STEM EDA
STEM EDA is an engineering design-based, project-driven, multi-subject integrated curriculum that helps establish a key knowledge-base every cybersecurity professional needs. Each unit is designed for a small group of students to lead themselves through immediately applicable content reinforcing cooperative problem solving, decision making, and communication skills, which are necessary to excel in the cybersecurity world. The modular design allows teachers to customize the content to fit their classroom schedule and implementation needs.
In these modules, students investigate the forces experienced by an egg as it falls from a specified height. Students research these forces and use their understanding to design a vessel that prevents an egg from cracking upon landing. Each module is structured around the Engineering Design Process.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students follow the engineering design process to research, classify, and mimic volcanic eruptions for given scenarios.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students use the engineering design process to design and construct paper roller coasters around certain constraints, materials, and themes.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students study the properties, sources, and uses of electricity and electrical circuits then use this knowledge to design and create working devices that use electric current and components to operate.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students study the parts of genetics from biological classification, heredity, and Punnett squares to cellular biology and the parts of certain cells.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students learn the basics of propulsion and energy transfer through the lens of automobiles. Students use the engineering design process to design and test prototype vehicles driven by different forms of propulsion.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students learn the basics of music, sound, wave properties, types of instruments, and encryption through creative hands-on engineering challenges.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students investigate natural and man-made resources, how humans use these resources, and the factors influencing product design, energy conservation, and community development.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students investigate the effects of vibrations and movement on structures then design solutions for counteracting or accommodating both major and minor surface movements.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students investigate the fundamentals of aerodynamics and aerospace design through hands-on projects that account for the net forces effecting object moving through air.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students learn the fundamentals of programing and the programming design process using three different platforms. Each module focuses on a different platform and an activity using that particular platform.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8
Students accurately launch projectiles using catapults. Students follow the engineering design process to design and build working models that they will test and refine.
Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8