SPIRAL

SPIRAL is the Spring Branch Program for Improving Reasoning and Accelerating Learning. SPIRAL is the answer for stretching, shaping, and challenging diverse accelerated learners from our local community with a focus on STEM education. Approximately 1,200 3rd – 5th grade students from 23 schools benefit from this incredible program by spending one day per week taking a deep dive into advanced subjects and engaging in high level problem solving and creative thinking. 

  • Our Energetic Earth

    Deep dive into history, chemistry, geology, and economic impact of petroleum, and renewable resources.

  • Code, Create, Collaborate- Program On!

    Use coding to take an idea and program it through Scratch, C programming, and Python.

  • Exciting Explorations in Engineering

    Discover and apply physics principles through the study of engineering and space. 

  • Chemistry: The Atoms Family

    Learn about the atom, chemical reactions, and compounds through hands-on activities.

  • Mysteries in Medical Science

    Explore mysteries in medical science and go on adventures through the human body, forensics and DNA. 

  • From Rocks to Robotics

    Explore how technology has changed through historical eras like the Renaissance and the World Wars.here

  • A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

    Learn about how consumers, producers, supply and demand.  Create a micro-economy.  Analyze the stock market and different economic system

  • Adventures in Wild Weather

    Focus on the science of meteorology and investigate the phenomenon of our Earth’s weather.

  • Ancient Civilizations

    Investigate the civilizations’ geography, inventions, languages and number systems.