Innovation Development

Learners will put together a community newspaper to provide access to useful information to the community. They will explore the different sections in a newspaper and identify the sections they can keep in their community newspaper to make it engaging, fun, and useful. As they work on the community newspaper, they will learn to use complete sentences to express their ideas, opinions, and facts.

LEADING QUESTION

What does it take to make a newspaper for our community

Learners will learn how force, pressure, and friction work in the real world
and unleash their inner engineer by creating their own Rube Goldberg
machine!

Leading question:

Can you build a machine that will be useful and fun?

Learners practice their reading and data handling skills and discover the similarities and differences between your dialect and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

LEADING QUESTION:

How is my dialect different from (and similar to) MSA?

Learners will explore the fascinating forces of nature and learn all about the
causes and effects of lightning and earthquakes to design structures that can
withstand these natural disasters.

Leading question:

Can you build an earthquake or lightning resistant house?

Water Conservation: From Awareness to Action 

Learners will make materials to spread awareness about the need and ways to conserve water in their community. They will do this based on the concepts of causes of water scarcity, water usage in our daily lives, water cycle, and rainwater harvesting to do so. 

Learners will explore celestial bodies and how they are connected to our
day-to-day lives. They will then make their own rockets that can travel to
distant planets and capture details of imagined alien lives that exist on
them.

Leading question:

How are the celestial bodies related to our daily lives?

Learners will explore the steps followed in cultivating crops and growing
their own plants. They will then design an irrigation/ agricultural tool.
Finally, they will set up a farmer's market in which they will sell their
produce and the irrigation/ agricultural tool that they designed.

Leading question:

Can you cultivate and sell your own crops?

Learners will understand and apply the concepts of heat absorption and insulation to design and create a solar water heater. They will also understand the workings of a thermometer and use it to measure the temperature of heated water.

LEADING QUESTION:

How hot can water get if I heat it only using sunlight?