youtube-nocookie.com and open.spotify.com, or use the options below.This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: a coprolite (word of the day: fossilized poop) found in Montana held the best dinosaur-age feather ever seen, a clue to why some birds survived the asteroid; NASA and IBM released a free, open-source AI trained on two million Moon images that counts craters and points to hidden ice astronauts could turn into water and fuel; Richland, Washington middle schooler Suhavi Santhosh built a prototype glove that turns sign-language signs into sounds and made the national Top 300; Minecraft's Wilderness Bound update added a new autumn biome; and Florida sued Netflix over its Kids Profiles and autoplay — we explain why a lawsuit is a claim, not a verdict. Vocabulary-rich and discussion-ready. IN THIS EPISODE
A reusable 3–5 worksheet and a copy-your-own Google Form. Same template every week, so students learn the routine once.
5 quick polls, a story-of-the-week vote, and a 4-question quiz. Answers are anonymous and count toward your class on the grade-band leaderboard. This one has closed — results and answers are up.
Tech Adventurers
Apple and Spotify carry the full show; use the feed URL for a Grades 3–5-only subscription.
8 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: university students in New Zealand built a robot that solved a 4x4 cube in 9.806 …
📺 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Perseverance passed 28.1 miles on Mars, with its AutoNav software doing more than…