Kindergarten students LOVE S.T.E.M. Tub exploration time throughout their year in PLTW!
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