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STEM ROAD MAP: SUGGESTED UNITSKINDERGARTENTheme Topic Problem/

challengeStandards/Skills Career Connections or

21st Century SkillsCause and Effect

Physics in Motion Student teams investigate different type of track designs to determine which design will help a marble go the fastest without jumping off the track

ELA – research how a roller coaster works

Career investigation – Mechanical engineer: designing and building amusement park rides;Critical thinking;Problem solving

Science – motion, speed, pushing and pulling effects of gravity

Math – measure and compare numbers

Other – environment, safety

The Represented World

Patterns on Earth and Sky

Create a presentation for a Petting Zoo: Create a yearlong calendar to identify weather and sky patterns and how animals and humans adapt to those changing patterns

Math – collect data on the cycles of the sun, the moon, seasons, and weather; constructing models; quantitative observations and reasoning (how many sunny, warm, rainy days in a month)

Career investigation –Meteorologist; Zoologist; BiologistTechnology – tools for observation, data collection and presentation; constructing knowledge

ELA – Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.Science – describing patterns in the natural world; observing how animals including humans adapt to patterns (changes in seasons and weather)

Sustainable Systems Habitats

Develop a reference manual that describes and compares different habitats around the U.S.

Science: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

Career Investigation: Biologist, Ecologist,Archeologist,Videographer.Global Awareness;Technology – understanding how scientists collect data on animals in a specific habitat

(GPS, Doppler, etc.)Science: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.

Math: Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

ELA: With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

The Human Experience Changing

Environment

Report changes in the environment around the school and community

ELA: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

Career Investigation: Journalist, Environmentalist, Photographer

Science: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

FIRST GRADE

Theme Topic Problem/challenge

Standards/Skills Career Connections or21st Century Skills

Cause and Effect

Influence of Waves

Student teams develop a model to demonstrate how humans experience and interact with light and sound waves

Science: Sound can make matter vibrate, and vibrating matter can make sound.

Career Investigations: Photographer, Aerial Camera Operators, Make-up Artist(http://creativeskillset.org/creative_industries/film/job_roles)

Science: Objects can be seen if light is available to illuminate them or if they give off their own light

Innovation and Progress

The STEM of Sound

Student teams will design and create instruments to play in an orchestra

Science: Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

Global/Cultural Awareness;Career Investigations: Musician, Composer, Producer, Sound Mixer or Editor

Social Studies/ELA: Research the main instruments of an orchestra: percussion, wind, and string


Patterns and the Changing World

Student teams will design a window-box garden and follow their products over an extended period of time

Math: making observations, measuring change

Career Investigations: Farmer, Horticulturist, Forestry

Science: Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.Science: Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

Sustainable Systems

Habitats – Local and Far Away

Student teams choose an endangered species in a habitat in another area of the world and develop a plan to save their selected endangered species through mitigating weather, climate, and other factors.


Career Investigations: Conservationist, Activist, Lobbyist, Environmental Engineer

21st Century Skills:Global AwarenessEnvironmental Literacy

Science: Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or

animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.Math: Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.

Optimizing the Human Experience

Survival on Earth - Water

Student teams will design and create a watering system that can keep a garden moist during dry weather while following conservation guidelines.


Career Investigations:Mechanical Engineer, Geographer, Ecologist, Climatologist

Math: Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.Math: Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

SECOND GRADETheme Topic Problem/



Our Changing Environment

Student teams develop a communication plan to inform their community in the event of a natural disaster such as a flood, tornado, earthquake, or dust storm.

Science: Students learn about the conditions for natural hazards.

NGSS: Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.

Career Investigations:Emergency management; relief worker; environmental analyst; environmental engineer; hazards specialist.

Science and Engineering: Students learn about how shelters are constructed and how water sources are controlled:NGSS: Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.*ELA: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.Math: Students use models to calculate how many people are involved and chances of weather occurrences.


Material Science and Space

Design a spacesuit that will protect a person from dangerous elements in space.

Science: Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

Career Investigations: Space Suit Design Engineer, Materials Engineer (NASA employs a “sniffer” to test smells created by various materials)

Science: Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.ELA: Ask and answer such questions

as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.


Changes Over Time: Our Schoolyard

Students adopt a plot of land in their schoolyard for a project of their design, plan for optimal use, responsible water consumption, and investigate how it changes over a school year. (Combine with school garden below)

Science: Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

Career Investigations: Environmental Engineer, Urban Planner, Civil Engineer, Irrigation Engineer, Grounds Maintenance Worker

Science: Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.

Sustainable Systems

Interactions in Systems

Students investigate and develop a school garden and explore the interaction between the Earth, plants, humans, animals, weather, and seasons.

