Welcome to TechCheck for Grades 3-5! Keep your students plugged into the fast-paced real world with our weekly tech news series. As students become more independent online, we explore what is happening right now in the tech industry in a highly engaging, age-appropriate format that bridges the gap between classroom theory and real life.
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8 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: students in a Wisconsin district got a fake 'job offer' email (word of the day: P…
8 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Minecraft revealed The Sift, its first new dimension in more than 14 years (word …
📺 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: the Astro Pi challenge lets kids write pixel-art code that runs for 30 seconds on…
8 min 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: the Astro Pi challenge lets kids write pixel-art code that runs for 30 seconds on…
8 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: a coprolite (word of the day: fossilized poop) found in Montana held the best din…
📺 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Hubble spotted a ten-sided atmospheric wave circling Saturn's south pole, a regio…
8 min 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Hubble spotted a ten-sided atmospheric wave circling Saturn's south pole, a regio…
📺 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Europe's Ariane 6 launched a powerful new storm-watching satellite; NASA is set t…
📺 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Europe's Ariane 6 launched a powerful new storm-watching satellite; NASA is set t…
5 min 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: Europe's Ariane 6 launched a powerful new storm-watching satellite; NASA is set t…
6 min 📺 🎧 TechCheck — “Tech Explorers” | Grades 3–5 The TechCheck Download • a tech current-events podcast for the classroom Cover…
5 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: an AI tool turns a written prompt into a playable game, students build real websi…
4 min 📺 🎧 This week on TechCheck for grades 3–5: 15,000 young creators shared projects worldwide, the free ‘open-source’ Godot gam…
📺 Grade 3-5: TechCheck for June 22 – July 5, 2026 TechCheck is Tech For Everyone's weekly tech-news show for K-12 classro…
4 min 📺 🎧 Watch full episode on https://TechCheck.fm #TFE #TechCheck #TechNews #EdTech…
4 min 📺 🎧 Should kids use AI chatbots to help with homework, and what exactly is a "digital diet"? In this action-packed episode, …
2 min 📺 🎧 Dive into the latest tech news for kids! 🚀 This week, we explore how to spot fake AI images, build your own apps using …
2 min 📺 🎧 Can an 11-year-old named Max really code a completely functional video game in just four hours to set a Guinness World R…
Perfect for easy integration into any class! TechCheck acts as a standalone, plug-and-play tool. Use it to spark classroom discussions, assign it as highly relevant homework, or use it as a launchpad for TFE Academy extensions. (Note: TechCheck content is entirely fresh and separate from the current events tabs in TFE Textbooks).
