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Middle school engineering resources for Montessori under $5
Types of Bridges - Information, Photographs & Control Chart
Types of Bridges - Identify, sort, and classify 6 types of bridges. Check the classification using the control chart.This set includes the following types of bridges: beam, truss, suspension, arch, cable-stayed, and cantilever. Includes:6 information cards18 photo cards (3 per bridge type)1 control chartPhotos cards are approx. 5"x4" and print 2 per page.
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3rd - 6th
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Ball Drop Challenge
Introducing our dynamic, NGSS Supporting, lesson plan: "Building Blocks Engineering Challenge - Ball Drop!" Engage your students in an immersive exploration of engineering principles through hands-on experimentation with building blocks.In this captivating lesson, students will delve into the heart of the engineering design process by tackling a challenge: safeguarding a delicate marble from the impact of a drop. Armed with their ingenuity and problem-solving skills, students will brainstorm, pr
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K - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
End of School Year S.T.E.M. Challenges / Summer STEM
10 summer-themed S.T.E.M. challenges for the end of the school year. Includes reflection questions that can be discussed or written at the end of each challenge. Available in 2 sizes so they can be either projected on the board or printed off and used as task cards.Each challenge can be completed using common items found at school and/or home.Easily adaptable to suit a wide range of ages and skill-sets.Fun and engaging to keep students learning right up until the last day of school!
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2nd - 10th
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Low Prep - Easy STEM End-of-Year Activity - Engineering & Building - Marshmallow
The Marshmallow STEM Tallest Tower Challenge is a fun and engaging activity that combines principles of engineering, problem-solving, and creativity. In this challenge, participants are given a set of materials consisting of 20 pieces of dry spaghetti and one large marshmallow. The objective is to construct the tallest tower possible using only these items while following the engineering process.Here's a detailed description of the activity:Materials: Gather all the necessary materials, includin
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PreK - 12th
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ELECTRONICS DISCOVERY WORKSHOP- Pkt #01- "The RESISTOR CHALLENGE" Montessori
Add more excitement to your STEM program. This "RESISTOR CHALLENGE" is designed using the Montessori Method of education that is based on self-directed activity and hands-on learning. Great item to inspire STEM students and future Technicians, Engineers, and Scientists. Every activity is thoughtfully chosen to encourage exploration, independent thinking, and problem-solving. This activity is designed to be used by students who, after completing it, return it to the shelf ready for others to u
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
CANADA North America Geography Landmarks, Provinces, Cities, Map Continent
Learn about Canada in this interactive Geography bundle - Included are the continent, country and states maps to learn major landmarks, cities, regions and where this beautiful country is on the North American continent. Attach to pins for visual pinning work. So many fun ways to learn!Includes ten (10) pages of resources, sized 8.5 X 11 inches. *Also included in the Canada Activity Book.
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K - 6th
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Marshmallow Bridge Project - STEM / Pre-Algebra / Algebra 1 PBL!
An excellent STEM project to explore equations and inequalities, while also using creativity and engineering! Student develop and plan a marshmallow bridge, purchase materials from you using an imaginary budget, and then construct it over the next couple of days. At the end, the students create a poster of their design and thinking.It's an extremely fun project and the students really enjoy the hands on approach to working with money and mathematics.Materials to provide are small marshmallows an
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7th - 10th
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Timeline of Architecture - Three/Four Part Cards
This PDF can be used to make a set of three/four part cards that can teach children about the different periods of Architectural Styles and when they occurred. Each period has a control card (word and picture), a word card, a picture card, and an information card. Periods included are: Neolithic, Greek, Roman, Gothic, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Brutalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. These cards are a wonderful way to get kids exited about architecture, to inspire creativity, t
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3rd - 8th
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STEM at Home Bingo Board Outside Edition
When learning has to be distant or you might want some extra challenges. Here are 25 simple STEM activities to do outside. See if you can get five across or be a grand master and finish the whole board. Students will have fun completing these challenges. Now includes a link to google slide, make a copy to use and modify however you want!