Math: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Career Investigations: Plant Geneticists, Soil Scientists, Agriculture Scientist, Conservation Scientist

Math: Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems1 using information presented in a bar graph.

Third GradeTheme Topic Problem/



Predicting the Weather

Student teams will create a local weather forecast in either a video or a blog by making predictions based on collected data and observations.

Science: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. Examples of data could include average temperature, precipitation, and wind direction.

21 Century Themes:Global AwarenessEnvironmental LiteracyHealth Literacy

ELA: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.Math: Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.


Transportation in the Future

Student teams will design a model of a high-speed train that will safely transport passengers.

Social Studies: Students learn the history of train technology from wagon tramways of the 1500s to the invention of the first modern-day train in 1804 by Richard Tevithick to today’s modern-day technology that includes improved engine efficiency and enhanced aerodynamics.

Learning and Innovation:Creativity and InnovationCritical thinking and Problem solvingCommunication and Collaboration

Career Connections: Transportation IndustryHeavy and tractor-trailer truck driversSchool or special client bus driversLaborers and freight, stock and material movers

Science: Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of

electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

Highway maintenance workersAirline pilots, copilots and flight engineersAircraft mechanics and service techniciansRailroad conductors and yardmastersLocomotive engineers

Science: Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.Math: Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.ELA: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).


Recreational STEMFollows Changes Over Time: Our Schoolyard from Grade 2

Students teams will conduct a survey of their school playground or a nearby park or playground and develop a proposal for design of a new swing set that is both more entertaining, yet a safer environment for play.

Students teams develop a sketch and small scale model of a proposed design using geometric shapes and precise Measurements.

Individual students draft a short essay or blog, detailing the key components of how their design is an improvement upon existing swing sets.

Science: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

21st Century Themes:Health Literacy

Career Investigations:Exercise PhysiologistFitness TrainerRehabilitation CounselorsParks, Trails, and Recreation Design and EngineeringCivil EngineeringLand Surveying

Science: Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.Math: Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l).1 Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem.Math: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers

marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units— whole numbers, halves, or quarters.ELA: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.aIntroduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.bDevelop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.cUse linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.dProvide a concluding statement or section.

Sustainable Systems

Ecosystem Preservation

Student teams will develop a plan to preserve the local ecosystem.

Students investigate a local ecosystem such as a nearby stream or park, to better understand the interactions between living creatures, energy, and the non-living.

Students work together to build a model of an aquatic ecosystem and observe the relationships between aquatic plants, algae,

Science: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

21st Century Themes:Environmental Literacy

Career Investigations: Research Assistants and Scientists: Plant Geneticists, Soil Scientists, Agriculture Scientist, Conservation Scientist, Environmental Scientist; Environmental Consultant; Natural Resource Manager; Restoration Ecologists, Ecologist; Field Biologist

Science: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.Math: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step "how many

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fish, and snails.

The concept of sustainable is explored by instructing students to find out different way to maintain their ecosystems over time using what they know about the conditions necessary for the living organisms to survive.

Students write an essay or blog on how to protect, appreciate, and take care of a local natural pond, creek, or park.

more" and "how many less" problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets.ELA: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.aIntroduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.bDevelop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.cUse linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.2.dProvide a concluding statement or section.

Social Studies: Students learn about the various types and locations of biomes.


Reducing Our Footprint

Student teams develop a plan for more environmentally friendly transportation methods at their local school.

Students investigate the local environmental problems and alternative solutions associated with caregivers dropping off or picking up students in private

ELA: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the

21st Century Themes:Global AwarenessEnvironmental Literacy

Career Connections:Environmental Scientist, Environmental Attorney, City Management, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Planning; Statisticians





automobiles. When large numbers of automobiles sit idling in front of schools at arrival and dismissal times, air quality problems can result including increases in ambient carbon dioxide levels. Students use mathematics practices to observe and record the number of cars that drop off students each day over a two-week period. Students brainstorm alternative modes of transportation such as walking, biking, and mass transportation. Students develop and promote a school wide plan that includes more environmentally friendly modes of transportation to and from school.This plan is constructed in the form of a formal document that is made available to the school community .

text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

Example of a career in Mathematics: Walt Disney employs mathematicians to develop models to predict the movement and flow of visitors throughout their theme parks and resorts and to and from different sites within the parks.

ELA: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1.aIntroduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1.bProvide reasons that support the opinion.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1.cUse linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1.dProvide a concluding statement or section.

Science: Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.





FOURTH GRADETheme Topic Problem/



Field Station Mapping

Students teams create a plan for the construction of a safe and accessible station to conduct research on predicted volcano activity.

Student teams explore patterns of volcano activity on different landmasses and identify a location for a research station that would remain safe from geological hazards and would be easily accessible.

