A Gift for Making Science Fun: teacher key

Mark Rober, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. Mark Rober is an engineer whose videos have drawn praise from MIT and BYU. Read about his speeches, his companies and the tree-planting project he helped start.

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Questions and answers

1. What did Rober do with a drone at MIT in 2023?
   • Had it fly his graduation cap up (answer)
   • Raced it
   • Sold it
2. How many trees had the Team Trees website said the project reached, as of November 2026?
   • 25 million (answer)
   • 20 thousand
   • 2 million
3. Who did Rober sell his Halloween costume company to in 2013?
   • Apple
   • Morphsuits (answer)
   • NASA
4. What did a BYU professor say about Rober?
   • He builds only for fun
   • He is leading more people into developing engineering skills (answer)
   • He has left engineering
5. How did Rober turn sand into liquid?
   • With a fluidized bed (answer)
   • By freezing it
   • By painting it
6. What does the MIT chair's praise suggest about Rober's videos?
   • They explain hard ideas in a fun, clear way (answer)
   • They are hard to follow
   • They are about nothing

Words

• microbes: small life forms
• Curiosity: a Mars rover
• kits: things to build