Critical Thinking Online Breakouts · a STEM engineering challenge · a student word bank
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Rescue Run
Launch a search-and-rescue mission — reading a drone's distance–time graph, telling speed from velocity, and reasoning about heat and thermal equilibrium to solve four locks. ~12–18 minutes.
🧑🏫 Teacher note: the 10 concept breakouts introduce or review one key idea each (elements & compounds, solutions, motion & graphs, heat transfer, the solar system, plate tectonics, watersheds, energy pyramids, body systems, and classifying life). See Skills & TEKS for the standards alignment and the misconceptions the featured breakout confronts.