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Price: $495.19

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FlinnSTEM Classic Modules include all materials needed to engage students in rich, inquiry-based, hands-on activities. Provides 32 hours of instruction. IMSA Fusion is a teacher professional development and student STEM enrichment program to maintain or increase student interest, involvement and literacy in science and mathematics. Empower your students with Flinn STEM curriculum modules powered by IMSA Fusion!

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Item# AP9572 AP9860 AP9575 AP9577 AP9578 AP9579 AP9580 AP9573
Topic Engineering: Design and Build Fighting Fire with STEM Materials Science: Living in a Material World Secret Communications: Sharing Concealed Messages Synthetic Scorecard: Building the Future of Biology Take Flight: Investigating the Aviation Industry What’s the Story, Data? You Be the Judge
Grade Level Grades 4–5 Grades 4–5 Grades 6–8 Grades 6–8 Grades 4–5 Grades 6–8 Grades 4–5 Grades 4–5
Price $495.19 $610.78 $672.41 $364.23 $625.50 $850.00 $476.30 $547.31
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IMSA Fusion Classic Module Kits include all materials needed to engage students in rich, inquiry-based, hands-on activities. Provides 32 hours of instruction. Includes materials for students, reproducible student content, detailed digitial teacher content and access to professional development videos about each activity (1-year access). 

IMSA Fusion is a teacher professional development and student STEM curriculum program to maintain or increase student interest, involvement and literacy in science and mathematics. The learning experiences focus on helping students “learn how to learn” by emphasizing logical, mathematical and experimental scientific thinking with relatable topics. These curriculum modules focus on students in upper elementary through middle school as research has suggested that these teachers need more opportunities to gain content knowledge and students in these grades lose interest in science and math. IMSA Fusion is versatile to fit your learning environment and can be used as an after-school program or embedded in daily instruction as an elective or co-curricular. Units can provide content knowledge and hands-on experiences related to makerspace projects as well. Contact Flinn for district level pricing.

IMSA Fusion has found great success in many schools! Here is what one teacher had to say about the program: 

“I have learned that students are just as good of teachers (sometimes better) than I am! Encouraging a more collaborative learning environment is a direct result of the IMSA program.” 

Here is what one student had to say about the program: 

“We actually do the science and don’t just read about what we are doing.” 

IMSA Fusion is recognized as a top program in the nation by Change the Equation: STEMWorks and as one of the top K–12 STEM Programs in America by the Bayer Corporation.

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Specifications

With the IMSA Fusion—Engineering: Design and Build STEM curriculum Classic Module Kit, student-led teams conceptualize, build, test and acquire knowledge while becoming familiar with the engineering design process. Using an open-ended inquiry approach, students are able to foster their creativity while learning to apply multiple skills and develop habits of innovators. 

Module includes the following units:
• Unit 1: Introductory Activity
• Unit 2: Build-A-Boat
• Unit 3: You’ve Got Mail
• Unit 4: Hot Rod Hamster
• Unit 5: Let it Roll
• Unit 6: Catapult Wars
• Unit 7: Fusion Five
• Unit 8: Something Borrowed
• Unit 9: Applications of Engineering Design
• Unit 10: Wheeling the Weight Around
• Unit 11: Topsy Turvy

For 20 students in grades 4–5.

Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Science & Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations and designing solutions
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluation, and communicating information

Disciplinary Core Ideas

4-PS3.A: Definitions of Energy
4-PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
5-PS2.B: Types of Interactions
3-5-ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems
3-5-ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions
3-5-ETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Cause and effect
Scale, proportion, and quantity
Systems and system models
Energy and matter
Structure and function
Stability and change

Performance Expectations

MS-PS2-2. Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object
MS-PS3-2. Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
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.
4-PS3-1. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
4-PS3-4. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
5-PS2-1. Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.
3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3-5-ETS1-3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.