STEM and Durable Skills in One.
Give children recycled materials, tape, and a problem without an obvious answer—and cool learning opportunities appear:
- Ideas fail.
- Teammates disagree.
- Students try again.
Imagineerz’s CA NGSS-aligned K–5 curriculum pairs open-ended engineering challenges with explicit instruction in problem solving, collaboration, and resilience.
The bridge will fail. That’s the point.
Students build solutions using a design-thinking process. As towers lean, ziplines stall, and ideas collide, they put the language and tools from their video lessons into action.
Understand
Students
Learn concepts and tools; understand the challenge.
Teachers
Play the video lesson and check understanding.
Ideate
Students
Brainstorm ways to tackle the challenge.
Teachers
Encourage creativity and diverse thinking.
Prototype
Students
Build, get stuck, and use the tools to keep going.
Teachers
Ask questions, connect, and guide student thinking.
Test
Students
Test and iterate to build a solution that meets the challenge.
Teachers
Prompt reflection and support another attempt.
STEM is visible in what students create.
Durable skills are visible in how they get there.
STEM learning builds across K–5.
One module per grade, each with its own STEM focus.
Kindergarten
Makerspace Techniques
Build with different materials.
Durable skill
Emotional Regulation
Grade 1
Structural Engineering
Build strong and stable structures.
Durable skill
Growth Mindset
Grade 2
Anatomy of Movement
Build animals that move using legs, wings, and spines.
Durable skill
Problem Solving
Grade 3
Space Mission Engineering
Build solutions for space-mission challenges.
Durable skill
Emotional Regulation (Brain Science)
Grade 4
Simple Machines
Build simple machines that make work easier.
Durable skill
Resilience
Grade 5
Simple Machines Build-a-Thon
Build engineering designs that combine simple machines.
Durable skill
Collaboration
Aligned to CA NGSS engineering design.
10 ready-to-run lessons per grade.
50 minutes each.
1
kit
The same materials for every lesson.
3
minute prep
Lay out materials and press play.
0
STEM expertise needed
Videos deliver the instruction. Teachers guide the thinking.
No lesson-by-lesson assembly or supply hunt.
Teachers connect with students as they build, test, and rethink their ideas.
STEM Enrichment in action
Every science student gets to become the problem solver.
At St. Nicholas Catholic School, science educators use Imagineerz schoolwide to supplement the core curriculum with open-ended design challenges students are eager to take on.
All
students
Science
educator-led
Core+
enrichment
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“A student was having a conflict at recess and was using the Imagineerz verbiage to help himself through it. Our principal heard him say ‘This is a Stop Sign!’ and he coached another friend to do the i-Can! calm down strategy, with hand motions too!”
Cliona OKeefe
Science Teacher, St. Nicholas Catholic School