Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blowing in the Wind

During this Curious George STEM lesson, students will explore the concepts of air and wind. Student will engage in a hands-on activity after watching a video excerpt from Curious George.

Students can explore the engineering design process while watching video excerpts from Curious George and participating in hands on activities.

In a clip from Curious George, investigate with George how wind can move things. [2:05]

A hands on lessons where young scholars explore how materials and design affect the strength of a structure. After watching an excerpt Curious George, students build newspaper walls like George did and try out different solutions for...

A lesson where students will talk about how to sort different objects based on their characteristics. After viewing a clip from Curious George, students sort and label objects into categories.

A clip from Curious George showing students how a work of art can be made from a "junk" pile. [1:20]

Explore how different objects move down ramps in this Curious George lesson. Students will make predictions about how objects will roll down different heights of ramps.

Students will investigate different ways to wind can move things. They will blow, wave, and fan to move objects across a table.

An hands-on lesson where students create a wind powered boat with their knowledge of reusing, recycling of materials, and wind power.

In the STEM lesson plan, students will watch rocket demonstrations from the teacher Then students will create their own rockets.