The Playnovate STEAM Learning System includes 200+ online-offline lessons.
A STEAM Curriculum in a Box
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Online and/or offline interactions and explorations shape students' understanding of how the intersections of science, technology, engineering, aesthetics, and math apply to everyday life. Lessons engage children in the practices of scientists and engineers. Children observe, wonder, ask questions, analyze, figure out possible causes, and design and test solutions.
Playnovate offers 200+ STEAM lessons that are the building blocks to understanding and innovating our complex world.
Lessons are designed along with developmental age levels and anchored to the latest neuroscience research on how learners think and learn. Each student is acknowledged as unique in abilities, knowledge, and challenges.
We offer 3 types of lessons - 5 Trial Lessons, 4 Theme Lessons, and 6 Leveled Lessons. The Leveled Lessons are the most extensive. They are ideal for learning STEAM. Each level comprises 30 lessons designed for ages 5-11 years. Each lesson includes hands-on science and engineering projects designed around an inquiry learning problem and 21st century skills.
Trial Lessons
Trial lessons are perfect for your summer camp or school year offerings. Each lesson focuses on one core scientific and engineering concept. They are ideal for 1 to 2 hours of class time. Over 100,000 children have learned STEAM education by starting with our Trail Lessons.
Super Vacuum Cleaner
Build and test a working vacuum cleaner with a motor and fan. Explore how the laws of air pressure and principles of industrial design can make a vacuum cleaner work.
Secret of Colors
Build a color centrifuge using a small motor and a wheel. Learn to separate different color components, and learn the concepts of solubility and chromatography.
Magic Headset
Build your own headphones with magnets and balloons, and understand the nature of sound and the magnetic effects of electric current.
Robot Dishwasher
Build a robot dishwasher with mechanical wheels. Did you know that mobile phones vibrate? Find out why gravity and centripetal force are the culprits.
Acoustic Transmitter
Acoustic Transmitter Trace the vibrations of sound using laser reflections.
Theme Lessons
Theme Lessons are project-based learning units that engage students in solving bigger and more complex problems. Each of these lessons typically take about 3-4 hours. However, students may extend the class into an additional 2-3 hours by building upon design concepts onto the basic lesson requisites.
3D Roller Coaster
Design and build a 3D paper roller coaster. Learn by applying Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion. Explore energy, speed, friction, gravity, and centripetal force.
Design City Lights
Design, construct, set up the electrical infrastructure, and light up a city. Learn how to use and design with circuits, electrons, charges, resistors, batteries, and switches, and LEDs.
Dinosaur Time Machine
Take you back into the historical time where the dinosaurs roamed our planet. Excavate the dinosaur fossils like that an archaeologist. You will crack open the three-layer geological rock model and excavate nine simulated dinosaur fossils. You will record, classify, analyze, research, and reconstruct the dinosaur habitat.
Forensic Science
Solve a mystery as a crime scene detective. Use forensic science techniques to gather facts in 6 chemistry experiments.
Leveled Lessons
STEAM learning deepens in Playnovate's Leveled lessons! The sets of lessons are designed for one and more weeks of summer & extended enrichment programs. Playnovate offers a complete, comprehensive, and holistic STEAM learning path for K-5 students. Each level comprises 30 hands-on lessons, a total of 180 lessons for 6 levels. Globally, over 10,000 children have completed Playnovate's Leveled lessons.
Context-based exploration of authentic problems embedded in everyday situations
Multidisciplinary sense making and knowledge-building
Hands-on experiments, simulations, and prototypes
Analytical thinking, data-drive scientific reasoning
Cooperative communication and leadership skills
Creative and solutions oriented
Cultivating individual STEAM passions and interests
Playnovate Student Materials
Creatively designed lesson presentations guided by our mascots
STEAM boxes & workbooks
Mind Map encapsulates the learning of the lessons
Lesson closing quiz
“DIY Kit” lesson videos