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NASA Space Centers Virtual Field Trip (Google Earth Exploration)
Take your students on a virtual field trip to three different NASA space centers across the United States. Using a combination of Google Earth™ 360-degree views, informational text, video, and visuals, your students will learn about NASA, research and contributions, space travel, and significant events.This virtual field trip covers::: NASA Headquarters:: Mary W. Jackson :: Field Centers :: Langley Research Center:: Apollo Lunar Landing:: Landing on the Moon:: Margaret Hamilton:: Johnson Space C
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: End of Year Virtual Field Trip Bundle (Google Earth Exploration)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day STEM Activity with Writing Extension
Martin Luther King Jr. (Integrated Math, Reading, and Writing Activities Included!)Students receive a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. giving facts about his life and instructing students to create a podium that he will use to deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. A fun and engaging MLK Day activity!Includes writing pages for students to write about their dreams. Math activities are included as well that cover geometry standards including 2D and 3D shapes, shape attributes (faces, edges,
Grades:
1st - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Winter STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle
Ancient History STEM Challenge Bundle
STEM and Ancient History: Greece, Rome, and EgyptColumns, Domes, and PyramidsA Bundle of STEM Engineering Challenges for Ancient History!Integrate STEM Engineering Challenges and Ancient History? Yes!Teachers are saying:"Great resource to engage students in STEM! My students were excited and took time to work on projects in small groups. Very engaging :)" "This was SO much fun! It was a great way for us to integrate science/social studies/ and literature. The kids were laughing and engaged the
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
St Patrick's Day STEAM Craft Activity (Lesson Plan & Printable)
Fun Paper Leprechaun Puppet for St Patrick's Day!Have some classroom fun with these articulated paper puppets for St Patrick's Day. These dancing leprechaun puppets are a great way to explore very basic mechanics (cause and effect) and are fun to decorate the classroom with or take home as a paper toy. Choose from the "color your own" version if you have more time or the "ready colored version" if short on time. You can even make a whole set and string them up as St Patrick's Day garland. In thi
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Games Around the World
Connect children to their peers around the world through versions of traditional games like tag, hopscotch, tic-tac-toe, and dominoes. This fun and engaging product includes 35 games from 23 different countries* for students to explore and compare all year long. Each game card includes clear instructions to prepare and play the game, its country of origin, and printables when necessary.Also included...a world map for locating the country of the game they will be playinga summary list for the ma
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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Global Awareness STEM Challenges | STEM Activities
Expose your students to the world around them through these STEM challenges These STEM activities will teach students about diverse people doing every day jobs such as artists and architects from around the world. These STEM activities are perfect preschool centers or Kindergarten centers. The art center resource is great way to add rigor to your art projects. Students will be challenged to build famous landmarks and homes around the world. We will also teach them about different cultures and
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PreK - 6th
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Perspective Taking Comic Strip Distance Learning Growing Bundle!!
This Growing Bundle has my best selling comic strip conversations interactive activities. They are designed for distance learning and engaging children. Interactive comic strips are great for perspective taking, inferencing, and story analysis. Guided questions included!It works similarly to a wordless picture book, but a wordless video! Watch together, then have the child retell. Type their words onto the comic strip and watch the magic happen.Share your screen with your student and view the cu
Grades:
1st - 12th
Ancient Greece and STEM : Engineering Columns
STEM Engineering Challenge for Ancient Greek History!Looking for a way to integrate STEM into your ancient cultures lesson?Engineering Greek columns will provide an enrichment experience for your students that combines geometry, architecture, and structural engineering. This STEM packet includes:Ancient Greek Columns Background InformationColumns VocabularyTeacher NotesEngineering Challenge Activity – Columns • Engineering Process PosterInquiry QuestionsStudent Job CardsRubricEngineering Design
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Ancient History STEM Challenge Bundle
Cinco de Mayo Activities - May Digital Escape Room - Mexico Celebration
Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on May 5, commemorating the anniversary of Mexico's victory in a battle with France. This fun digital escape room is a great way to learn more about Mexican culture. Students learn Spanish vocabulary, facts about Mexico, and more.While attending a Cinco de Mayo celebration, you've lost your piñata. You purchased the piñata to break open with your friends. To get your piñata returned, you have to solve puzzles and problems to break open the locks. Digit
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2nd - 5th
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Read Across America with Diverse Books
During Read Across America, this is a time to explore books from across America that shows our diversity as a country. In this product it includes 10 books with different activities. Books included are:-The Word Collector (explaining powerful words)-Those Shoes (wants vs. needs)-What If... (creating something from everyday objects)-The Most Magnificent Thing (inventing one thing or coming up with one goal)-Stella Brings The Family (labeling your own family)-All Are Welcomed (writing about when y
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Australian Aboriginal Flags STEM activities for preschool | Flags craft activity
This packet is perfect to be used in events acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and history like NAIDOC week, Reconciliation week, National Sorry Day, Australian Day. Featuring Australia National flag, Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait Islander flag, these STEM activities will help you easily integrate Aboriginal culture into Maths and Engineering concepts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------You may also be interested in these products
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Grades:
PreK - K
Project Based Learning - Native Americans | PBL | Build | Plans | Rubric
Exploring Native American soon? This project-based learning unit is filled with engaging activities and facts. The aim is to encourage students to explore the topic for an extended period.This unit is ideal for Native American Heritage month (November) or any time of the year. This PBL was “piloted” on a kindergarten class, but could be modified for pre-K level. It contains the following activities:KWL chart, Pocket chart picturesDrumbeats (syllables)
