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The BMRI High School S.T.E.A.M. Aviation Program is designed as a 4 year AOPA curriculum providing pathways to acquiring a UAS (Drone) License or a Pilot's License or both.

Each course is a turn-key set of high quality instructional and assessment resources written by an expert team comprised of veteran teachers, curriculum professionals, pilots and flight instructors. The curriculum is delivered in electronic and virtual formats. Every one of the lessons that make up each year-long course includes everything that a teacher needs to provide rigorous and exciting project-based learning experiences:

• 5E model lesson plans aligned to CCSS and NGSS
• Teacher presentations with embedded instructional safe video links
• Student activities and projects, project rubrics, and materials lists
• Extension activities for enrichment and strategies for inclusion

The lessons are built based on increments of 50-minute sessions.    Some lessons are designed for one 50-minute time session and others involving hands-on activities or student projects are longer.    Each lesson plan identifies how many sessions that lesson entails in the beginning of the lesson plan.   In total, one year’s worth of curriculum provides 140 sessions of content.   This will allow a teacher the flexibility to extend time as needed, participate in field trips, or allow time for school related activities. 

Evaluating student growth and performance is easy with provided formative and summative assessments within each lesson, unit quizzes and exams, and semester pre- and post-tests.

Included with the curriculum is an outstanding initial and ongoing professional development and teacher support program. Initial professional development is provided for teachers who will be teaching any of the courses. The initial training is mandatory and is offered in multiple formats that provide teachers with options to meet their own learning styles and to fit busy schedules. Ongoing professional development will be available to all teachers during the school year via webinars and other electronic formats.