bus project curriculum

Intention: to Engage STUDENTS IN all grade levels through Career Connected Learning

Career Awareness: Converting the school buses to housing will require experts from multiple industry sectors: carpentry, plumbing, electrical and welding will all be introduced by industry professionals; exposing students to different career pathways in construction

Career Exploration: Through Project Based Learning, students will have an opportunity to work directly on the bus or remotely helping to construct something that will make the bus a home

Career Preparation: Students will practice industry-aligned skills through in-class offerings, after school programming, and out of school Construction Internship Programming

Career Training: Construction Internship Programming will directly prepare students for careers in the Construction trades

Below you will find links to curriculum for grades Kindergarten through High School. Click on the links to access the associated curriculum for your project.

Kindergarten

• Identifying Problems People Might Have

• Window Shades

First Grade

• Identifying Materials

• Make Door Knocker with Different Materials

Second Grade

• Identifying Materials to Serve a Purpose

• Creating and Designing a Toy

Third Grade

• Unbalanced Forces

• Storing Items on a Moving Bus

Fourth Grade

• Where Should We park?

• Oh No! Erosion!

Fifth Grade

• Why Reuse a Bus to Live in?

• Volume and Scale

Middle School

• 7th Grade, How it’s Made

High School

• Work-based Learning Rubric

• Employability Rubric

• Measurement

• Clean Up & Demolition

• Career Exploration