IDL Labs
We love what we do! This includes working with students and teachers. Our team has been working diligently to enhance our content, and to offer you and your students everything you have experienced with us in the past. We want to continue to be a resource to teachers and students VIRTUALLY!
Each month, we offer a new schedule of 45-minute lessons including topics based on ELA, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Art lessons. All sessions will be led virtually by our teaching staff.
How does it work?
All sessions are led by our teaching staff Monday-Friday. Our sessions are broken out by grade level, by subject type. Each lesson is up to 45 minutes long and you have the option to choose which time best fits your schedule by choosing one of the times below:
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | 12:15 pm | 1:15 pm | 2:15 pm |
October IDL Labs
Kindergarten
Halloween STEM Challenge: Candy Carriers
Is there a trick to getting some treats? Using the Engineering Design Process, students will work individually to create a paper basket that can hold the most candy corn. Classroom teachers will be asked to supply candy corn.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science:
● K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
● K-2-ETS1-2. Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
● K-2-ETS1-3. Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
1st Grade
Halloween STEM Challenge: Candy Carriers
Is there a trick to getting some treats? Using the Engineering Design Process, students will work individually to create a paper basket that can hold the most candy corn. Classroom teachers will be asked to supply candy corn.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science:
● K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
● K-2-ETS1-2. Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
● K-2-ETS1-3. Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
2nd Grade
Spiders
Spin a web of learning about these fascinating eight legged creatures. Find out about spiders from around the world and around your backyard. Students will learn the parts of a spider, different types of spiders, and how they eat through a hands-on lab.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science:
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- 2-LS4 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
3rd Grade
3rd Grade
Creepy Carrots
Put your math skills to the test after reading the Halloween book Creepy Carrots ! By Aaron Reynolds. We will dive into the topic of area and perimeter with different shaped fences to keep the carrots contained. Students will calculate the cost of materials and have the opportunity to build their fences.
Kansas Standards for Mathematics
● 3.MD.5 . Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement
● 3.MD.8 . Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
4th Grade
Bag of Bones
Bone up on your knowledge about the skeletal system. Find out how forensic pathologists use bones to determine age, gender and height, and conduct an experiment to learn about the effects of osteoporosis. Teachers are asked to supply plastic zipper-seal bags and cereal.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Health:
● Standard 1: The student will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as related to:
o (b) prevention and control of disease
o (d) personal health
Benchmark 1: The student will explain the relationship between positive health behaviors and wellness.
5th Grade
Bag of Bones
Bone up on your knowledge about the skeletal system. Find out how forensic pathologists use bones to determine age, gender and height, and conduct an experiment to learn about the effects of osteoporosis. Teachers are asked to supply plastic zipper-seal bags and cereal.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Health:
● Standard 1: The student will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as related to:
o (b) prevention and control of disease
o (d) personal health
Benchmark 1: The student will explain the relationship between positive health behaviors and wellness.
6th-8th Grades
Halloween STEM Challenge: Pumpkin Pipeline
Halloween will be ruined if the pumpkin patch withers away. Using the Engineering Design Process, students will work in teams to build a pipeline that carries water to the pumpkin patch.
Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for Science:
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- MS-ETS1-1. Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
- MS-ETS1-2. Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
- MS-ETS1-3. Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.
- MS-ETS1-4. Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.