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1st grade engineering resources for Easel Activities $5-10
Creativity Challenges and Activities Morning Work, Brain Breaks, STEM Warm Up
Unlock creativity in your classroom! Finish the Picture!The goal of creativity challenges is to help students think in different ways. The ability to generate unique thoughts and ideas is known as divergent thinking. When students are thinking outside the box it results in creative solutions. In a creativity challenge, students are presented with a problem that they have to solve using their creativity. Typically these challenges are short lasting anywhere from 3-10 minutes. By implementing thes
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1st - 5th
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2D 3D SHAPES Toothpick Cards | STEM Activities and Challenges
Are you looking for some engaging STEM ideas to incorporate into building geometry skills with 2D and 3D Shapes? I have you covered with these Build A Shape Mats! Print and laminate. Students build shapes with toothpicks and molding dough (you can use marshmallows or gumdrops instead), count the toothpicks, sides, vertices, and trace the words!What is inside:2D SHAPESPg. 3 Triangle MatPg. 4 Square MatPg. 5 Rhombus MatPg. 6 2D Rectangle MatPg. 7 Diamond MatPg. 8 Pentagon MatPg. 9 Hexagon MatPg.
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K - 2nd
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Engineering Design Process Worksheets and Rubrics (STEM/ STEAM Activity)
Use these 20 Pages of Worksheets and Rubrics to introduce the Engineering Design Process while doing a STEM/ STEAM activity, challenge or project. There is a color and are black & white version copy of the worksheet and rubric to go through each of the process. A great engaging activity for students or a group/ team to go through the design processes of their STEM/ STEAM activity. Use the rubrics to assess students’ performance once they finish their STEM or STEAM focused task.What’s Include
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1st - 12th, Staff
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Rube Goldberg Machines
The Rube Goldberg mini-unit is an imaginative and solid launching point for machines. It sparks creativity, and sets a mindset for inventing machines and solving problems as an engineer.For the Teacher:- Overview of mini-unit plan- Bulletin Board idea and printables- Recommended resources- Answer Key where applicableStudent Worksheets:- Informative texts on Rube Goldberg, Every Day Tasks, and Machines- Design a Rube Goldberg machine parts and planning pages- Creative Writing "My Imaginary Machin
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Simple Machines Unit (Bundle)
Planet Research Project + STEM Challenge| A Model of the Solar System for NASA
Anyone else just LOVE teaching about the Solar System?Each year when this unit rolls around I get so excited! I am sharing some of my go-to STEM projects and hope they make the Solar System, studying the planets, and outer space come alive in your classroom.This activity is very low prep and so simple, you need very little - pick up some PlayDoh and plates from the Dollar Store, print off these resources pages and you'll be ready to BLAST OFF into this hands on science project.In this 30 page re
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K - 8th, Staff
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Forces and Motion NGSS Science Unit
This Forces and Motion Science Unit that I have created aligns with Next Generation Science Standards and Mystery Science Kindergarten Unit 1: Force Olympics (this product can also be used without pairing it with Mystery Science).Save over 20% on the Kindergarten Science BundleWhat is included in Forces and Motion Science Unit:- 8 teacher lesson plans- vocabulary cards-Machines That Move student mini-book- Forces and Motion science journal (14 activity pages)- STEM activity- suggested books to r
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Kindergarten Science Bundle
Simple Machines Unit for Grades 1 to 3
Need something to liven up your scientific study of simple machines beyond pictures in books? Need hands-on exposures? Need examples of basic tools and how they are used in the world? This unit can supplement your existing curriculum or stand alone as an introductory or basic resource. The teaching suggestions and great visual materials would, also, make a great unit at year’s end or adaptation for distance learning. The PBL project would work as homework or a classroom based assignment, too. He
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-3
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Balance beam Weights & forces distance learning task card worksheets (Kgs)
Look at the balance beam (set of weights and scales) and determine what the beam will do. Which side is heaviest or will the beam balance evenly? There are two types of task cards in this product. The first 5 depict a set of scales with a fulcrum (pivot point) dead center of the beam and with a range of weights on either side. The beam will either fall to the left, fall to the right or remain evenly balanced. Just select which of those three options. The second set of 5 worksheets depicts the sa
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1st - 4th
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Simple machines on the Playground
There are a few pages to explain what simple machines are then some fun worksheets. When my family finished this we traveled to 6 different parks and charted what kind of simple machines we could find so I included that as well.
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PreK - 5th
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