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2nd grade Common Core 4.MD.A.1 projects
STEM Oil Spill Challenge - Earth Day STEM Activity
Oil Spill STEM Activity - Great for Earth Day! Learn about the effects of an oil spill on the environment through a hands-on engineering challenge! The goal of this challenge is to clean up all of the oil from the feathers and from the water in the time provided. Students will work in teams to devise a plan to get the oil spill cleaned up in a specified time of work. Distance learning update: Activity has been updated to accommodate distance learning including instructions on creating a material
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ESS3-3
 ...
Also included in:Â Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Mothers Day Bath Bomb STEM Activity Science, Mixtures, Mother's Day Card
Mother's Day STEM and Writing: Bath Bomb Science Investigation with Mother's Day Card.Integrate STEM in your classroom and celebrate Mother's Day with Bath Bomb STEM Activity and Mother's Day Writing Activity. Special option to celebrate caregivers too! Students learn about how certain materials can create bath bombs when mixed together. This simple recipe can be a ton of fun! (And you can make some for yourself too!)A writing activity is included for students to write how thankful they are for
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in:Â Elementary STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA BUNDLE
Paper Chain Challenge | Measurement STEM Project
Year after year the Paper Chain Measurement Challenge is a second grade favorite!! They are always blown away they can take one piece of paper and make a chain that is so long it goes outside our classroom door! What they aren’t so aware of is the fact in creating this super long chain they are practicing critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and measuring skills. I have done this for the past three year. Each year I have saved the measurements of each paper chain so students not onl
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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February STEM Bundle | Valentine's Day Bundle
February STEM Challenges Bundle is a packet of experiments or challenges your students will love! Students plan, design, engineer, and collect data as they are having fun before Valentine's Day! Google slides are included. These activities can also be used for STEAM Activities, Maker Spaces, Tinkering Labs, or After School Clubs. Includes: Love Boat ChallengesValentine's Day Box Awards Valentine's Heart Candy Stacking STEM ChallengesValentine's Day Heart STEM ChallengeValentine's Day STEM Chall
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Math Project Choice Board Bundle for Distance Learning
Math Choice Board Ultimate Bundle – Elementary and Middle School Standards – Year Long– This choice board bundle is a simple, year-long differentiated tool for ALL CCSS standards. It is perfect for distance learning and includes… · Second Grade· Third Grade· Fourth Grade· Fifth Grade· Sixth Grade· Seven Grade· Eighth Grade This bundle includes 51 choice boards and each choice board menu project includes… - Sample Lesson Plans - Menu Choice Board - Project Proposal - Project Rubric - Presentati
Penguin Research Project
This document includes an introduction to penguins, penguin habitats, information with web links and research writing pages for the following penguins:
~adelie
~african
~chistrap
~emperor
~erect-crested
~fiordland
~galapagos
~gentoo
~humboldt
~king
~little (or blue)
~macaroni
~magellanic
~rockhopper
~royal
~snares
~yellow-eyed.
I used this as a research-based project. I have attached a matrix that you can use or you can use as a sample for students to gain information about their penguin.
If
Grades:
K - 5th
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Cookie Fun Way to Teach Money, Arithmetic, and Geometry
Cookies in math class? Absolutely! This fun and engaging hands-on activity will get your students excited about doing math.
Students will be designing their perfect cookie within the limits of a budget. They will be filling out order forms for cookies, candy and frosting then designing and drawing their final product. This fun activity seamlessly ties in important concepts in math, specifically, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with money, and attributes of geometric sha
January STEM Bundle | Winter STEM Bundle
January STEM Challenges Bundle is a packet of experiments or challenges your students will love! Students plan, design, engineer, and collect data as they are having fun during the winter months! These activities can also be used for STEAM Activities, Maker Spaces, Tinkering Labs, or After School Clubs. Includes: January Everyday is a HolidaySTEM Snowman Volume STEM January At Home Challenge Winter STEM Challenges STEM Blizzard STEM Winter Sled ChallengesAlso, follow me and be notified when new
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
30+ (No Prep) Minecraft Ideas You Can Do Tomorrow
Teachers are loving how much motivation is associated with Minecraft in their classrooms.
This guide makes it incredibly easy to harness that motivation with your students and will serve you for years to come!
49 pages of ideas, printables, fun Minecraft ideas, including what you need to know to get started.
Vocabulary, Critical Thinking, Creativity, Math, Language Arts, History, Humanities, Science and more! It's all here.
