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​Let's Build Needham Classroom Curriculum​

​In Needham, each engineering design challenge activity in grades 1-5 focuses on energy and reinforces science curriculum taught at the previous grade level. 
 

Curriculum Overview

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Grade              NPS Science Units                                         Let’s Build  Engineering Design Challenge 

K                     Properties of Water                                                         Bears Across the Atlantic

1                     Weather and Seasonal Changes                                  The Power of Waterwheels
                          Life Cycles
                          Air and Wind

2                     Magnets                                                                              Puff Mobiles
                         Soil
                         Trees

3                    Fossils                                                                                  Magnetic Circus
                        Circuits and Pathways
                        Rocks and Minerals

4                   Light and Shadow                                                               Circuits and Alarms
                       Changing Earth
                       Insects


5                  Simple Machines                                                                 Stomp Rockets
                       Vertebrates/Invertebrates
                       Weather and Climate