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STEM Challenge Activities - FREE Resources, PD & Parent Letter
Want to get started with STEM challenge activities, but not sure how to make sure you're incorporating the rigor to make your principal happy?Or how to facilitate a STEM challenge?Or how to get free or cheap STEM materials?Or where to get STEM activities you & your students will love without breaking the bank?This freebie includes:✅ Links to FREE STEM Challenge activity teaching resources. ✅ Links to FREE STEM Challenge PD✅ Editable parent request-for-materials letter ✅ Links to paid STEM Ch
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STEM Challenge Cycle: Breaking Down Challenges into Components
How long should a STEM challenge take? Is there more to STEM challenges than just designing & building? How do I plan a STEM challenge; does it break down into smaller parts?
If you've found yourself asking these questions, this video is for you. Essentially, you’re wondering how to best approach the lesson/activity flow. Like so many things in life, there’s more than one way to get the job done well, but I’d like to share with you a tried and true approach that worked for me. I have named
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Resilience Lesson using Pixar's Boundin' Short
I know my students love watching videos! I use this worksheet to lead a discussion about "bouncing back" when things go wrong in life. Hope you enjoy!
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K - 5th
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How to make a catapult
A simple way to make a catapult for your STEM centers. Watch this short video and you'll be on your way to launching a fun hands on center.
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Halloween STEM Challenge
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PreK - 12th, Not Grade Specific
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Systems of Equations - Story Problem Video 1 - Tanya's Book Binge
FREE !!! PLEASE RATE!!!This Animated Algebra interactive video in EXE format is a fully-animated 6.5 minute story problem with 4 multiple choice questions and answers. The files can be downloaded onto a PC or Mac. Note: The preview video is in SWF format which may not play on newer computers. The EXE file should play on most of them as the Flash player is not required.The story problem "Tanya's Book Binge" is about a girl named Tanya who wants to buy a bunch of books to read during the upcom
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7th - 10th
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FREE STEM Challenge! Shh! don't show your students this! Let them figure it out!
If you were challenged to design and create a structure that holds the most pennies but were only given:
50 toothpicks, 2 pipe cleaners, 3 binder clips, 2 coffee filters, and 12 inches of masking tape
What would you design and build?? How many pennies could it hold? Well here is one
idea but please don't show this to your kids!!! Let them discover and learn with this project based learning STEM Challenge! They LOVE this stuff. They will have to work together and as they go through the STEM pr
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3rd - 6th
8:06
STEM Process: Weather Hazard STEM
This video explains the STEM process from start to finish. I cover the planning, budget, needed supplies, worksheets, testing and self-evaluation.
To explain the process, I use the Weather Hazard STEM challenge as an example. The STEM challenge discussed in this video is available here:
Weather Hazard STEM
STEM Bundle for the Entire Year
Thank you for stopping by Classroom Base Camp to learn more about STEM!
The video includes the creative commons song "Happiness" from www.bensound.com.
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Natural Disasters STEM
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How to Plan Project-Based Learning
This video discusses the 7 essential elements of PBL and how to plan each part. Download the attached PBL planning guide for a summary of the different elements, tips & tricks, and an area to plan out your project-based learning activity.
Check out the blog post: http://performingineducation.com/bring-excitement-math-block-project-based-learning
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3rd - 5th
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Math Songs: The Division Blues
This fabulous freebie from Wild Child Designs includes a blues song about long division. Its lyrics identify the steps to long division. It also includes a silly mp4 video file to help with singing the song.
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4th - 5th
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Teaching Social Media Awareness with a Tube of Toothpaste
Watch for an easy and effective way to help students understand that what is posted online and on social media cannot be taken back.
I'd love to know how it worked it your class so come back and let me know!
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6th - 12th
Mind Up Week 1 Breath Mindfulness
Introduction to Mindfulness.
Begin by learning to use our breath.
Learn to listen to a chime.
Learn to take deep belly breaths.
Note: Best practices to have a chime and a breathing ball (Hoberman Sphere).
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K - 5th
7:58
All Students Deserve to Fail: STEM Challenges and Growth Mindset
Most teachers seem to be on board with the concept, but teaching growth mindset can be tricky! A lot of it has to do with making the most of opportunities to respond to frustration, challenge, and failure with curiosity and calm rather than aversion and fear! STEM challenges are a natural fit! “Challenge” is right in the title, after all! This video explores how to reap the many benefits of a “failed” STEM challenge. (Hint: use scientific reasoning and analysis; then try, try again!)
You can d
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Also included in: Teaching Growth Mindset and Perseverance Within STEM Challenges
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Escape Rooms in the Classroom: 3 Easy Tips for Getting Started
Are you ready to try an escape room in your classroom, but don't know where to begin? Here are three simple tips to help you get started with designing your own break out adventure fore your students!
