Middle School Curriculum

Unit: Getting Started

Introduces several basic MESA concepts including the purpose of the program and some basic engineering concepts.

Unit: Gliders

Explore 4 different lessons to introduce the MESA glider project, including basic concepts of flight.

Spring 2020 Code Activities

This folder includes 8 different self-guided coding activities using scratch, CoderZ, and TinkerCad

Sponge Activities

Includes 12 short activities that can be done with common items, either self-guided at home or during a MESA period.

UniT: Mousetrap Cars

Get students building and thinking like engineers with these fun mousetrap car lessons.

MESa Advisor Activity Library

This folder includes 9 activities for created by MESA advisors for students at different levels to work on together. 

Unit: Bridges

Explore several lessons that begin to introduce concepts of bridge building and the strength of shapes.

Unit: Energy Coallition

Explore 7 different hands-on lesson plans for middle schoolers related to the environment and sustainable energy.