
Hidden in Plain Sight™ is a multi-level STEM innovation curriculum designed to help students recognize everyday inventions and think like innovators.
What begins as observation becomes analysis.
What begins as curiosity becomes a 3D design.
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Hidden in Plain Sight™ is a developmentally aligned curriculum framework designed to help learners recognize everyday systems, identify problems, and design thoughtful solutions.
What begins as observation becomes analysis.
What begins as curiosity becomes innovation.
Our framework supports learners from early exploration through systems thinking and enterprise application.

Learners explore through observation, conversation, drawing, and simple building.
Focus: Curiosity, cause-and-effect, language development.

Students identify problems, analyze how solutions work, compare systems, and redesign improvements.
Focus: Explanation, engineering basics, reflection.

Students analyze systems, evaluate effectiveness, redesign innovations, and develop original solutions.
Focus: Systems thinking, iteration, enterprise application.
• 6 student volumes.
• 30 innovators per volume
• 30 hands-on 3D builds
• Reflection prompts
• Discussion starters
Encouraging learners to see everyday objects and systems as opportunities for analysis and redesign.
Each volume supports mixed-age implementation, allowing children to learn at their developmental level while exploring shared themes.
The Educator Companion & Curriculum Guide provides:
• Multi-level instructional guidance
• NAEYC-aligned developmental explanations
• NGSS and state-aligned learning logic
• Standards crosswalk references
• Implementation scripts
• Assessment framework
• Path A / Path B middle school innovation model
• Enterprise and makers market expansion
This guide supports teacher confidence — even without a STEM background.
Designed for educators, administrators, homeschool families, and learning leaders.
Hidden in Plain Sight™ aligns with:
• NAEYC Developmentally Appropriate Practice
• NGSS Science & Engineering Practices
• Comparable state standards frameworks
• Systems-thinking competencies
• Innovation and design processes
Our approach focuses on learning progression — not memorization.
Children will...
Learn to think like an innovator.
Practice problem-solving and creativity.
Build confidence through hands-on learning success.
See themselves reflected in the real stories of change-makers.
The same book can be revisited--as your child grows.
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