Using STEM to build Durable Skills
Because students need more than worksheets to learn resilience or problem solving
Our ready-to-run K-5 curriculum provides both:
Explicit Durable Skills Instruction
Concepts, Language, and Tools
Engineering Challenges
A safe and fun space to practice the skills
As towers lean, ziplines stall, and teammates disagree,
students practice calming down, listening to other perspectives, and trying again.
A coherent K–5 progression
One module per grade – each with its own Skill and STEM focus.
Kindergarten
Skill: Emotional Regulation
STEM: Makerspace Techniques
CASEL: Self-Management
Grade 1
Skill: Growth Mindset
STEM: Structural Engineering
CASEL: Self-Awareness
Grade 2
Skill: Problem Solving
STEM: Anatomy of Movement
CASEL: Responsible Decision-Making
Grade 3
Skill: Emotional Regulation (Brain Science)
STEM: Space Mission Engineering
CASEL: Self-Awareness & Self-Management
Grade 5
Skill: Collaboration
STEM: Simple Machines Build-a-Thon
CASEL: Relationship Skills
Aligned to the CASEL framework and CA NGSS engineering design.
For every grade level
10
lessons
50 minutes each
1
materials kit
used across all 10 lessons
0
STEM expertise needed
Instruction is video-led
Running a Lesson
Prep:
3 minutes
Lay out the standard materials and press play.
Payoff:
50 minutes
Student voice and ownership.
Teachers connect with students over ideas, struggles, and triumphs.
The language and mindset transfer into math, writing, and beyond.
Practicing in a safe space on challenges they want to solve helps students internalize the skills—and carry them into the school day:
A difficult math problem
“I don’t get this yet.”
Classmates disagree
“What’s your perspective?”
A first draft falls flat
“How can I level this up?”
A few voices dominate
“Step up, step down.”
Two offices. One purchase.
Student Services sees
✓ A CASEL-aligned skill progression
✓ Language students can use in hard moments
✓ Authentic practice in collaboration
+
Curriculum & Instruction sees
✓ CA NGSS-aligned engineering
✓ Students use design thinking – ideate, prototype, test, and iterate
✓ Visible student problem solving
One purchase, one time block, one training — instead of two programs competing for precious classroom time.
How can Imagineerz support your initiatives?
Imagineerz isn’t one more thing—it makes the work you’re already doing more effective by adding hands-on practice.
Active SEL
Pair shared SEL language and tools with hands-on challenges where students practice them.
PBIS Beyond Posters
Turn schoolwide expectations into positive learning behaviors students can practice and use.
STEM Enrichment
Build critical thinking through engaging, CA NGSS-aligned engineering and design challenges.
Portrait of a Learner
Move critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, and resilience from language into action.
Expanded Learning
Bring ready-to-run, purposeful STEM and durable-skill practice to after-school and summer programs.