Each mission includes interactive online lessons, ready-to-use lesson plans and activities for middle and high school students. Learning Blade can be used by any teacher, anywhere. Validated and proven to increase STEM/CS/CTE career interest.
Learning Blade Program
Exposing More Students to STEM, Computer Science (CS), and Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Learning Blade integrates STEM, CS, and CTE critical thinking skills to help students become college and career ready. Learning Blade starts by provides 12 “missions” that contextualize learning and engages all students, including underrepresented and special populations, while reinforcing academic standards. Each of the lessons and resources align with New York State Standards.
With over 100 careers and 400 lessons in the specific contexts of science, math, English and social studies included, Learning Blade supports and supplements classroom instruction and is a part of your NYGEAR UP Program.
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Develop modern manufacturing techniques to design and build a new concept car.
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Help rescue and rehabilitate an injured dolphin, including creating an artificial prosthetic tail.
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Evaluate alternative or upgraded energy sources for a city that currently has an old coal-fired power plant
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Explore developing technology and techniques used in robotic design to explore emergency rescue missions.
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Use data and the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GIS) and social media data analysis to predict flue outbreaks. *
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Investigate methods to increase production of local food sources for a community.