Bessemer Academy
STEM
PLTW LAUNCH
Bessemer Academy offers PLTW Launch curriculum in Kindergarten through Fifth grade.
With PLTW Launch, students are immersed in hands-on activities, projects, and problems that build upon each other and relate to the real world. They experience integrated learning that blends computer science, engineering, biomedical science, and more. Throughout the modules, even the youngest learners apply their math and English Language Arts skills, learn science to standards, and adopt skills that are foundational across disciplines.
Module Examples:
Structure and Function: Human Body
Light and Sound
Properties of Matter
Science of Flight
Energy Exploration
Earth's Water and Interconnected Systems
Sunlight and Weather
Animal Adaptations
The Changing Earth
Variation of Traits
Human Impact and Natural Disasters
Patterns in the Universe
