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Kindergarten Valentine's Day social studies laboratories for GATE
Valentine's Day STEM Activities / Valentine STEM Challenges BUNDLE (February)
Check out my Video Tour and Demo of all components on YouTube below!LOW PREP VALENTINE'S DAY STEM CHALLENGES VIDEOThis Valentine's Day themed STEM/STEAM package is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in February! Three STEM challenges and one Bonus Brainbuilder are provided and can be completed as stations or in isolation.Includes the following LOW PREP STEM Challenges:House of CardsCandy BoxAir MailBonus Brainbuilder: Candy DispenserIncludes the following components for EACH CHALLENGE:D
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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
...
Heart And Exercise Activities | Grade K 1 | Valentine's Day Science And STEM
Discover the role of the heart with a fun and easy prep experiment, further exploration, and an exercise tracker for February or any time of year. This project-based unit encourages students to move around and provides an excellent introduction to the scientific method for young learners. A complete teacher guide is provided. *Newly updated on January 29th, 2024!!!! Now includes 3 activities.*Included in the Hands-On Investigation:NGSS Alignment K and First GradeK-2nd Grade Science and Engineer
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
Valentine's Day STEM Bins® Teambuilders - Valentine's Day Party STEM Activities
★ GRAB MY NEW STEM BINS TEAMBUILDERS GROWING BUNDLE!★ Valentine's STEM Bins® Teambuilders are low prep STEM Activities that are designed to foster student collaboration and build your classroom community in February. They are also perfect for Valentine's Day party stations!The following STEM Bins® Teambuilders are designed to accompany my STEM Bins®, found at the following link:★STEM BINS6 Valentine's Day themed STEM Activities are provided for you to set up in stations or complete as a weekly c
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PreK - 5th
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House of Cards STEM (Valentine's Day STEM Activity) - Card House / Card Tower
***SAVE BIG WITH THE VALENTINE'S DAY STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Valentine's Day themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in February! Includes the following components for HOUSE OF CARDS STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary ChartPhoto of Possible ProductDigital Anchor ChartStudent InstructionsQR Code Rese
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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
...
Candy Heart Science Activity
This science activity is perfect for Valentines Day. It is quick, easy and your students will absolutely love it! All you need candy hearts, 3 cups (soda, vinegar, and water). The scientific question of this science experiment is simple: "What will happen to candy hearts when they are soaked in each solution?"
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PreK - 1st
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Air Mail STEM Challenge (Valentine's Day STEM Activity) - Paper Airplane STEM
***SAVE BIG WITH THE VALENTINE'S DAY STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Valentine's Day themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in February! Includes the following components for AIR MAIL / PAPER AIRPLANE STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary ChartPhoto of Possible ProductDigital Anchor ChartStudent InstructionsQ
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Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Valentine's Day Candy Science Experiment
Everyone loves science and everyone loves candy! This experiment combines both! Students will do experiments to see if candy dissolves in water or different liquids.
Check out this 30 second video to see this experiment in action!
There are three versions:
Version 1: Students will test if candy hearts and chocolate candies dissolve in cold or hot water.
Version 2: Students will test to see if there is a difference in how candy hearts dissolve in hot water, cold water, soda, and juice.
Versi
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Also included in: Valentine's Day STEM & Science with Candy Hearts
Life Long Ago and Today with Depth & Complexity
Life Long Ago vs Life Today (This unit has been updated 11/13/2018)Enjoy this social studies standards based unit. This will be a great companion for your books on life long ago. I embed Depth and Complexity prompts/icons and Depth of Knowledge in all my products. The included standards are based on the California State Standards but I am sure they are similar to other state standards. This is NOT limited to California teachers but a great social studies primary resource.This unit includes
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K - 2nd
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50 Social Studies Labs - Geography History Cultural Studies Economics Government
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!FROM THE CREATOR OF 50 STEM LABS & 50 MORE STEM LABS comes this collection of 50 Social Studies Activities for kids. Recommended for grades K to 6 and up! Each one has a snappy title, a brief set of instructions, recommended materials list, and space for notes. These are very adjustable for your classroom, home, or homeschool needs. Do projects for concepts like: Geography, Cultural Studies, Economics, History, G
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K - 8th
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Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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Grades:
K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Candy Box STEM Challenge (Valentine's Day STEM Activity) - Candy Container STEM
***SAVE BIG WITH THE VALENTINE'S DAY STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Valentine's Day themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in February! Includes the following components for CANDY BOX / CANDY CONTAINER STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary ChartPhoto of Possible ProductDigital Anchor ChartStudent Instruction
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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
...
