MAX'S ADVENTURES EDUCATIONAL SERIES!
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What's included with every Adventure and InvestigationEvery Max's STEM Adventures episode (grades K–5) and Max's STEM Investigations* unit (grades 6–8) comes with a complete, classroom-ready package: Teacher guide — a four-page editorial guide built on our Five-Minute Promise: everything you need to teach the episode, ready in the time it takes your class to settle in Standards alignment — NGSS connections identified for each episode Lesson plan — phenomenon-driven and inquiry-based, following the same "notice, wonder, investigate" arc Max models on screen STEM challenge — a hands-on extension using everyday materials Assessment — quick checks for understanding that respect how young scientists actually think Vocabulary — introduced the way Max learns it: through investigation, never memorization Family connections — take-home prompts that turn kitchen tables and sidewalks into science labs *anticipated release-Spring 2027. Pilot Ready: Winter 2026. |
Max's STEM Adventures — Grades K–5
Every adventure starts with something weird.
Max's STEM Investigations (Grades 6-8)
Curiosity doesn't end in fifth grade. It gets tools.
In Max's STEM Adventures, one curious kid learns to ask "why?" In Max's STEM Investigations, three middle schoolers learn what to do with that question. Meet Milu, Zoomy, and Liamo — best friends who investigate real phenomena the way real scientists do: proposing bold ideas, demanding evidence, and connecting the dots into systems. Here's the secret built into every episode: none of them is always right. Milu's wildest idea sometimes cracks the case. Zoomy's data sometimes sinks a beautiful theory. Liamo's big picture sometimes reveals what both of them missed. Your students learn that science isn't a lone genius having a eureka moment — it's different kinds of thinkers working together, testing ideas with respect and evidence. Every investigation is phenomenon-driven, aligned to middle school NGSS standards, and comes with the same complete educator package as Adventures. Meet the Investigators 🌀 Milu — The Possibility Thinker "What if…? Could there be another explanation?" Milu sees ten explanations where everyone else sees one. She's the spark of every investigation — the one generating hypotheses, drawing analogies nobody expected, and filling her sketchbook with ideas that sound impossible right up until they're not. Her superpower is creative brainstorming; her growth edge is that she sometimes runs ahead of the evidence. That's not a flaw in the show — it's the lesson. Great science starts with wild ideas. It just doesn't end there. 🔍 Zoomy — The Evidence Thinker "How do we know? Let's test it." Zoomy never met a claim she didn't want to check. Camera around her neck, field notebook in hand, she's the team's ground truth — observing, measuring, counting, and asking the question that keeps every investigation honest: what does the evidence actually show? Her superpower is turning arguments into experiments; her growth edge is caution — sometimes the evidence is already pointing somewhere and Zoomy wants one more test. Students learn from her that skepticism isn't negativity. It's respect for the truth. 🌐 Liamo — The Systems Thinker "Let's zoom out. What happens if one part changes?" While Milu imagines and Zoomy measures, Liamo connects. He's the one who notices that the mystery in the creek is connected to the parking lot uphill, that every part belongs to a larger system, and that changing one piece moves all the others. His superpower is seeing cause and effect at full scale — ecology, engineering, feedback loops; his growth edge is that big-picture eyes sometimes skip the small details. His tablet's web of connections isn't decoration. It's how he sees the world. How an Investigation works Every episode runs on the trio's natural rhythm: Milu proposes possibilities → Zoomy evaluates the evidence → Liamo maps the connections. Then the cycle spins again — because in real science, the first idea, the first test, and the first explanation are almost never the last.
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MAX'S STEM ADVENTURES
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In this episode of Waiting for Butterfly | Max’s STEM Adventures...
What really happens inside a chrysalis? 🤔 Join Max on a curious journey as he observes, questions, and uncovers the science behind one of nature’s most incredible transformations. In this interactive STEM adventure, students don’t just watch—they think like scientists. Along the way, learners are prompted to pause, discuss, and make predictions before discovering the answers together. Key Vocabulary: Butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis, metamorphosis, life cycle, larva, pupa, insect, organism, transformation NGSS Alignment- 3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death. Disciplinary Core IdeasLS1.B Growth and Development of Organisms Science & Engineering Practices ✔ Developing and Using Models ✔ Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information Crosscutting Concepts ✔ Patterns ✔ Structure and Function E-Book: coming soon Teacher's Guide: coming soon STEM Activity: coming soon 
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