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Engineering Common Core RI.5.1 projects
Intro to STEM: Think Like a Scientist & Engineer!
A great way to introduce STEM into your classroom! Updated to include editable versions of all student handouts! How does a scientist explore the world? How can you think like an engineer? Students will explore these questions and more through a series of critical thinking STEM exercises. The packet includes 4 critical thinking challenges centered on STEM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). These activities expose students to the real world of science and engineering with chal
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Simple Machines STEM Project Compound NGSS 3-5-ETS1 MS-ETS1
Newly updated as a digital PDF for home or distance learning, this FUN and ENGAGING NGSS Simple and Compound Machines STEM Engineering Project includes worksheets and challenges elementary or even middle school students to design and build a solution to a problem at school, at home, or anywhere else and adheres to the NGSS strand 3-5-ETS1 Engineering using simple machines. Simply print and assign or attach to Google Classroom (or whatever platform you use!) Be sure to check out my Home and Dista
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Rube Goldberg Machines - 11 day Cross-Curricular Unit
Rube Goldberg was an engineer-turned-cartoonist who is best known for his comics with ridiculous inventions. This action-packed, engaging, and rigorous unit includes 11 days worth of lessons where students learn about Rube Goldberg, create a comic, design and build a machine, and then create a video summary of their learning. These lessons are great for gifted/talented students!This download includes: 11 detailed lessonsDifferentiated student worksheetsDesign Brief TemplateAn video alternative f
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
STEM & Bridges| The Narrows Bridge Failure
Explore a Real-World STEM Investigation with your students!Fix the Failure – The Tacoma Narrows Bridge*A fantastic STEM lesson for Grade 5-8* Combine reading, research, and engineering in a hands-on real-world investigation of an actual engineering failure. Provide a real-world investigation that explores the importance of perseverance and learning from failure. Your upper elementary and middle school students will:· Read and answer questions about an actual engineering event that was a failure
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: STEM & Real World Failures Bundle
The Ultimate Paper Airplane STEAM Project + Escape Room: 10 Day Challenge
Every year since I started teaching, I've done a paper airplane contest. When I first started around 12 years ago, it was a quick contest that lasted just an afternoon. Gradually, as my experience as an educator grew, this project began to grow into what it is today... A 10 day cross-curricular mega project! I always say that student engagement is the key to learning, and I can guarantee that your students will be engaged during these activities! They will be measuring, graphing, reading, analyz
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
...
STEM Design for Learning: Designing School Supplies Webquest Project
A Webquest for Real World Project-Based Learning
Students become school supply designers in this interactive webquest. The familiar desk objects open new worlds to critical thinking and collaboration as students make decisions about school supply form, function, and fun through project-based learning.
Students form cooperative groups as “school supply companies”. Prior engineering knowledge is activated through a series of questions before students launch into web-based research accessing a se
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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14 activity/unit MEGA SCIENCE Bundle! Gr 3-4
Science with a COMIC BOOK TWIST!Teach kids about ENGINEERING PROCESS and the SCIENTIFIC METHOD.This packet has over 100 hours of Science fun! Integrated with Math and Reading/Writing, these projects and activities are full of engaging lessons. Great for home learning, Science stations, whole group learning and more.Over 750 pages of resources are included!Skills/Topics include:EngineeringScientific MethodReading and researchReading and vocablularyWriting nonfictionWriting fictionMath: computat
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-LS2-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 4-PS3-3
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Project Based Learning | Biography | Philosophy | Elon Musk | Tesla
Students LOVE Tesla and Elon Musk, and this bundle of activities will have them excited to learn more about this fascinating entrepreneur! By purchasing this Project Based Learning Bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of the individual units.What better way to develop students' critical and creative thinking skills than with this high-interest Biography, Philosophy, and Design-a-Car Accessory Unit?After getting to know the man behind the Tesla, Elon Musk, students will have the opportunity t
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5th - 8th
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CCSS:
STEM Project - Research, Design, and Build a Catapult
This lesson involves researching, designing, testing, and improving catapult design. Students will test their catapults by firing projectiles at a target as they learn about catapults, projectiles, range, accuracy, and precision. The goal in this project is: I will understand what a catapult is and why precision and accuracy are important.This project offers ways to incorporate UDL pedagogy and increase access to students who may struggle with the concept. All tasks involved are chunked and pres
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-2
MEGA SCIENCE Bundle for grades 5-6
This packet has over 100 hours of Science fun! Integrated with Math and Reading/Writing, these projects and activities are full of engaging lessons. Great for home learning, Science stations, whole group learning and more.Over 600 pages of resources are included!Skills/Topics include:EngineeringScientific MethodReading and researchReading and vocablularyWriting nonfictionWriting fictionMath: computationMath: data recording and analyzingMath: word problemsMath: operations•3 STEM projects•2 STEA
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Grades:
5th - 6th
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-LS2-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 4-PS3-3
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STEM Design for Learning: Super Senses
A Webquest for Real World Project-Based Learning The Super Senses WebQuest is an engaging way for students to work in teams to learn how animals use their senses and what makes some animals have stronger senses than others. The webquest and design process supports critical thinking and collaboration as students form teams and make decisions about how strengthening the ability to use a sense could benefit humans. Each student becomes a design expert by following their own learning path to resear
Designing Temporary Shelters: A STEM Design Team Project
Designing shelters to provide safety to those in harm’s way.Temporary Shelters is a design team project that supports critical thinking and collaboration as student teams make decisions about how to solve the critical need for temporary shelters. Each team will focus on one need for temporary shelters by randomly selecting from the provided Challenge Cards. They will be guided on a design path to learn about the specific need for shelters, analyze current solutions, and decide how to improve upo
Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Addressing Global Food Crisis and World Hunger (5th Grade)
In this project, students will create a digital presentation or storybook addressing global food crises. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): 5-LS1-1 Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water. 5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Science and Engineering Practices: - Support an argument with evidence, data, or a model. - Develop a model to describe phenome
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5th
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STEAM and Non-Fiction Book Report
Need a book report that allows for creativity, building and focus on informational text? Here is the book report for you. I created this for my fifth grade class three years ago and each year we do this report. Here's how it works: 1) The kids choose an informational text and read it 2) The kids think of a structure that they could build that goes with the text- for example- a building, a bridge, a boat, a cottage, etc. 3) The kids fill out the google form and design their structure. 4) The kids
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Ancient Egypt STEAM Project
Above you will find the guidelines and rubric for my Ancient Egypt STEAM Project. There are two parts to this project: 1. A research essay. 2. An engineering/art replica.Students will do their research in the classroom and at home over a three week period. I have them all do their replicas at home. I have set deadlines throughout the three weeks for their rough draft #1 and #2, revising times with peers, editing, and finding credible sources to add to their essay and bibliography.Included is the
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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