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Grades:
1st - 6th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 1-ESS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
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Valentine's Day Catapults
Valentine's Day catapults is an awesome hands-on engineering project that can be used in February. Students will learn about simple machines, specifically levers as they explore, design, and test their Valentine's day catapult. Students will also be given opportunities to modify their design and test for both distance, accuracy, and power. During this investigation students will learn about Newton's 1st Law of Motion and the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. Many math connection
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2nd - 7th
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Green/Renewable Energy Hydroelectricity and Wind Turbine Small Posters
Small hand drawn posters that display different aspects of hydroelectric power generation and wind power generation. The connection to both of these types of renewable energy to the electric grid is also presented. This makes a perfect table top display option to talk about hydroelectricity (potential energy conversion) and wind energy (kinetic energy conversion).
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PreK - 11th
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Also included in: Renewable Energy/Green Energy In Class Exercises or Workshop Tools
Mayflower Engineering Challenge
Students will learn will investigate the engineering design process as they learn about the Mayflower, buoyancy, and how sails on a boat work. Students will plan, design, and create a boat to meet specific requirements, while staying on budget. Students will love learning interesting historical information as they are challenged to meet this FUN STEM challenge. I have included a PowerPoint presentation that has been converted to a PDF providing Mayflower information including historical and desi
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3rd - 6th
3D Clay Shapes
Really hone in on understanding all pieces to our 3D shapes with this activity. Students will use the worksheet to record their counts after creating 3D shapes with clay and toothpicks. As a challenge, have your early finishers use those shapes to create a castle. My students love this activity, and it's amazing to hear 2nd graders using such vocabulary correctly.
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PreK - 8th
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Hovercrafts
In this lesson, students will learn about the history of hovercrafts and how they work from a PowerPoint presentation that has been converted to a PDF. This is a great lesson to incorporate discussions on Potential and Kinetic energy. Students will go through the engineering design process to build and test models of hovercrafts using the supplies provided by the teacher. They should make a couple of models to be able to observe and discuss what they are noticing. This is a great Montessori less
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3rd - 6th
Engineering for the Moon!
This is a great lesson that connects history, science, and the engineering design process. Throughout this lesson students will learn about the Space Race, the moon and its characteristics, and engineering. Students will learn about the race to space between the Soviet Union and the United States in the beginning of the PowerPoint presentation (presentation has been converted to a PDF). Then students will learn about the moon and its characteristics and compare them to those of Earth. After disc
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4th - 6th
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Help Save Christmas! Engineers Wanted to Build an Elf Landing Device!
This fun holiday STEM project will have your students explore the engineering design process as they create an elf landing device to help Santa deliver his presents. Students will have to keep in mind the forces of gravity and drag, as well as materials that will absorb shock. Included in this purchase is the engineering challenge presented on a PowerPoint that has been converted into a PDF and the student write up sheet that walks them through the engineering design process. Students will have
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3rd - 6th
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Types of Building Bricks Language Cards | Montessori Distance Learning
Have you ever been building with interlocking blocks and wondered what the name of that piece you were looking for is called? What if you were trying to build the same thing as a friend over a video conferencing call/meeting? These cards show photos of commonly used building blocks and their names. This could be a great activity for matching blocks to the pictures (for younger children) or as a language and vocabulary building activity for all children. Knowing how to talk about these blocks
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PreK - 6th
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Flash Flood Frenzy-STEM Design Challenge
A engineering design challenge inspired by the October 2015 flooding in South Carolina. Students will design and engineer a prototype for a new technology or improvements to an already existing technology used to protect people from the dangers for flooding.
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4th - 8th
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Roller Coaster Design Challenge
Watch your students design and build with their imagination and engineering skills! This design brief gives a background, criteria, and material list to build a functioning roller coaster. I use this at the end of the year and my students LOVE it. ALL you need is tape, paper, and file folders and watch your students build!
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2nd - 6th
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Slide Physics
As we played at the park with our hot wheels, tossing them down a slide, we wondered if we could predict their patterns. So we needed a record sheet. Enter: Slide Physics. I LOVE homeschooling.
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3rd - 9th
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Romeo and Juliet- Hexagonal Thinking Activity
Developed by curriculum designer Betsy Potash, hexagonal thinking is an activity designed to get kids thinking critically, making novel connections, debating, and providing evidence to support their reasoning—by visually connecting a series of ideas written on paper or digital hexagons around a theme.
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7th - 12th
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