Grades:
K - 1st
Earth Day STEM Activity ( A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry )
This resource can be used as read aloud on Earth Day to help students better understand how Native American tribes felt when the settlers took over their land. It can also can be used to teach the causes of the Revolutionary War for upper grades. As the text is read, students will interact by creating their own polluted waterway, just as it happens in the story. The teacher also has an option to have students answer comprehension questions along the way. Afterward, students can complete a STEM e
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Australia Aboriginal Flags activities BUNDLE | representing First Australians
With more than 30 different activities for kids, this Australian Aboriginal Flag activity BUNDLE will help you to create activities promoting a sense of community partnership a public commitment toward Reconciliation Australia. This packet contains activities to learn about the meaning and history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags through hands-on experience. WHAT'S INSIDE:+ 1 picture of the Australian flag, Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait flag flying together.+ 3 sets of 6-pi
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Distance Learning | Unlock the Box: STEM Around the World
Unlock the Box: STEM Around the World is designed to teach global awareness through STEM build challenges, and inspire teamwork activities for your little engineers! Students will use their passport and travel journal as they travel around the world with Beetrice and use clues from her travel postcards to help unlock the mystery package. This product is a growing bundle meaning that I am in the process of adding lesson plans, images of the design challenges, and more travel destinations. Current
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Digital Indigenous Shelters Inquiry and STEM Project - FNMI Building Challenge
This Traditional Indigenous Shelters Inquiry and STEM project is designed for Canadian upper elementary social studies classes. Do you want your students to understand that Indigenous peoples of Canada traditionally lived in a huge variety of shelters, not just tipis? Then this Indigenous Peoples of Canada Shelters Inquiry and Building Challenge is for you! This fun, engaging, project is a fantastic way to hit Social Studies, Science and Language Arts outcomes. Students will start by completing
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Grades:
4th - 5th
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Arctic Architecture: Inuit Inuksuk STEM Challenge
Note: This challenge is part of my Seasonal STEM: Winter Bundle!The Challenge: Engage students in exploring and creating their own important Inuit landmarks! Students will learn about Inuksuit and Inunnguac and then tackle creating their own using found or manufactured materials. This project makes a great STEM connection for a winter, world cultures, or Arctic unit!What’s Included?Teacher Notes with supply list and recommended curriculum connections"What Are Inuksuit & Inunnguac?" explanat
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Grades:
K - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Seasonal STEM: Winter Holidays STEM Challenges
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The study of this book will meet the CCSS-RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words or actions).
It will also open the minds of your students to become real world problem solvers and get a glimpse into the lives of people of other cultures
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Famous Buildings of the World - Buildings Study
This is a fun printable that goes well with your building study. I have compiled a bunch of pictures of famous buildings from around the world that you can print out and share with your students during your study. You can turn them into a book or display them in your block area for your students to build using the building materials available in your class. If you have already purchased my Building Study Bundle, you will find it there as part of the bundle.How to use:Print, laminate, and cut out
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Creative Curriculum-Buildings Study Bundle
Appropriate Joking A Social Emotional Lesson for Upper Elementary
Why is this Important?
We are all born with 8 basic emotions. These include anger, sadness, fear, joy, interest, surprise, disgust, shame. The rest of it, however, we have to learn as we go!
This year, I have a handful of jokesters in my classroom. We’re talking sweet, amazingly wonderful children who have the best intentions. However, it came to my attention recently that they have NO idea when an appropriate time for a joke is, or even what kinds of jokes are appropriate.
Let’s teach our
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Design Your Own Home - Architecture Unit
Students learn the basic stages of designing a house, from planning to final design, in this two week unit. Critical thinking plays a large role in this activity. The unit has a strong emphasis on the preliminary planning stages of designing a home: spaces that are necessary vs. those that are amenities; defining public vs. private spaces; room locations and relationships; and working within a square footage budget. Just as an architect does, students will develop a preliminary floor plan, refin
Grades:
6th - 12th
Ancient Rome and STEM : Domes
STEM and Ancient History: Engineer like an Ancient RomanLooking for a way to integrate STEM into your ancient cultures lesson?Ancient Rome and STEM : Domes will provide an enrichment experience for your students that combines geometry, architecture, and structural engineering. The packet includes:Ancient Roman Domes Background Information Dome VocabularyTeacher NotesEngineering Challenge Activity – DomesEngineering Process PosterInquiry QuestionsStudent Job CardsRubricEngineering Design Proces
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Ancient History STEM Challenge Bundle
Project Based Learning: Editable Cookbook Template in Google Slides
Wow your students (and their parents) with this interactive and completely editable cookbook template. The benefit of using this template is it's collaborative nature. Google slides is an amazing program that allows collaboration on a single document - meaning the whole class gets to take part. This product includes many different page templates as well as instructional slides on how to make any custom edits! We hope you enjoy :) What kind of skills will this build in my classroom? Writing and s
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Spare Parts the Movie Activity Guide
Help your students analyze and understand the movie, Spare Parts, starring George Lopez. This is an entertaining and thought-provoking film that highlights issues such as immigration, friendship, teamwork and education.
This packet includes:
-Movie questions for students to answer during or after the film (+answer key)
-Two journal questions to get students to reflect on the film
-A Spanish vocabulary activity associated with technology and robotics
-Lyrics and questions from music from the mov
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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