How can we make something new that was not there before?

7.1 chemical reactions & matter

14 lessons | 25 days of instruction

This unit on chemical reactions and matter transformations begins as students consider what happens to a bath bomb when it is added to water. This and related phenomena (where adding a solid to water resulted in gas bubbles appearing) leads to a broader set of students’ questions around: How can we make something new that was not there before?

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How can we use chemical reactions to design a solution to a problem?

7.2 chemical reactions & energy

10 lessons | 21 days of instruction

Students are introduced to the anchoring phenomenon—a flameless heater in a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) and collect evidence to support the idea that these heaters are undergoing chemical reactions as they get warm. Students have an opportunity to reflect on the engineering design process, defining stakeholders, and refining the criteria and constraints for the design solution. Students design homemade heaters designs and go through a series of iterative testing and redesigning.

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How do things inside our bodies work together to make us feel the way we do?

7.3 metabolic reactions

15 lessons | 29 days of instruction

This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with students exploring a real case study of a middle-school girl named M’Kenna, who reported some alarming symptoms to her doctor. Her case sparks questions and ideas for investigations around trying to figure out which pathways and processes in M’Kenna’s body might be functioning differently than a healthy system and why. Through this work of figuring out what is causing M’Kenna’s symptoms, the class discovers what happens to the food we eat after it enters our bodies and how M’Kenna’s different symptoms are connected.

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Where does food come from and where does it go next?

7.4 matter cycling & photosynthesis

15 lessons | 29 days of instruction

Students reflect on what they ate for breakfast and consider which breakfast items might be from plants. This discovery leads them to wonder how plants are getting these food molecules and where a plant’s food comes from. Students explain that the pieces of their food are constantly recycled between living and nonliving parts of a system.

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SINGLE KIT | $317

All materials for 1 class

MULTI KIT | $435

Materials for 6 sections

ADD-ON | $129

Consumables for 1 class

SINGLE KIT | $208

All materials for 1 class

MULTI KIT | $247

Materials for 6 sections

ADD-ON | $73

Consumables for 1 class