Mapmaker & Navigator
Science
Successful egg drop - students were challenged to design a helmet to protect an egg (aka a brain) from a concussion.
Navigators brainstorming how to keep their egg (aka "brain") safe from a concussion.
Mapmakers working on props for a video about an aquatic food chain.
At The Curiosity Crew, we take time for students to really dig into topics. While learning about methods of seed dispersal, we paused to make our own animals and tested their abilities to help plants with seed dispersal!
Navigators investing state of matter changes and how temperature is affecting during a state of matter change.
Navigators working on a lab to explore what happens to temperature when states of matter change.
Mapmakers working together to build a food chain.
Navigators making a model of a human hand to explore the relationship between the skeletal and muscular systems.
Navigators learning how to prepare microscope slides.
Student image from a Foldscope of red onion skin.
Navigators learning about the skeletal system
Navigators testing models of the human heart.
Navigators observing cell types with a microscope and recording their observations in their science notebook.
Navigators working on a model of their digestive system.
Mapmakers working on a review diorama of a lifecycle.
A mapmaker's successful seed sprouting as part of a conditions necessary for life experiment.
Green leaf under a microscope - image from a student.
Navigator using a foldscope.
Navigators learning about the structure and function of the digestive system.
Navigators working on a stop motion video project to explain Brownian motion and diffusion.
Navigators working on a stop motion video project to explain Brownian motion and diffusion.
Mapmakers exploring the states of matter with oobleck.
Mapmakers exploring states of matter with dry ice.
Mapmakers exploring changing states of matter with dry ice.
Navigators exploring the periodic table and trends of the periodic table by playing a game!
Mapmakers exploring reversible and irreversible changes
Mapmakers exploring magnets
Mapmakers testing magnet strength
Mapmakers testing the strength of magnet fields and what affects a magnetic field
Engaging
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Collaborative
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Hands-On
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Engaging + Collaborative + Hands-On +
We are homeschooling parents too and we know the struggle to find high quality, secular science curricula that’s easy to implement at home and exciting for kids. We didn’t want our kids to just watch science videos. We wanted them to experience the labs and learn by doing. When we couldn’t find it we decided to make this a cornerstone offering at our program.
Our classes provide a chance for students to dive deep into science content in a hands-on, engaging way guided by an expert science educator. Students enjoy real-time problem-solving with their peers. Classes cover a range of topics over all three trimesters and year to year, ensuring students are getting exposed to biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science and are prepared for whatever their next step is.
Past Topics & Themes
Mapmakers Cohort
1st through 3rd Grade
Scale of the Solar System
Earth - gravity, rotation, revolution, seasons, time, orbit
Water Cycle
Weather
Climate
Matter
Dissolving, solutions and crystallization
Rocks and minerals
Fossils
Living, Nature, Human-made
Plants vs. Animals
Life Cycles
Food chains and energy flow in ecosystems
Solids, liquids, gases
Air
Earth’s Atmosphere
Matter
Magnets and magnetic fields
Types of energy - Kinetic and Potential
Navigators Cohort
4th through 5th Grade
Earth - rotation, revolution, seasons
Moon - phases and tides
Water cycle
Weather
Climate
Climate change
Glaciers
Density
Displacement and Buoyancy
Convection, Conduction and Radiation - Heat Transfer
Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
Earthquakes
Cells
Microscopes
Tissues, Organs, Body Systems
Brownian Motion and Diffusion
Atoms, Elements and Compounds
Temperature, Pressure, Volume Relationship
How things fly
Center of Gravity
Momentum and Waves