Mathematics Aligned

Essential Question: How can diverse board games help people learn about American symbols?

Science: This lesson uses the design process to investigate the diversity of learning something new by designing and building a board game that will help people to learn about a topic.

Social Studies: Students will discover the diversity of American symbols and their meaning. 

English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: How can we use the diverse beliefs, customs, traditions and social practices of other cultures to design and build a musical instrument that vibrates and can transfer sound?

Science: This lesson uses the design process to investigate the diversity of sound and how it is made through vibrations by different materials.

Social Studies: Compare the diverse beliefs, customs, ceremonies, traditions, and social practices of various cultures in relation to sound.

English Language Arts Aligned

Essential Question: How might we create a business that teaches others that studying the diverse ways plants and animals move can help create a design solution to a human problem?

Science: This lesson uses the design process to investigate the diversity of how plants and animals move and how that research can potentially solve complex human problems (biomimetics).

Social Studies: Students will learn about starting a business, keeping a budget and the importance of diverse ideas. Students will explore the concept of exchange and the use of money to purchase goods and services and the role of individual choice in a free-market economy.