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4th grade Common Core 1.MD.A.2 projects
Antarctica Shelter STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Take your students on a educational journey to Antarctica with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining weather conditions and the hazards of living in Antarctica. Students will learn about "insulation" and "freezing point" as they complete introductory activities using dry ice (optional) and simulating animal blubber! An icebreaker activity facilitates teamwork as students must "cross the ice" to travel across the classroom while only touching sheets of p
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Grades:
K - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
United States Roller Coaster STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
United States STEM Activity! Now includes digital journals.Take your students on an educational journey to Ancient Greece with this complete lesson! Learn more about STEM Explorers here.STEM Story: Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining early roller coasters as well as kinetic and potential energy.Science Connection: Demonstrate the effects of gravity and potential and kinetic energyEngineering Challenge: Design a roller coasterSTEM Careers: Structural engineer and neuroscienti
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Grades:
K - 5th
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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: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Ancient Egypt Chariot STEM Challenge - Engineering Design (Digital)
Ancient Egypt Chariot STEM Challenge - Engineering Design with Digital JournalsTake your students on an educational journey to ancient Egypt with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining some of the structures, wildlife, and inventions found in Egypt. Then conduct an icebreaker activity building a pyramid out of cups. Students will test their skills deciphering a code using ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics before moving on to the highly engaging design challen
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Ancient Greece Simple Machine Playground STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Ancient Greece STEM Activity! Now includes digital journals. Take your students on an educational journey to Ancient Greece with this complete lesson! Learn more about STEM Explorers here. STEM Story: Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the history of the Greek mathematician Archimedes and introducing simple machines. Science Connection: Students will learn about forces and the six simple machines as they complete demonstration activities and build a simple machine playgroun
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Chile Solar Car STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Explore the largest solar power plant in the world located in Chile as you take your students on an educational adventure with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the importance of clean energy and the use of solar power. Students will learn about solar cars as they use them to complete a mission! They must make their solar car navigate the mountains and ocean surrounding the solar power plant using the engineering design process. Students also learn
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Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Plants In Space STEM Challenge (Elementary)
Plants in Space Engineering Design STEM Activity: Students will learn about what plants need to survive and then build a mini greenhouse. Students are then tasked to use the engineering design process to design and build a device to support their greenhouse. Students will: Learn about an engineering problem they need to solve. Connect the problem to STEM careers and a real-world event. Gather materials and brainstorm ideas. Draw a design idea. Build and test their device. Students will keep maki
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Elementary Grades
England Pinhole Camera STEM Challenge (History + Engineering)
England STEM Challenge - Engineering Design with Digital JournalsTake your students on an educational journey to England with this STEM lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the innovation of the light bulb in England which led to the use of light bulbs in homes and theaters. Students will learn about light refraction and camera obscure as the foundation of how optics work like our eyes and a camera. Then students will complete an engineering design challenge to build
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
The Great Pumpkin Drop
Get ready for an engaging STEAM unit with “The Great Pumpkin Drop.” Not only will your students practice their engineering design and math skills, they will also create an opinion letter based on their Great Pumpkin Drop results. An amazing resource for teachers who want to encompass math and ELA skills with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity. Students will learn about the structure of a pumpkin and then use that information to work in teams to build the ultimate Great Pumpkin Drop container.
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Grades:
K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
...
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
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K - 5th
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Famous Aviators, Pilots, and Astronauts Guided Research and Project EDITABLE!
Are your students interested in pilots, astronauts, and aviators? Are you looking for a way to direct them through the research process but aren't sure where to begin? This guided research packet provides them with a detailed guide that will help them find appropriate resources and questions to jump start their learning. After that, it will take them on a step-by-step journey to creating a life sized version of their chosen aviator to display in the hallway. There are 4 major measurement standar
Grades:
1st - 4th
Australia Safety Capsule STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Australia Safety Capsule STEM Challenge - Engineering DesignTake your students on an educational adventure to Australia with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the invention of the baby safety capsule (car seat) in Australia. Students will learn about distributing and absorbing forces as they complete demonstration activities and build their own safety capsule! Updated to include editable digital journals in Google Slides to support distance learning
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K - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Black History Month Guided Research and Measurement Project - EDITABLE
Looking for a project that integrates technology, reading, research, writing, social studies, and math? You are in the right place with this interdisciplinary project that covers multiple standards!
This is a guided research packet featuring 32 influential African Americans that will take them on a journey from start to finish.
Our state library has a paid subscription to PebbleGo and Kids InfoBits , which are excellent informational text databases for younger or ESL learners. The men and wom
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1st - 4th
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Whole School Project Based Learning-Camping Theme
How We Used This for a Whole School “Camping Theme” PBL
We used these lessons to kick off a whole school PBL with a camping theme. Each grade level had a different activity and we pulled them all together to have a whole school camping day on our playground.
Kindergarten’s project was to make a camping card/board game and they made s’mores on our all school camping day.
1st Grade’s project was to make a boat and they did an experiment with their boats on our camping day.
2nd Grade’s proje
STEAM with Goldilocks!
Have you been looking for a STEAM project that really incorporates the math and science! Well, you have it right at your fingertips! This project is an engaging way to incorporate the engineering design process which actually has the kids use science, technology, engineering, and art, and math. Students will not want to stop. So, be sure to give yourself plenty of time to build those prototypes and test! You should allow twenty-five minutes a day. This project took my fourth-grade students ab
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K - 5th
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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
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1st - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Potato Project- St. Patrick's Day
Enjoy this Paddy Potato Project! Students bring (or you can provide your own) a potato of any shape and size for this fun hands-on learning lesson!
Provided:
Measurment Length Recording Sheet
Measurmetn Weight Recording Sheet
Eye Finder Recording Sheet
Lined Writing Prompt Sheet " What is your favorite kind of potato"
Potato Reminders to Send Home
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PreK - 5th
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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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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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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
Plant Journal
Students fill out journal as they watch their plant grow. Students practice measuring and recording data. Would fit in perfectly with a science plant life unit.
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Grades:
K - 4th
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
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
How to Access ST Math
Need help showing parents how to access the ST Math online platform at home? Here is a FREE resource to help teach them how! You can use this at Back to School Night or anytime throughout the school year. It is also a great tool to have acccesible for families on Google Classroom!❄️
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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