Escape room adventures are a perfect way to add fun and engagement to a typical school day, but they can also be used as a fun Friday activity, a review day, or even an activity to leave for a substitute once students have completed a couple with you!
Want to use escape rooms in your classroom, b
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Escape room - An Eggstraordinary Adventure (suitable for all grades & subject)
Embark on "An Eggstraordinary Adventure" with your students and transform learning into an enthralling quest with Escaply. The students will have to assist the Easter Bunny in locating the magical Golden Egg, a legendary treasure said to contain an endless amount of candy. But to find this egg, they must solve a series of challenges that test their courage, thinking, and their knowledge.The game is currently available for grades 1-3, 3-5 and 5-10 math/problem solving, but you can easily change t
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PUPPET PODCAST - Lilly the Lash and Friends (Episode 12 - Fear of Storms)
She's not only the main character of the storybooks...but now she's a puppet too! Lilly the Lash provides a valuable platform for children from around the globe to speak out and express their feelings about relevant issues. Each Lilly the Lash and Friends episode features a letter written by a fan. Lilly celebrates good deeds, speaks to their countless challenges, and encourages children to tell their stories, as she continues to promote good character building skills. Weekly episodes will fill
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PreK - 5th
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Mother Goose Needs Help! Managing Emotions One Rhyme at a Time! Sample
It's normal to feel big feelings, but harder to know to handle them! This delightful ebook uses nursery rhyme character predicaments to teach how to name a feeling, breathing techniques and change a mindset to over come those strong feelings!
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PreK - 2nd
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Elementary School Leadership Program
This is a brief description of the Elementary School Leadership Program I sell here on Teachers Pay Teachers. I am offering this program at an affordable rate for an educator. I believe that this program offers a ton of value for an entire school community, but I need you to help connect me with the decision-makers to learn more about the value of this type of program. I have been working with students to develop leadership for my entire career as an educator, when students are given the opportu
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2nd - 5th
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8:19
How To Use Stoplight Behavior Management Boards, Traffic Light Daily Visual
View my How to Assemble and Use the Stoplight Board for behavior management. Use a Stoplight Board to help students learn the appropriate behavior and classroom expectations. Students who require continually need reminders or prompts greatly benefit from this tool. If you have a student who is off task and under motivated in regards to his or her behavior, then I highly recommend the use of this visual. Premade incentives and consequences provide the student and teacher team with the ability to
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PreK - 2nd
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Coding and Robotics APP Suggestions How our Code Activity Ideas Kodable
Looking for basic coding APPS for your K-5 classroom? Check out my review on these two great apps - Kodable & Box Island. Click here to follow me & learn when new products are uploaded. New items are 50% off for the first 24 hours! :DI'd love to hear your feedback :) When you review, you earn TPT credits for free purchases!I'd Love to connect with YOU!Click here to follow me on InstagramAs always, please contact me with any questions!Thank you,Dena
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K - 3rd
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All About Geocaching!
A slideshow for a club or lesson, guiding students in the rules, etiquette, and how to's of geocaching!
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STEM Challenges - The Differentiating Magic of Criteria & Constraints Lists
People often ask me two questions about STEM Challenges:
1) Are they just for fun?
2) Why do you say your challenges are appropriate for grades 2 -8? How can that be?
This video answers both questions.
You can download a transcript of the video by clicking on "Supporting Document" below the video.
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STEM Challenge Mega Bundle
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Why You Need a Skill Set for Success!
Mr.O the hip hop teacher drops important jewels on you about the importance of having and developing a skill set. #careeradvice #careers #entrepreneur please Like share comment and subscribe YouTube channel @thehiphopteacher Mr o #school-ish
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Python Coding Distance Learning Print Function Free Video & Activities
** Online Resource for Distance Learning or Remote Learning with EMBEDDED VIDEO! **✨ Perfect for independent learners. ✨The Python print function outputs text in the Python shell. This is the first step in teaching kids how to think through coding. As kids write simple output statements they learn how to problem solve one line at a time.This resource is intended for students and teachers with little or no background in coding. Concepts and skills have been broken down into short chunks. Student
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Introduction to Divergent Thinking
Divergent thinking is the idea that there is more than one right answer to a problem or more than one use for an object. It's the foundation of all creative thinking. Divergent thinking is the most important concept to learn about in creativity. There are 4 very important guidelines to consider when divergent thinking. 1. Don't judge ideas. 2. Think of wild and crazy and impossible ideas. 3. Think of lots and lots of ideas. 4. Build on the ideas of others. I like to add play as well. We need
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