Curriculum Samples – PCS Digital Resources

Grades: K-1, 2-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Take learners on an eco-conscious, student-driven STEAM journey to explore Boats, Trains, Bikes and Cars. With hands-on builds, problem-solving challenges, critical and creative thinking activities, arts connections and so much more, each 40-page activity book pairs reusable manipulatives and grade-appropriate educator resources with…
Grades: TK-K • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Take flight with this hands-on STEAM curriculum specially designed for transitional and kindergarten students. Learners explore hot air balloons and airplanes through activities that integrate multiple subjects including math and English Language Arts while promoting creativity, problem-solving and teamwork. Prepare learners for elementary school…
Grades: TK-K • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ All aboard for a STEAM-powered transportation adventure where young minds explore the captivating worlds of trains and boats. Through activities that integrate multiple subjects including math and English Language Arts while promoting creativity, problem-solving and teamwork, this enrichment program prepares learners for elementary school…
Grades: TK-K • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Plant the seeds of discovery by exploring the origin of food. Farms highlights the animals, machines and buildings while Gardens has students design a greenhouse and plant a mini garden. The curriculum integrates multiple subjects through creativity, problem solving and critical thinking with engaging,…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Through 12-lessons and mock survival situations, learners explore positive character development and practice knot tying, water purification and compass navigation skills. This hands-on, collaborative, social-emotional learning curriculum brings STEM to the great outdoors through exercise and movement. Students problem-solve and put their skills to…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ In Summer Camp Classics, students tackle creative-thinking and social-emotional learning challenges as they collaborate to construct friendship bracelets, design leaf prints and blueprint new ways to make s’mores, discovering and reflecting on their strengths with this STEAM-filled arts and crafts program. You may also…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Get creativity flowing with Structural Design. Whether they’re exploring advanced building and blueprinting techniques, integrating mechanics into construction or investigating the engineering design process, learners develop an understanding and appreciation of the real-world applications of architecture they see every day. You may also like:
Grades: 6-12 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Become a mindful digital trailblazer! Prioritizing responsibility and positivity, learners work collaboratively to develop authentic, honest, and reliable personal brands. Hands-on video production and scriptwriting promote a growth mindset and media literacy, while cultural awareness and social-emotional learning equip learners to navigate the digital…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Students collaborate in the fresh air to investigate how discs fly with spin (lift), angular momentum (thrust), shape (drag) and weight (gravity). Embrace exercise and movement by investigating the most effective throwing, flying and catching techniques. Gain an understanding of the forces of motion…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ In this reusable, collaborative program, learners turn the study of motion and mass into hands-on projects and engineering design challenges. Spin, toss, race and problem-solve with metal eggs while studying the ideas of motion through iterative thinking and social-emotional learning. Reinforce physics concepts with…
Grades: 6-12 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Amplify student voices with the popularity of Podcasting! Create imaginative and original stories through collaborative learning. Hands-on curriculum includes curated content from top podcasters who offer their advice to up-and-coming audio artists. Scaffolded lessons break down the creative process step-by-step for added accessibility to…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ BrickLAB bricks guide inquiry-driven examinations of the world of genetics and heredity. With scaffolded lessons, learners review the basics of human inheritance and trait variations. Through 12 reusable, hands-on activities, extensions and built-in assessments, watch as the intricate coding of genes and the impacts…
Grades: 6-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ In this kinesthetic learning program, students reinforce STEM through 60-second challenges. Each lesson, learners collaborate to utilize household items and micro-challenges to demonstrate the engineering design process and explore the expansive world of STEM. As the challenges progress, students problem-solve, move quickly and apply…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ BrickLAB Brain Builders engages students through hands-on science and engineering challenges. Whether they’re using logic, problem-solving or translating abstract ideas into concrete models, this collaborative, social-emotional learning program is a sure-fire way to introduce interactive STEM learning into any environment. You may also like:
Grades: 4-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Join an interstellar odyssey that fuses robotics, space exploration and coding. Collaborate to construct an interplanetary city and master engineering design with the mBot Neo robot. Brace for an intergalactic inquiry-driven STEM experience that’s both educational and a blast. Let your creativity and critical…
