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ARK Educate’s Middle School curriculum empowers students to think like innovators as they explore the technologies shaping our world. Designed to be modular and flexible, schools can select modules that best align with their goals across a range of difficulty levels.
Students engage in mediated discussions, hands-on experimentation, and independent research as they investigate disruptive technologies, their real-world impact, and the ethical questions they raise. Teachers receive training in Innovation Mindset, Problem-First Thinking, Mediated Learning, and lesson implementation, with ongoing coaching and support from ARK Educate.
Middle School Program
ARK Educate applies its problem-first thinking approach to all seven hands-on modules for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Lessons are situated in scientific methods and principles within a series of Innovation challenges.
Students investigate and analyze ideas through ongoing interactive experiences emphasizing expansive thinking, collaboration, curiosity, and mastery. Students begin in sixth grade by engaging in one innovation concept per module. Both responsibility and freedom increase in seventh and eighth grades as students engage in a higher level of experimentation and analysis, and are given additional time to build on their curiosities in relation to the content.
imagination
tenacity
collaboration
fortitude
Curriculum Overview
Download the Middle School Curriculum Overview to learn more about our programs
Explore | Engage | Innovate
Middle School Modules
Healthy by DesignLearn More
Gamification: Building Games With PurposeLearn More
From Mars to Molecules: How Robotics Expands Human PotentialLearn More
Climate Innovators: Building, Powering, and Fueling a Changing WorldLearn More
AI Foundations: How Machines Learn, Read, and ClassifyLearn More
In-Depth ExplorationsLearn More
What our teachers are saying
Steven, Pinellas County Schools“Working alongside the Ark Education Initiative has been life changing. I have learned so much about Innovation and how best to engage and inspire students. In addition I have learned what it is to truly have a growth mindset.”