Tech Machines

Transform your children ages 3-6 into expert builders! With the Tech Machines set  we'll help children develop their fine motor and problem-solving skills while simultaneously unleashing their creativity as they construct classic machines.

The Coding Express unit uses a relevant theme that naturally incorporates early coding skills. Throughout the unit, students in grades Pre-K to K will intuitively use computational thinking to develop designs and express ideas as they build a train and tracks, and position action bricks to affect the train’s behavior. The lessons also provide fun and engaging opportunities for students to explore early coding-related concepts and think like digital age learners as they build train tracks of various shapes. Most importantly, the lessons will help students to become problem-solvers by enhancing their creativity, collaboration, and communication skills.

These seven lessons will introduce students in grades K -2 to the process of asking and answering questions, data analysis, and how to present their ideas. They'll work toward determining whether design solutions work as they were intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

This unit will develop your students in grades 3-5 understanding of forces and motion as they engage in and conduct investigations about the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces. They'll investigate the patterns in an object's motion, developing and sharpening their ability to predict future motion. Along the way, they'll develop their collaborative conversation skills as they effectively engage in a range of discussions.

This unit will develop your students, in grades 3-5, understanding of energy, energy transfer, and collision. They'll explore ways of using observation skills as they anticipate the outcomes of changes in energy during a collision, describe the relationship between energy and speed, and predict how energy moves from place to place. They'll also broaden their understanding of energy conversion (potential and kinetic) by investigating a solution that converts energy from one form to another, testing the solution to improve and refine its function.

This unit will challenge your students in grades 6 -8  to apply their scientific inquiry skills to provide evidence of the change in an object’s motion based on its force and mass. They'll apply Newton’s three laws of motion as they design, develop, and optimize a solution involving the collision of two objects. Throughout these lessons, they'll strengthen their oral communication skills in collaborative discussions, presenting and analyzing their solutions.

In this unit, your students in grades 6-8 will create clearly named variables and lists representing different data types, and perform basic math operations on their values. They'll learn how to make cloud data useful and reliable, improve their programs to refine a solution, and design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.