• Participate in a supported learning community alongside your peers to build content and pedagogical knowledge and skills. (Common to all courses)
• Experience phenomena driven lessons which model three dimensional NGSS teaching and learning appropriate for 3rd–8th grade students. (Common to all courses)
• Engage in the engineering design and science inquiry cycles.
• Explore the universal laws that describe force and motion.
• Apply these laws to understanding the Earth-Moon-Sun relationship.
• Understand Earth's place in the solar system and the closest space neighbors.
• Investigate how the nature of light is essential in observing and comprehending the vast universe.

NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS2: Motion and stability: forces and interactions

• PS2.A: Forces and motion
• PS2.B: types of interactions
• PS2.C: stability and instability in physical systems

PS4: waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer

• PS4.A: wave properties
• PS4.B: electromagnetic radiation
• PS4.C: information technologies and instrumentation

ESS1: Earth’s place in the universe

• ESS1.A: The universe and its stars
• ESS1.B: Earth and the solar system

ETS1: engineering design

• ETS1.A: defining and delimiting an engineering problem
• ETS1.B: developing possible solutions
• ETS1.C: optimizing the design solution

ETS2: links among engineering, technology, science and society

• ETS2.A: interdependence of science, engineering, and technology
• ETS2.B: Influence of engineering, technology, and science on society and the natural world