Weekly Lesson Plans: A Wild Ride

Roller Coaster at Sunset

No height restrictions for this ride! Join us as we use our science and engineering skills to build our very own roller coaster.

In A Wild Ride!, your student(s) will learn more about force, motion and the engineering design process through daily lessons, including hands-on activities, experiments and digital resources. See the appropriate grade-bands and topics below to get started!


Grades K-2

Exploring properties of matter, motion, force, engineering design process.

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Grades 3-5

Engineering design process, pushes and pulls (forces), motion, gravity, friction.

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Grades 6-8

Kinetic and potential energy, energy transfer, inertia, newton’s laws, engineering design process.

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