Timeline Activity
Included are the following:
-All About Me Timeline with writing & photo space
-All About Me Timeline with photo space
-Seasons Timeline with writing & photo space
-Seasons Timeline with photo space
Great activity aligned to Common Core standards and NYC Scope and Sequence for S.S. Please leave feedback.
Grades:
K - 5th
Create a Culture Student Project | Gifted and Talented
Get your students thinking creatively! This project can be tackled in small teams or individually. Your students will use their imagination and creativity to invent their very own culture. The packet included will walk them through illustrating and writing about the following aspects of their invented culture.
- climate and geography
- language
- education
- architecture
- religion and beliefs
- economy
- clothing
- artifact list
Writing frames and a rubric are included.
This project is perfec
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PreK - 8th
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Creative Wheel Enrichment Activity
:: How to Use ::Creative Wheels can be used in ANY subject! You can have students complete a book character study, biography, book study, Social Studies topic, Science topic… the possibilities are endless!RESOURCE INCLUDES:+ Creative Wheel PDF+ Creative Wheel Google Slide+ Creative Wheel Digital or Printout options+ Editable Rubric + Sample pictures from my class projects and a list of ideas on how to use!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle
Candy Heart Science {A Valentine's Day Science Experiment}
This science lab is quick, easy and perfect for the Valentine's Day season!
You need candy hearts, 4 cups, baking soda, vinegar, salt and water. The question is simple: What will happen to candy hearts when they are soaked in each solution: water; salt water; baking soda and water and vinegar?
This product includes a two sided student booklet with a place to make a hypothesis, document and summarize results. PLUS my candy heart taste test as a bonus!
A great way to keep students learning
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Also included in: Candy Science: A Growing Bundle of Science Experiments
Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Labor Day Emergent Reader
This little reader is the perfect way to explain what Labor Day is to elementary students. The book explains when Labor Day was celebrated, when it became an act by Congress and why is was created.
This would be a good resource to add to your Labor Day social studies or government unit on the holiday.
US History
Labor Day
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Grades:
K - 5th
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STEM: Let's Build A..Castle
Need a quick STEM pack that is theme based and can help you tie in NGSS engineering standards, provide hands on activities and connect to your Building Structures, Balance and Motion Unit or even to tie in Fairy Tales with an engineering design challenge? This new series can do that for you with Let's Build a...Castle!
This pack includes:
-3 STEM connections
-engineering design poster
-lesson plan
-vocabulary cards
-packet sheets
-writing connections
-lord and lady patterns
-carriage background
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Grades:
K - 2nd
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Also included in: Let's Build STEM Bundle
Gifted or Goof Off
Part of Nancy Polette's Fact or Fiction Series
Texas Legacy Award Winner 2005
Use one of the collages in the Gallery of Celebrities with your students as a motivator to guess which famous people you’ll be reading about. Get a glimpse of the early life of well-known people in different professions. What do the experiences of these people tell us about persistence, perseverance, resolve, determination, achievement, accomplishment, victory and success? Enjoy the humor of Steele’s caricatures – writ
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K - 12th
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GOODS AND SERVICES STREETS - 3 Activities - English & Spanish
Goods and Services - Bienes y Servicios - English and Spanish!! My students have so much fun doing these activities. - The students brainstorm what makes our town special, unique and a great place to live. 1 - Large pictures of services and goods buildings. Print them in color and put them in a bag for the students to choose one and decide if that place provides a service or goods, and glue it on "The Class Streets" 2 - After that, use the other set of buildings for a pair activity. One of th
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: GOODS AND SERVICES BUNDLE - ENGLISH AND SPANISH
Valentine's Day STEM Building (Sweet Tower Challenge)
The perfect, fun Valentine's Day STEM activity! Students will work together to build a sweet tower using candy and toothpicks!Can be perfect for any age group! I used the candy jelly hearts from the Dollar Tree!This resource includes:-Directions-An informational text about love-A planning page-Early finisher activities
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PreK - 6th
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Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
Logic Puzzles Dinosaurs Early Elementary
Build essential critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills with this dinosaur themed logic pack, which includes:
6 Directional Mapping Puzzles
Following controlled vocabulary prompts, students move up, down, left, and right through a 3x3 or 4x4 grid to discover where they’ll land on the grid.
5 Visual Rotation Puzzles
Focusing on mental flexibility and being able to mentally rotate objects, students are challenged to discover which one of three dinosaur pictures is like the prompt.
8 Ve
Grades:
K - 3rd
Ancient Egyptian Mummy Project
Learn about mummies AND learn to make one yourself. Yes, we are going to mummify a CHICKEN! All information, instructions, and forms for documenting the project are included. This is a project that would be fun for EVERY age!
Grades:
K - 12th
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