Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Informal Education
Subject
Engineering Design, Technology, Robotics, Rocketry
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Mobile Apps
Young participants work as engineers to design and build rockets and rovers. Eight activities help elementary students learn about engineering, technologies and rockets.
Use this unit for afterschool or out-of-school-time programs or other informal education settings. This unit includes a downloadable educator’s/facilitator’s guide, scoring rubric, a parent letter, an audio message, iOS app, and a journal. Some resources are available in Spanish.
This activity is brought to you by a partnership with NASA and the Museum of Science, Boston’s “Engineering Is Everywhere” curricula through NASA’s Science Activation program. “Engineering is Elementary” is a part of The National Center for Technological Literacy (NCTL) at the Museum of Science, Boston.
More “Engineering Is Everywhere” units:
In Good Hands: Engineering Space Gloves (Grades 3-5)
The Sky’s the Limit: Engineering Flight Technology (Grades 3-5)
Testing the Waters: Engineering a Water Reuse Process (Grades 6-8)
Worlds Apart: Engineering Remote Sensing Devices (Grades 6-8)