Sending Messages with Light and Sound

In this unit, young students behave as scientists as they plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials make sound. Students realize the cause and effect relationship between light and our ability to see. The unit culminates in an engineering project in which students work collaboratively to design and build a device that solves the problem of communicating over a distance.

A Bunny's Life

In this unit, students act as scientists as they observe how young rabbits look similar to but different from their parents. Students also observe how the structure and function of the rabbit’s external body parts (feet and coat) help the animal survive. Inspired by what they have learned, students design a product, which solves a problem in their own lives, by copying nature.

Sky Patterns

In this unit of study, students take on various missions as they investigate different sky patterns. These missions include tracking the Sun to predict where it will be at different times of the day and checking out sunsets to discover the seasonal pattern to the amount of daylight throughout the year.