All ideas are between 15 and 45 minutes, most require 30 minutes.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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STEAM Fairy Tales with the 3 Pigs
Looking for a fun interactive way to teach erosion! This product is designed to use with grades K-4 depending on where your students are academically. It gives you a funny little extra to the story of the 3 Little Pigs... it tells you about the day after the big bad wolf tried to blow the house down! It includes math that you can use to help students see the real application of math in the making of products we use every day. It is paired with weather that is taught in 3rd grade. You can add too
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Math Project Choice Board Bundle for Distance Learning
Enrichment Math Choice Board Ultimate Bundle – Elementary CCSS Standards – Year Long– This choice board bundle is a simple, year-long differentiated tool for ALL Standards. It is perfect for distance learning and includes… · Second Grade· Third Grade· Fourth Grade· Fifth Grade This bundle includes 27 choice boards and each choice board menu project includes… - Sample Lesson Plans - Menu Choice Board - Project Proposal - Project Rubric - Presentation Rubric Beginning of the Year Math Review Cho
CHRISTMAS TOWN Integrated Unit and Design Challenge!
Deck the halls! Jingle all the bells! It’s Christmas time!What a crazy busy, but always fun holiday. While all the world is waiting on Santa, we as teachers, do our best to keep the learning going during December. This is the perfect unit to engage students and put learning into action! My motto is always, “When students Live It, they Learn It, and they will Love It! So, let’s challenge students to become city planners and design a special place, Christmas Town! All the while, they will be learn
Grades:
1st - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
 ...
Design Like an Animal
In this animal-inspired, high-interest resource, students research a vertebrate animal, its home or shelter, and biome. Based on the research, students design and build a human structure (small scale) using common classroom materials and donated recyclable materials. Design Like an Animal is written for high-ability or independently motivated learners. However, teachers can differentiate this project for students of all abilities. Includes access to assessment rubrics and link to free website f
CLOCK FLOWER
This makes a beautiful display board of students work as well as a purposeful tool for any grade 2-4 classroom of clocks made with a flower design. This is a beautiful display for Springtime. This is an activity that is guaranteed to have your students learning how to not only tell time, but how to find equivalent fractions and read and model angles. You can even stretch this activity to work in grade 5 by having students make ratios and by describing proportions. This is also differentiated
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Science STEAM: Static Charge
Science Challenge:Â Static ChargeStudents will learn about static charge by exploring how a balloon interacts with certain materials. Learn more about what causes static electricity by experimenting and collecting data! This STEAM challenge will get your students charged up about science! About Our Product:Our science lesson follows a slightly modified version of the scientific method. As a result, these lessons should feel the most familiar of any of our lesson types. The only real difference to
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-PS2-3
, 4-PS3-3
, 2-PS1-1
, 4-PS3-2
Year Long Student Height Book- Measurement
This is a year long project that I used with first, second, and third graders in my Montessori classroom. The first day students are measured on a height chart that I have on the wall. They decorate their cover page and color in their height in inches on the bar graph. I designate one day as "Measuring Day" and the kids look forward to that day. There is a page for each month after September's initial measuring. This resource helps students look at measurement in a fun and interactive way. Howev
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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"Measure Me!" Math Project-Second Version-Includes Non-Standard Units
Help students further their understanding of measurement with this extension activity. Students will measure different parts of their bodies using non-standard units, inches, and centimeters. Students will then be able to present this data in a creative way. This resource includes a parent letter, idea resource, planning sheet, and a rubric. Happy Measuring!
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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Spider STEM
Engage your students this fall with a fun and exciting spider STEM project. Students will begin with a KWL, then develop background knowledge by scanning QR codes leading them to educational videos where they can write interesting facts that they learned. You will then go over important vocabulary terms for this lesson. They will draft their blueprint of their design, list their materials, design, make a prediction as to what wIll their spider structure will do, then measure (using whatever meas
Categorize Measurements
Students create a poster to categorize the given measurements into what they are designed to measure. Then then determine if it is a customary measure or metric measure. Great interactive tool to help students focus on the different types of measures.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Classroom Books - Measuring in and cm, line plot, number line, bar graphs
Students will measure a book in inches and centimeters, comparing the two types of units. They will compare with a partner and write number statements to associate length with addition and subtraction. As a whole class, they will create a line plot on a number line, then use that to create bar and picture graphs.
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â 2nd Grade Math Bundle
My Gourd
Measure and weigh gourdCompare and contrast 2 gourdsMake predictions and do the experimentsWrite the attributes of your gourd
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
Valentines Math Poem
Have some fun with Valentines Math Poems. Your students will write rhyming words with math measurement vocabulary. Then create their own silly math poem. This product includes 3 poems, prewriting page, 2 writing papers (one blank and one lined)
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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