Grades: 4-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Explore the intersection of art and technology with drones! Join the ranks of visionary drone designers who collaborate to costume, choreograph and code mini drones in creative performances. Unleash your imagination and problem-solving skills and discover STEAM careers through this artistic and innovative application…
Grades: 4-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Embark on a sky-high adventure with mini drones! Our 12 one-hour lessons offer an exciting introduction to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Students delve into collaborative, hands-on experiences, prioritizing safety, teamwork and real-world applications. This inquiry-driven curriculum explores drone physics and drone piloting, fostering critical…
Grades: 4-8 • Students: Up to 6 per kit • Contact Hours: 25+ This fast-moving, reusable kit prepares students to adapt to today’s rapidly evolving technologies. From wheels and pulleys to types of gears, this scaffolded curriculum has students problem-solve and utilize the engineering design process as they build upon each day’s iterative concepts to…
Grades: 4-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Developed around reusable, application-based STEM curriculum, tablets and free editing software to make filmmaking fun and approachable, Video Production empowers students with technical skills in video filming and editing. From collaborative storyboarding to lighting and audio, each scaffolded activity builds upon the previous day,…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Survey art history by experimenting with the artistic traditions of the world. Take creative thinking and cultural awareness head-on by examining the STEAM processes that make art possible. Developed with the help of local artists, Traveling Artist embodies STEAM learning with multi-subject exploration and…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Let creativity run wild with a thrilling investigation of mechanical engineering. With step-by-step, hands-on STEM builds to introduce each simple machine, learners advance through 12, one-hour lessons. They investigate levers, pulleys and inclined planes, and enhance critical thinking skills while building upon existing knowledge…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Examine human anatomy and physiology through fast-paced, engineering design activities. Utilizing exercise and movement as a teaching tool, learners unravel the mysteries of the human body through problem-solving activities like running for a minute to measure heart rate and discovering the importance of proper…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Get ready for a STEAM-filled exploration of plants and seeds! Challenge learners to channel their inner storytellers to create a free-standing, sculptural artwork modeling the lifecycle of a plant. Each lesson builds problem-solving skills, confidence and creativity as students explore the science of plants…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Take the dive with Oceanic Exploration. Through engineering design activities, challenge learners to collaborate on sustainability projects, answering and reflecting on important sea-dwelling questions. With action-packed, hands-on STEM activities, discover the physical and geological sciences that underpin all ocean life. You may also like:
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Packed with 12 engaging, one-hour aviation lessons, this program combines the engineering design process, creative thinking, arts and collaboration to challenge learners to investigate the wonders of flight. Whether they’re designing experiments or observing physics concepts, guide students through the foundations of scientific inquiry…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Dare to be like Da Vinci by tapping into learners’ innate curiosity. Explore the many questions and discoveries made by one of the greatest minds of all time. Through hands-on STEAM activities and creative thinking, learners investigate how subjects ranging from art to zoology…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Take engineering design to the next level with a hands-on look at the impact of natural disasters. Build a Better World challenges learners to collaborate on STEM projects as they problem-solve and model earthquake stability, hurricane winds and system integrity to better understand how…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ From walls and arches to post-and-lintel building techniques, use hands-on manipulatives, multi-subject integration and the engineering design process to replicate some of history’s most famous designs, then uncover different architectural considerations from across the globe through 12 reusable, one-hour lessons. Encourage creativity and STEM…
Grades: 4-6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 52+ BrickLAB STEM Foundations is your STEM library, with lesson sets in physics, technical communication, construction engineering and math. With over 52 hours of stimulating, reusable, real-world building adventures, this turn-key STEM enrichment solution engages a wide variety of age levels through multi-subject integration, social-emotional…
Grades: 5-6 • Students: Up to 24 • Contact Hours: 70+ Discover STEM LAB 5-6 easily integrates into any learning environment looking for reusable, scaffolded STEM invigoration. Whether it’s the engineering design process or a survey of sustainability, this curriculum contains over 70 hours of enrichment, where student exploration and creative thinking are fostered through…
