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The Vivify team is on a mission to re-engineer STEM education! We are dedicated to creating authentic, engaging, and accessible K-12 STEM lessons that progressively develop critical STEM skills, knowledge, and habits of mind. Designed by a team of educators and engineers, our lessons are low-prep and classroom-tested. Join the over 25,000 educators, and vivify your classroom today!
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Design a Sustainable Eco-House 5E STEM Project (Environmental Science)
In the Eco-House Extravaganza project, students work in teams to complete the ultimate project-based learning STEM experience: planning and designing an energy-efficient, eco-friendly house in the U.S. city of their choice. This product includes planning sheets and suggested resources for lessons as well as an interactive game-like planning tool that can help students “research” and develop ideas for design solutions while working within constraints such as budgeting. Project-based learningReal
4th - 8th
Earth Sciences, Environment, General Science
NGSS, TEKS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
+4
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
National Park Research & Design: 5E STEM Project (Plan a trip!)
Design the NEXT United States National Park! Project Overview:This lesson sequence is intended as an introductory or end-of-unit project for a unit on National Parks. Perfect for 4th - 6th grade, students will: Learn the history of National ParksConduct a Virtual Field Trip to research and compare parksResearch a National Park, including location, climate, animals, plants, and visitor experience. Compare perspectives of the visitor, park ranger, and naturePlan a trip to the National Park, inclu
4th - 6th
Biology, Environment, General Science
NGSS
MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-1
, MS-ETS1-1
+1
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Design a Zoo! 5E STEM Project (Animal Habitats)
Design a Zoo! 5E STEM Project Activity OverviewThis life science STEM research and design project covers topics related to ecology and biomes. The unit is intended for upper elementary or middle school (4th - 6th grade) and covers science concepts and engineering design with a research component.Your Mission: Your class has been asked to help the local zoo redesign its animal enclosures. The zoo wants to create new habitats that are perfect for the animals and enjoyable for visitors. To start, y
4th - 6th
Biology, Environment, General Science
NGSS
MS-LS2-5
, 5-LS2-1
, MS-LS2-1
+2
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Chile Solar Car STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Explore the largest solar power plant in the world located in Chile as you take your students on an educational adventure with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the importance of clean energy and the use of solar power. Students will learn about solar cars as they use them to complete a mission! They must make their solar car navigate the mountains and ocean surrounding the solar power plant using the engineering design process. Students also learn
K - 5th
Engineering, Environment
CCSS, NGSS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.A.2
+8
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
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The Vivify team is on a mission to re-engineer STEM education! We are dedicated to creating authentic, engaging, and accessible K-12 STEM lessons that progressively develop critical STEM skills, knowledge, and habits of mind. Designed by a team of educators and engineers, our lessons are low-prep and classroom-tested. Join the over 25,000 educators, and vivify your classroom today!
Teaching style
STEM transforms classrooms into an exciting world of curiosity, problem-solving, and creativity. Successful STEM education is an empowering interdisciplinary approach that brings math, science, and engineering concepts to life through challenging opportunities that mimic the complexities and excitement of the real world.
In our STEM classrooms, students apply math and science to a problem, using the engineering design process through technology. Our lessons follow the 3 Stages of STEM philosophy:
Stage 1 includes activities like tower challenges where students learn how to work together and develop essential habits of mind.
Stage 2 is where you introduce the engineering design process and add math and science, then use technology to solve a problem.
Stage 3 consists of longer, more complex challenges with a research component. In this stage, students solve a more open-ended problem and there is typically a final project that they present.
My own education history
Vivify is a STEM education company that is co-founded by Natasha Wilkerson and Claire Meschkat, two aerospace engineers turned educators who live in Texas.
Claire is a Pre-K thru 9th grade STEM teacher and STEM program coordinator at a Texas private school. She specializes in developing engineering curricula for elementary and middle school grades including the STEM Explorers series. Claire has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters of Education in Educational Psychology - Creativity & Cognition from Texas A&M University. Before Vivify, she worked as an aerospace engineer at Boeing Commercial Airlines, Boeing Space Exploration, & Air Tractor, Inc.
Natasha is the founder of Space Club, a K-8 informal STEM program that is now an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Cosmic Leap Foundation. Natasha specializes in research and development of engineering curricula and programming for middle school. Natasha has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Texas A&M University. Before Vivify, Natasha worked as an engineer for the United States Department of the Navy in radar and satellite spectrum management.
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