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
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