Grade-level STEM challenges: Encourages students to ask questions and explore science concepts through hands-on activities
Scaffolded structure: Provides clear guidance from introduction to main challenge for student success
Academic vocabulary and formative assessments: Supports language development and understanding of key concepts
Materials mostly classroom or recycled: Reduces need for additional supplies, making it accessible for any setting
Criteria-based challenges: Focuses on process over end result, promoting critical thinking and creativity
Summarized by Shop
Provide students with grade-level appropriate challenges guaranteed to spark imagination as they ask, imagine, plan, create (build), test, and improve. In each challenge, students will be making sense of phenomena and/or designing solutions to a problem as they build a clearer understanding of science and engineering practices (SEPS), dis