Grades 1-5. Environmental Engineering. Life Sciences

Boston Museum of Science offers the "Engineering is Elementary" (EiE) curriculum. This curriculum is a dynamic and evolving program designed to introduce elementary school students to the field of engineering through engaging and hands-on activities, fostering their problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

In A Slick Solution: Cleaning an Oil Spill, students explore how engineering helps to clean up pollution that threatens an ecosystem. The unit begins with the storybook Tehya’s Pollution Solution, in which a girl named Tehya, a member of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe in Washington State, explores the field of Environmental Engineering in order to help clean up an oil spill in a local river. Over the course of the unit, students investigate methods to detect pollution and evaluate information about ecosystems. Like Tehya, students then follow the steps of the Engineering Design Process to imagine, plan, create, and improve their own oil spill cleanup process.

Reservation Includes: (1) Educator Guide, (30) Student Storybooks, and (1) Materials Kit for 24 learners.

Check Out the Curriculum: A Slick Solution: Cleaning an Oil Spill