EdTech Integration

Every design starts here — students model in Tinkercad and iterate on their build before it's ever sliced for printing, from a Rube Goldberg contraption to a green-building concept to a spinning propeller.

Designs come off the Bambu Lab A1 as real, testable objects — this term's favorite was a fleet of student-modded F1 cars, alongside a set of sustainable building models engineered to withstand natural disasters.

Students build and program LEGO SPIKE robots in small teams, moving from a block diagram on the whiteboard to a working robot that senses, moves, and reacts — then put it to the test on a challenge table.

Everyday objects become game controllers — students wire up a Makey Makey circuit and pair it with a Scratch project they've coded themselves, from an "Is It Conductive?" test to a playdoh-and-cardboard compost-sorting game.

Students take on a mission brief, gather data from a simulated system, and map their reasoning back to the standards it's built on — troubleshooting cause-and-effect the way a real systems thinker would.

PhET's simulations let students manipulate variables in real time — a low-stakes way to build intuition for a system before we formalize it with vocabulary and diagrams, like this pair running the Energy Skate Park simulation.

From logo design to video edits with a green screen, Canva is where students polish the visual side of a project — here, designing their own logos and editing a green-screen weather-forecast video.

Students record, edit, and mix podcast episodes in Soundtrap EDU — a genuinely collaborative way to practice speaking, scripting, and audio storytelling, from recording in our podcast booth to publishing a finished episode like "What Would Life on Mars Look Like?"

At the end of a unit, students build a showcase site in Google Sites to document their process and present their finished work — from writing up their pages to getting outside to capture the photos that go on them.

Nearpod lets me build interactive lessons with embedded questions and collaborative boards, so I can see student thinking in real time instead of waiting for a hand to go up.

Earth Cubs' Global Goals units connect sustainability content to hands-on lessons, giving younger students an age-appropriate entry point into the UN Sustainable Development Goals.