STEM I

SURVIVE • ADAPT • BUILD • THRIVE

2026-2027

ALMA

GOOGLE CLASSROOM

NEWSELA

STEM-VIVOR

"How can I adapt and succeed in challenging environments?"

STEM-Vivor is a project-based survival adventure that combines science, mathematics, engineering, creativity, and real-world problem solving. Students begin as wilderness explorers, learn to respond when nature fights back, establish a homebase, and ultimately design a community that can survive the future.

Science and mathematics meet during separate class periods but remain connected under one course identity. Students regularly use mathematics in scientific investigations and science contexts in mathematical problem solving.

(6th) STEM I Course.pdf

Course Title:

STEM I: Science & Math

STEM-Vivor

Meeting Time:

STEM I Science Class: 9:28-10:23 AM

STEM I Mathematics Class: 2:34-3:29 PM

Room Number:

Room 208

Google Classroom Code:

check syllabus for code; or email me.

this will be for both science and math)

Teacher Contact:

Dylan Bilodeau (he/him)

Email: dbilodeau@kreiva.org

Phone: 603)232-7974 ext.3019

Website: sites.google.com/kreiva.org/dylanbilodeau/home

Office Hours:

meetings available by appointment

What Are We Learning?

We will be working together to survive in many different types of environments and climates.

Starting with Nature's Classroom, and continuing with basic survival skills, including shelter, making safe drinking water, fire starting, overcoming diseases, medical tips, turning nature into medicine, and finding food sources, we will learn how to make the ultimate survival guide!

STEM I

Bulletin Board

All LAB SAFETY CONTRACTS need to be signed and returned asap. This is a summative assignment grade, and you can not participate in labs until this contract is signed and returned.

The STEM-Vivor Learning Journey

The year is organized into two semesters and four quarters. Each quarter represents a new stage of the same survival story, and students carry knowledge, designs, evidence, and lessons forward.

How can I adapt and succeed in challenging environments?

Our Survival Story

We enter the wilderness and learn what humans need to survive. Survival skills help us meet our basic needs. Nature challenges our plans and forces us to adapt. Resilience allows us to recover, rebuild, and find a place to call home. Communities grow when people work together to manage food, water, shelter, and resources. Sustainable systems help those communities endure change. STEM helps us move from simply surviving to building a future that can thrive.

SEMESTER ONE — SURVIVE

Q1 Wilderness Warriors → Q2 Nature’s Fury

Explore an unknown environment

Map, navigate, research, and plan

Meet needs for water, fire, food, shelter, and safety

Respond to weather, disasters, injuries, and changing conditions

Redesign plans when systems fail or resources change

SEMESTER TWO — THRIVE

Q3 Roots & Resilience → Q4 Built to Last

Choose a homebase and establish a permanent settlement

Grow crops, raise chickens, manage soil, water, food, and shelter

Design community systems and use resources responsibly

Respond to population growth, scarcity, waste, drought, and new challenges

Use the entire year of STEM learning to build a sustainable future

Semester 1 Quarter 1: Wilderness Warriors — I can survive.

Semester 1 Quarter 2: Nature’s Fury — I can adapt.

Semester 2 Quarter 3: Roots & Resilience — I can build.

Semester 2 Quarter 4: Built to Last — I can sustain.

Yearlong Driving Questions

What do humans need to survive, and how can STEM help us meet those needs?
How can learning survival skills teach us how humans adapt to their surroundings?
How do survival situations test creativity, resourcefulness, critical thinking, and problem-solving?
How can understanding nature help us predict danger and make safer decisions?
How can a small change in one part of a system create a much larger effect?
What makes a community resilient, sustainable, and built to last?

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S1Q1

STEM-Vivor:

"Wilderness Warriors"

Are you ready to brave the wild?

Students begin their STEM-Vivor journey as wilderness explorers learning what it truly takes to survive. They’ll map unfamiliar terrain, investigate plants and animals, purify water, explore fire science and safety, design shelters, forage responsibly, fish, and create tools using limited resources. Along the way, they’ll use science, math, engineering, teamwork, and problem-solving to build their first complete survival system.

This is where the adventure begins.

S1Q2

STEM-Vivor:

"Nature's Fury"

Survive the storm—or be swept away.

Just when students think they have survival figured out, nature changes the rules. Extreme weather, natural disasters, injuries, dangerous plants and animals, and unexpected environmental hazards will put their original survival plans to the test. Students will investigate weather patterns, emergency preparedness, first aid, risk, and cause-and-effect while redesigning their systems to become stronger and more resilient.

Survival isn’t about having the perfect plan—it’s about knowing how to adapt when the plan fails.

S2Q3

STEM-Vivor:

"Roots & Resilience"

From survivor to settler—can you build a new beginning?

Surviving day to day is no longer enough. Students will choose a permanent homebase and begin building a mini-civilization designed to last. They’ll investigate soil, grow crops, design farms and irrigation systems, raise chickens, create permanent shelters, and determine how their community will manage food, water, land, and other resources.

Resilience means more than surviving—it means putting down roots, rebuilding, and creating something that can grow.

S2Q4

STEM-Vivor:

"Built to Thrive"

You built a community—but can it survive the future?

The final STEM-Vivor challenge asks students to take everything they have learned and prepare their growing community for what comes next. Population growth, limited resources, food and water demands, waste, energy, infrastructure, environmental change, and unexpected challenges will test the systems they created. Students will use data, mathematics, science, engineering, and collaboration to redesign their community and make difficult decisions about its future.

The goal is no longer simply to survive. It’s to build a community resilient enough to adapt, grow, and thrive.

IM Mathematics

Kreiva Math Competencies

These competencies summarize the major Grade 6 mathematics ideas students will develop and apply in class and in STEM projects.

Fractions

Perform operations with fractions and use fraction reasoning in computational and real-world situations.

Decimals & Base Ten

Perform operations with decimals, use place-value reasoning, and round appropriately in real-world situations.

Rational Numbers

Write, interpret, compare, and explain rational numbers and statements of order in real-world contexts.

Ratios, Rates & Percents

Apply ratio reasoning, unit rates, and percentages to solve real-world problems.

Area & Surface Area

Solve problems involving area of polygons and surface area of prisms and pyramids.

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