Grades: 3-4 • Students: Up to 24 • Contact Hours: 100+ Inspire upcoming generations to pursue careers in STEM through reflective, experiential activities in every facet of STEM. Whether it’s the engineering design process or math concepts, these collaborative mini-makerspaces reach students using modern technology to instill real-life skills and bring learning to life through…
Grades: 1-5, 6-12 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 60+ Spark a love of the silver screen with application-based, collaborative curriculum and survey digital documentaries, historical recreations and original films! With a simple startup, step-by-step scaffolded activities and built-in reflections, this series easily introduces challenging video production skills into any learning environment as…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Explore our complex world through creative, learn-by-doing STEAM projects. Leave no stone unturned as students reflect on the unique places and creatures they encounter over 12, one-hour, hands-on lessons. Cultivate art and language skills, promote global awareness and engage in exercise and movement while…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Excite students by integrating STEM into their favorite sports activities with collaborative learning experiences. Each day, learners investigate the mechanics of a different movement, connecting STEM concepts like the forces of motion and the influence of gravity through exercise and movement in this action-packed,…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Explore computer programming through cutting-edge curriculum and Scratch, free software that combines creative thinking and intrinsic motivation! Utilizing application-based learning and 12 scaffolded, one-hour projects, learners expand their skills through iterative thinking and problem-solving challenges as they build their own interactive storyboards and games…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ At World of Wonders camp, engage in hands-on STEAM activities that foster collaboration, creativity and cultural awareness. Through project-based learning and iterative thinking, learners tackle problem-solving challenges that promote critical thinking. Explore ancient wonders through art projects and interactive experiences that spark positivity and…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Dissect superhero skillsets in 12, one-hour STEM lessons in biology, engineering design and technology. Each unit is primed to invigorate any learning environment through hands-on, social-emotional learning activities. Dive headfirst into the comic universe where student character development, multi-subject integration, creative thinking and community…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Calling all programmers and musicians! Rockin’ Robots is your chance to use Sphero indi robots on a guided tour through the STEAMtastic fusion of music and robotics. If exploring songs, crafting instruments, investigating sound effects and designing a melodic coding challenge sounds fun, then…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Cast off onto the seven seas with STEM experiments, hands-on design trials, problem solving and positive group discussions. Engage student senses, curiosity and creative thinking skills. Challenge them to collaborate by forging catapults, fashioning treasure maps and reflecting on their adventures! Action, intrigue and…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Unearth dirt’s origins, and differentiate it from soil. Become a soil engineer by digging like a mole and building like a beaver. Explore global uses of dirt for dyeing clothes and building homes. Through multi-subject integration, learners collaborate, engineer, and reflect, gaining a holistic…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Students build fully functional robots using Cubelets®, the modular building blocks. Expand each activity with scaffolded lessons and robots that move, sense and adapt. With activities centered around social-emotional learning, collaboration, the engineering design process and a growth mindset, introduce your youngest roboticists to…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ BrickLAB Magic Beans brings fairy tales to life through thrilling STEAM, language arts and collaborative communication activities. Designed with a focus on arts integration, each of the 12, one-hour lessons challenges hands-on creativity as students work together to build the characters and stage props…
Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ per grade level BrickLAB Core seamlessly melds a dynamic, multi-subject approach to STEAM enrichment. With twelve one-hour hands-on lessons in Science, Math, Social Studies and the Language Arts, challenge students to put their creative thinking and problem-solving skills to…
Grades: 1-3 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Explore the diversity of animal adaptations, the differences in habitats and biological diversity through this hands-on, life science program. With hands-on creative thinking, collaboration and multi-subject integration, BrickLAB Zoo fosters a unique bond to the Earth’s biospheres and the vital roles animals play in…
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 24+ per grade level Housing 12, two-hour units, BrickLAB Tech combines the power of collaborative learning with the art of engineering design in an exploration of technology. Expand your learners’ creative thinking and problem-solving skills with captivating, reusable, hands-on STEM projects…
Grades: 4-8 • Students: Up to 30 • Contact Hours: 12+ Containing everything students need to create their own movies, including clay, editing software and cameras, each application-based lesson melds collaborative learning with creative thinking as students record, dub and edit their own films. This fully-reusable STEAM Enrichment Program is scaffolded with daily projects, technological…