Project Based Learning Products
Becoming a Digital Citizen with MAD-learn
In this iBlock, students will learn about what it means to be a digital citizen and the responsibilities that come with it.
Building Literacy: Create a Short Story
In this iBlock, students will develop a short story using their knowledge of literary elements and work through the process of writing a story: character development, narrative arc, developing visuals, reviewing one another’s work, and presenting their final product.
Building Literacy: Design a Comic Book
In this iBlock, students will investigate the history of comics and various comic texts before creating their own masterpiece. With attention to how established comic artists perfect their craft, these modules will help unleash creativity and provide a new means of expression.
Building Literacy: Develop a Play
In this iBlock, that’s exactly what students will explore as they become playwrights. Before writing their play, students will take a closer look at the history of theatre and play structure, then they will write and perform an original one-act play.
Class Pet
In this iBlock, students will learn about different class pets, then choose a robot to represent a particular pet. They will also propose a good classroom home for it and design a presentation to convince the class to vote for their idea.
Clean Water and Sanitation
Throughout this iBlock, students will explore where drinking water comes from, identify contaminants, and ultimately design and engineer their own water filtration system.
Coding a Classification System
In this iBlock, students will build their computer science fluency as they conduct research on a topic of their choosing and develop a fully functional coding application to help them gain a better understanding of their research.
Create a Video Game
In this iBlock, students will create their own compelling video game from start to finish using Bloxels, and then create their own official video game reviews.
Design a Specialty Truck
In this iBlock, students will learn about different types of trucks as well as their unique functions. Students will research the specific uses for each truck and the impact that these trucks may have on a community.
Design Your Own Escape Room
In this iBlock, students will learn more about the history and culture of this “new” form of entertainment, and then plan, design, and construct their very own!
Designing a Board Game
In this iBlock, students will plan a game, research game mechanics, design their play area and pieces, and then determine how to play-test their creation. Finally, they’ll examine how to package and publicize their game, and maybe even present a sales pitch to interested buyers.
Engineering 3D Printed Instruments
In this iBlock, students will investigate the science of sound, how instruments produce sound, and the difference materials can make in producing that sound.
Engineering an Assistive Game Controller
In this iBlock, students will learn about inclusivity, game controller design, and the gaming industry. Then, they’ll work towards creating a game controller for a gamer with disabilities to use with a simple coded video game.
Engineering for Hazardous Weather: Create a Rescue Kit
In this iBlock, students will research what should be included in a rescue kit for different types of extreme weather. Then they’ll create model rescue kits, develop and test kit delivery, and present a weather report to show off their creations.
Engineering for Hazardous Weather: Taking Flood Control to New Heights
In this iBlock, students will consider how and why floods form as well as specific areas of concern. Students will then engineer a lifted house or system to best prepare for, and protect people during severe flooding conditions.
Exploring Native American Culture
In this iBlock, students will explore how geography influenced the lives of different Native American communities. Then they will design and construct a redesigned model of a Native American home structure.
Fashion for Function: Smart Wearables
In this iBlock, students will design a unique piece of wearable technology that fulfills a function. Who knows — maybe one day it will climb to the top of gift idea lists!
Financial Literacy
In this iBlock, students will explore key concepts in personal finance and map out a plan in order to give them a secure financial future.
Geometric Self-Watering Planter
In this iBlock, students will construct a geometric self-watering planter in Tinkercad. This project will utilize advanced skills in CAD software and challenge students to think mathematically while designing.
Get Your Dream Job
In this iBlock, students will explore and identify how to determine if a career is tailored to one’s desired lifestyle goals, skills, and passions. They will create a vision board, build a portfolio, craft application materials, participate in a mock interview, and even showcase their hard work at a career fair!
Jurassic Kids: Design a Dinosaur
In this iBlock, students will embark on a journey to discover unknown facts and features about different types of dinosaurs.
Mars Colony: Engineering Expedition
In this iBlock, students will research space exploration, Mars, and survival essentials before planning for a historic trip to populate a new planet. Students will need to plan and build solutions for the essentials — habitat, transportation, communication, and more.
No Poverty and Zero Hunger
In this iBlock, students will work to help the UN achieve these goals by designing a window planter that will produce low-cost, high-yield crops in the most efficient manner possible.
Prosthetics
In this iBlock, students will navigate through the Engineering Design Process to design and develop a prosthetic device. To complete this task, students will explore 21st century skills such as critical thinking, innovation, and collaboration.
Reimagining Public Transportation
In this iBlock, students will develop an understanding of efficiency by building their own model train, capable of either going faster, or carrying more weight than their peers.
River Management: Assessing Health
In this iBlock, students will engineer a device or system that will sample an environmental parameter that indicates water health.
Robotics: Robotic Amusement Park
In this iBlock, students will research various amusement park rides so that they can design and build their own dream ride. Along the way, they’ll test their design and make improvements.
Robotics: Robotic Assembly Line
In this iBlock, students will learn about the history of assembly lines, the future of assembly lines, and then build a robot to function in an assembly line environment.
Robotics: Robotic Field Day
In this iBlock, students will research the history of past sporting events and create robots to compete in specific games for their very own futuristic robotic field day!
Rube Goldberg Machines
In this iBlock, challenge your students to think outside the box and discover the unexpected kinetic properties in everyday objects as they design their own Rube Goldberg Machine (RGM).
Space Systems: Create a Model of an Eclipse
In this iBlock, students explore the size and scale of our solar system and the phenomenon of eclipses. Then, students get to design and construct a model of our Earth-Sun-Moon system using 3D printers, and use that model to recreate a solar and lunar eclipse.
Space Systems: Engineer a Telescope
In this iBlock, students will learn about the evolution of the telescope and the optical science that makes them work. Using their new or expanded knowledge, students will design and build a telescope, using 3D printed materials and other consumables, to make their own observations about space!
Space Systems: Light and Shadows
In this iBlock, students will be challenged to design their own device to track time. Using CAD software, they will first design, and then 3D print, their device.
Storytelling Through the Ages
Students will develop a new story and work through the process of storyline creation, character development, narrative arc, developing props & visuals, and presenting their final product.
The Cotton Candy iBlock
In this iBlock, students will research the history of sugar, its molecular structure, and even candy making machinery before trying their hand at making their own sweets, including cotton candy!
