








“Violet the Pilot” – Engineering with Purpose and Passion
Launch curiosity with “Violet the Pilot” by Steve Breen. Students explore how machines—and people—are systems that must work in harmony to succeed.
Includes:
Read Strategies: Asking Questions and Making Inferences
Creative Thinking: Elaboration
Depth and Complexity comprehension questions
Writing: Describe a simple machine
Mathematical Thinking: Sum Grid Logic Puzzles
Cross-curricular: All About Analogies
Post Reading: Pulley System
Ideal for elementary learners interested in flight, invention, and perseverance.
Launch curiosity with “Violet the Pilot” by Steve Breen. Students explore how machines—and people—are systems that must work in harmony to succeed.
Includes:
Read Strategies: Asking Questions and Making Inferences
Creative Thinking: Elaboration
Depth and Complexity comprehension questions
Writing: Describe a simple machine
Mathematical Thinking: Sum Grid Logic Puzzles
Cross-curricular: All About Analogies
Post Reading: Pulley System
Ideal for elementary learners interested in flight, invention, and perseverance.
Launch curiosity with “Violet the Pilot” by Steve Breen. Students explore how machines—and people—are systems that must work in harmony to succeed.
Includes:
Read Strategies: Asking Questions and Making Inferences
Creative Thinking: Elaboration
Depth and Complexity comprehension questions
Writing: Describe a simple machine
Mathematical Thinking: Sum Grid Logic Puzzles
Cross-curricular: All About Analogies
Post Reading: Pulley System
Ideal for elementary learners interested in flight, invention, and perseverance.