Social Studies: Maps and map reading; analyzing world maps that show the locations of volcanoes and recent seismic activity


Career Connections:Volcanologist, geologist, geophysicist,Meteorologist, chromatographer

Science:Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.Science:Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.ELA: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.ELA: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.


Harnessing Solar Energy

Student teams will design, construct, and test a system that removes salt from salt water using solar energy that could be used for their selected region of the world.

Science: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.


Learning and Innovation Skills:Creativity and InnovationCritical Thinking and Problem SolvingCommunication and Collaboration

Science: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural

resources and their uses affect the environment. Career Connections:

Materials engineersChemical engineersElectrical engineersIndustrial engineersSemiconductor processorsMachine Tool operatorsWelding, soldering, glazing

Engineering: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.Social Studies: Study populations that have used solar energy for a variety of improvements


Erosion Modeling Student teams will create a model to demonstrate the impact of soil erosion around their school and communicate the problems associated with soil erosion in a blog.

Students can test a variety of apparatuses to spray water in varying quantities and distribution to test their model. Students collect data on the quantify of water, intensity of spray, amount of runoff of water and soil.

Students prepare a graph that depicts the amount of erosion as determined by the amount of dirt washed away as a function of water intensity.

Science: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Career Connections:Urban plannerEnvironmental ScientistNatural Resource TechnicianZoning SpecialistGeologistErosion control inspectorLandscaping

Math: Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.Social Studies: Explore regions that have been historically impacted by landslides and sinkholes. Inform the public of the hazards of living in areas that are prone to erosion.

Sustainable Systems

Hydropower Efficiency

Student teams develop a three dimensional model of a computer assisted image that demonstrates how an engineer may optimize the efficiency of a dam.

Science: Using online simulations, explore how a hydroelectric dam operates.

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are

21st Century Themes: Environmental literacyGlobal Awareness

Career Connection:Civil Engineering

derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Topography

Science: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.Social Studies: Explore the historical development and use of hydroelectric dams, wave power, and tidal power.


Water Conservation

Student teams will develop informational materials for their school and community focused on water conservation generally and decreasing the use of bottled water specifically by use of filtration methods for tap water.

ELA: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2.aIntroduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2.bDevelop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2.cLink ideas within categories of information using words and phrases (e.g., another, for example, also, because).CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2.dUse precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.2.eProvide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation presented.

21st Century themes:Environmental Literacy

Career Connections:Journalism

Science: Generate and compare

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multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans

FIFTH GRADETheme Topic Problem/



Schoolyard Engineering

Student teams design a movable awning for a picnic table located on the schoolyard that provides enough shade throughout recess for adults and students.

Science: Support an argument that the apparent brightness of the sun and stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth.


Career Connections:Graphic artist

Science: Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

Mathematics: Measure and calculate the length of shadows while facing different directions

Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.


Interactions Student teams develop a proposal for the location of a wind turbine in their assigned region.

Social Studies: Develop a proposal for the location of a wind turbine off the east coast of the United States. Investigate US Geography as well as economic factors and feasibility.


Career Connections:Geotechnical EngineerScience: Interaction of the Earth’s

systems – geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.

Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Mathematics: Determine the potential wind-energy generated based upon the speed of wind and duration of wind.

Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.ELA: Present findings to class using PowerPoint, Prezi, or a video


Rainwater Analysis

Student teams develop a rainwater harvesting system for their school.

Student teams gather data related to the amount of rainfall in various locations around the school to determine the best placement for a capture system.

Use self-constructed rain gauges made out of canning jars, measure the amount of rain that falls in different areas of the playground over a month and then estimate the actual amount of rainfall that falls over the entire playground.

Mathematics: Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates


Career Connections:StatisticianHydrologist

Science: Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.Social Studies: Importance of water for agriculture.

Sustainable Systems

Composting Student teams develop a compost system for their school’s cafeteria that makes use of excess food and food waste that is disposed of each day.

Science: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

21st Century Themes: Global AwarenessEnvironmental Literacy

Engineering; Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

ELA: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.


Mitigating Climate Change

Student teams design a solution that mitigates the effects of global climate change in their selected region of the world.

Science: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

21st Century themes:Global AwarenessEnvironmental Literacy

Learning and Innovation Skills:Creativity and innovationCritical Thinking and Problem SolvingCommunication and Collaboration

Engineering: Plan and develop ideas for a prototype of a technological innovation designed to minimize the influence of global climate change.Social Studies: Learn about predicted effects of global climate change of specific Third world countries. Research the effects of global climate change on their assigned country of the world.Mathematics: Develop a graph to represent the data on climate change for their selected region.

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