Chickasaw High School

Mitch goes to Chickasaw High School to learn about the prosthetic legs students in Life Change Club are creating with 3-D printers for people in underdeveloped countries

Integrated into the Physical Science content standards are the disciplinary core ideas of the Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science (ETS) domain, which require students to employ tools and materials to solve problems and to use representations to convey various design solutions.

US Space and Rocket Center

Raine goes to moon and back as she visits US Space and Rocket Center

Grade 6 content focuses on the disciplinary core ideas in the Earth and Space Science domain. The first Earth and Space Science core idea, Earth’s Place in the Universe, describes the universe as a whole and addresses its grand scale in both space and time.

Johnson Control Center

Ann Marie visits Johnson Control Center to learn about fire suppression systems

Systems 23. Design a digital artifact to propose a solution for a content-related problem. Example: Create a presentation outlining how to create a cost-efficient method to melt snow on roads during the winter.

AIDB

Mitch visits the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind STEM bus and builds his own game and programs a robot

Block-based programming language – Any predefined code that lets users create programs by manipulating “blocks” or graphical programming elements, rather than writing code using text with specific syntax rules, sometimes called visual coding, drag-and-drop programming, or graphical programming blocks.

Vertical Growing-Auburn

Mitch visits a mobile farm that travels the state behind an 18-wheeler to learn about hydroponics and vertical farming.

Objective SCI.7.9.2: Investigate various agricultural techniques that promote soil
conservation (e.g. composting, replanting, alternating crops, and notill farming).