New

What's new on TechCheck

3–5 Sunday, September 20, 2026 · 8 min

Grade 3-5: Dino-poop feather, an AI that reads the Moon, a glove that talks, & Florida sues Netflix!

Space & ScienceAIEngineeringGame Development

About This Episode

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

📝

Teach with this episode

A reusable 3–5 worksheet and a copy-your-own Google Form. Same template every week, so students learn the routine once.

🗳️

Watched it? Now play it.

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.