Mississippi STEM standards: hands-on mechanical engineering activities

Mississippi Standards Mapping

Teachers can use Toyineer projects to address selected 2026 Mississippi Science and 2025 Mathematics standards through hands-on mechanical construction.

Alignment reviewed October 2026.


Standards and evidence.

These alignments use only the ordinary Toyineer construction process. They do not depend on a separate extension activity.

I. 2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science: Motion and Forces

Grade 3P.3.6A.1
Compare and contrast the effects of different strengths and directions of forces on the motion of an object.
Learners apply force directly to Toyineer mechanisms and can compare how a stronger, weaker or differently directed input changes the resulting movement.
Grade 5P.5.6A.3
Develop and use models to explain how the amount or type of force, including contact and non-contact forces, affects the motion of an object.
A completed Toyineer toy is a physical model of contact-force mechanics. Learners build and operate the model, then trace how applied force and contact between components create and constrain motion.
Grade 5P.5.6A.4
Plan and conduct scientific investigations to test the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the speed or direction of objects in motion.
Normal functional testing makes balanced and unbalanced forces visible. An educator can use the built mechanism to compare rest and motion and to observe how changes in applied force affect the direction or amount of movement.

II. 2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics: Geometry

KindergartenK.G.3
Identify shapes as two-dimensional (flat) or three-dimensional (solid).
Toyineer begins with flat printed parts and transforms them into three-dimensional components, giving educators a direct physical example of the relationship between 2-D and 3-D form.
KindergartenK.G.5
Model objects in the world by drawing two-dimensional shapes and building three-dimensional shapes.
Learners physically construct three-dimensional components and objects from two-dimensional printed representations during the ordinary Toyineer assembly process.
Grade 11.G.2
Compose two-dimensional or three-dimensional shapes to create a composite shape and compose new shapes from the composite shape.
Learners combine separate cut, folded and assembled components into larger structures and ultimately into one composite mechanical object.
Grade 44.G.1
Draw and identify points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, and perpendicular and parallel lines in two-dimensional figures.
Toyineer blueprint parts contain visible parallel and perpendicular edges, line segments and angles that can be identified directly during normal construction.

Official standards sources: 2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science and 2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics.


Hands-on evidence for standards-aligned learning.

Teachers can use Toyineer projects to address these standards. Students also gain skill in their use of tools and appreciate the importance of accuracy in engineering.

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