Engineering Adventures is a curriculum created especially for kids in grades 3–5 in
out‐of‐school time programs! This curriculum is designed to provide afterschool
educators with valuable engineering resources and content to make learning fun.
Through the Engineering Adventures Curriculum kids follow India and Jacob as they
solve real‐life problems by using the engineering design process. Afterschool
educators can choose from ten units with fun, hands‐on engineering design
challenges based on real events around the world. Currently the Engineering
Adventures Curriculum is complementary for US. Educators.

Learning objectives

Overall goal of the Engineering Adventures Curriculum is to:

•  Introduce students to the Engineering Design Process
•  Help students Connect Engineering, Science and Technology
•  Help students develop Contextual Problem‐Solving Skills
•  Help students develop collaborative team working skills
•  Help students develop communication skills

but each one of the 10 unit has more specific learning objectives.

Available partnership opportunities

The projects can support collaboration with afterschool teachers across the same or different
classes/cohorts. Parents could also use it as an inspiration for various projects kids can work in at
home or plan relative weekend excursion with kids.

Recommended resources

Different resources are required for every unit. Many Engineering Adventures design challenges
use materials that are commonly available at grocery, hardware, or craft stores.
For more information about each unit please visit
https://www.eie.org/engineering‐adventures/curriculum‐units

Organisation in charge of this Accelerator

This Accelerator has been developed by ​EiE (the Boston Museum of Science).

EiE Professional Development  [email protected]​ 

Website: http://www.mos.org/