Module 4: Time Travel Adventure

Learning to Embrace Failure
Engineering Challenges for Grades 3-6

SEL Focus: Resilience
STEM Focus: Simple Machines

Imagineerz@School provides engaging, hands-on STEM and SEL learning experiences for schools and home-based education.

Aligned with CASEL competencies, this program helps students develop problem-solving skills, creativity, and resilience while exploring STEM concepts at their own pace.

SEL Objectives

Foster healthy habits such as failing forward and staying positive by utilizing these social-emotional strategies:

Understand Brain Anatomy & Physiology to learn the roles and interactions between neurons in building habits
Say Whoops!, How?, and Yet! to overcome obstacles
Take Positive Action to form new synaptic pathways and foster new healthy habits

STEM Objectives

Learn from inventors throughout history to incorporate these fundamental Physics concepts into their creations:

Use Levers & Pulleys to redirect force and move heavy objects
Apply Inclined Planes to harness the power of gravity
Incorporate Wheels & Axles to create smooth motion

Video Lessons

Materials

Materials Needed

8 Builders

20-30 pieces of Each Per Student for All 10 Lessons

Construction Paper
Jumbo Craft Sticks
Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil
Cut-Up Cereal Boxes or 22 pt. Chipboard (4×6)*
3 oz. Dixie Cups
Bendy Straws
Twine
Paper Towel Rolls (Optional)*

2 Tools

1 Per 2-3 Students for All 10 Lessons

.94 in. Masking Tape
Scissors*

Tester

1 Per Student

Ping Pong Balls

* = Not provided in kits

Ordering Materials

Click here to order materials on Amazon

The quantities on the Amazon list reflect what you will need for one classroom of 20-24 students. Please adjust quantities if ordering for more or fewer students.
Remember to ask classroom parents for donations of cereal boxes and paper towel rolls. All other materials can be ordered from the list above.

Best Practices

You do not need to give each student their own set of materials. Just lay out all the materials and let them select what they would like to use — the video will tell them how many they can use.
Spread materials throughout the classroom to avoid crowding.
In addition to cereal boxes and paper towel rolls, you can ask classroom parents for other recycled materials, like egg cartons, but we suggest you avoid the following:
- Styrofoam — Classroom forecast: Snow showers!
- Cardboard — You’ll spend all your time helping cut cardboard, rather than i-Can! coaching!
Request that classroom parents cut recycled cereal boxes in half, both lengthwise and crosswise.

Set Up and Tips

Quick and Easy!

1. Lay Out Our Standard Set of Materials:

- Students use the same communal materials across all 10 lessons, so you never need to assemble individual material kits!
- Simply lay out our standard set of materials before each lesson and replenish individual materials as needed.

2. Set Up Testing Stations (If Needed):

- A few lessons require additional set up, such as creating a square with blue tape to use as a target area.
- All special instructions in the Set Up and Tips document below. Print this document and keep it handy to take a quick look before each lesson.

Set Up and Tips Document

Resources

Keep parents informed about Imagineerz

We’ve pre-written a series of emails that explain the core concepts from each lesson so families can reinforce them at home.

Parent Emails

Know a teacher who might enjoy Imagineerz?

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Referral Rewards

So, what did you think?

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