• Inquiry-based learning:  allows students to seek knowledge, information, or truth through questioning.

• Cooperative learning: small groups will work together to accomplish a task or improve their understanding of a subject.

• Interdisciplinary Instruction: is a method, or set of methods, used to teach a unit across curricular disciplines.

• Career Exploration: a long, progressive process of choosing education, training, jobs that fit your interests and skills.

5^th graders experience multiple opportunities to conduct hands-on STEM investigations, explore careers in STEM, develop team-building and leadership skills, learn about business planning, being an entrepreneur, listen to guest speakers, develop advertisements through commercials, build remote control forms of transportation and much more!