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Science Common Core K.G.A.3 pdfs
STEM Challenge: Build Toothpick Structures
These 24 toothpick STEM structure cards help kids develop abstract thinking, engineering, 2d and 3d shape recognition and shape knowledge.-----------------------------> Bundle with all of our STEM challenges and SAVE! <-----------------------------After building each shape, children take their learning one step further and label the number of vertices and edges. The STEM structure cards are perfect for engineers from preschool to second grade!Just grab a box of toothpicks and a container o
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Year of STEM Challenges
2D Shapes Geometry Math Task Cards Special Education Kindergarten Centers
In your special education classroom, are you working on geometry? Task cards are a great way for your students to work on their identification and fact fluency for 2D shapes in real life and in symbols.These 60+ task cards work on identifying 2D Shapes in Math. Easily differentiate in task boxes with levels from errorless work to 3 answer choices. Mix them up or work on question levels separately!These task cards can be used during direct instruction, individual work, and in task boxes. Appropri
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PreK - 1st
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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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Year of STEM Challenges
"This is BY FAR the most comprehensive, FUN low prep STEM bundle I’ve ever bought. Love it, and so do the kids!" - Nikki M.Looking for easy prep, fun to solve STEM challenges for kids?! This epic bundle combines ALL of my STEM challenges into one easy purchase - my best selling landmark cards, toothpick and playdough STEM structures, weight and length challenges... they're all here! And that means you'll get an entire year of STEM challenges in one easy download.Each activity pack includes easy
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PreK - 3rd
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STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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Kindergarten STEM Activities Alphabet STEM Challenges
Tired of hearing "NOT ANOTHER WORKSHEET!" from your kindergarteners? You're not alone. Keeping the alphabet exciting can be as tricky as herding cats! If you've spent hours googling activities for each letter, only to find your students still struggling, I've got something that'll make your teacher heart sing: Introducing Simply STEAM's Alphabet STEM Activities for Kindergarten! These alphabet activities are your secret sauce to banish boring from your classroom and introduce a world of fun and
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PreK - K
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
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Flat and Solid Shapes Geometry for Kindergarten First Grade
Are you looking for a resource to teach All About Shapes? Everything you need to teach geometry for kindergarten and first grade is included in this hands-on shapes resource. Your students will learn all about flat shapes and solid shapes through posters, task cards, readers, games, and more.Using pattern blocks, popsicle sticks or toothpicks, and marshmallows your students can build flat shapes and solid shapes following the directions from the many task cards that are included. These hands-
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PreK - 1st
Kindergarten Interactive Notebooks Bundle~Literacy, Math, Science
This Kindergarten Interactive Notebook Bundle includes Literacy, Math, and Science Activities. This Bundle will save you over 33% off as these products would cost $50.00 if sold separately. It also includes many of the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards for the Entire Year! It is a fabulous way to get your students to practice their skills and show off what they have learned. It has very simple cut-outs that make it super easy for young kinders who are just getting used to using
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K - 10th
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K-PS3-1
, 1-ESS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
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STEAM: Soccer Ball Collaborative Project
Get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with this fun hands-on collaborative project. Typically done during a Family Math Night event, this project can also be done in the classroom. The best part is, each person is individually represented in the final product!Participants will learn how a soccer ball design is based on a truncated icosahedron through an introduction to 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional geometry. They will create one of the panels
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PreK - 12th
Geoboard Task Cards Activity Fall
Geoboard Task Cards Activity FallThis is a set of fall geoboard activity cards that have so much variety and are differentiated for your needs. There are ten different geoboard pictures: Leaf (1), leaf (2), apple, pumpkin, rake, acorn, tree, basket, corn and a mushroom. Each geoboard task card picture comes in an easy or challenging level. Within each level, you have a choice of a geoboard card that shows the bands or a simple line (which allows the students choice). You have the option to p
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Geoboard Mats Task Cards
(STEM) STEAM: Sierpinski Pyramid Collaborative Project
Get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with this fun hands-on collaborative project. Typically done during a Family Math Night event, this project can also be done in the classroom. The best part is, each person is individually represented in the final product!Participants design a tetrahedron which will be used to create a large Sierpinski pyramid.Included in the lesson plan• list of materials needed• mathematical background• mathematical vocabular
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K - 8th
STEAM: Tetrahedral Kite Collaborative Project
Get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with this fun hands-on collaborative project. Typically done during a Family Math Night event, this project can also be done in the classroom. The best part is, each person is individually represented in the final product!Participants create individual tetrahedrons using straws, string and tissue paper that are used to build a tetrahedral kite. The lesson includes the mathematical background with a focus on ge
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K - 6th
STEAM: Sierpinski Triangle Collaborative Project
Get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with this fun hands-on collaborative project. Typically done during a Family Math Night event, this project can also be done in the classroom. The best part is, each person is individually represented in the final product!The project includes three activity levels all which result in creating self-similar triangles which are then put together to make the large Sierpinski Triangle. Focusing on fractals (self-sim
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PreK - 8th
Kindergarten Science Center Activities, Nature Collections, Sensory Bin or Tub
Set up a Cool Collections Station, sensory bin or nature tray in your classroom science center and invite preschool, kindergarten or homeschool children to explore the properties and attributes of objects, while utilizing the science practices of observation, counting, sorting, classifying, ordering and measuring. ✅How Does This Science Center Work?:Each week, month, or season choose a new collection to add to your Cool Collections Station, sensory bin, or nature tray. Collections can be gather
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PreK - 1st
8 Low Prep STEM/ STEAM Dinosaur Activities Preschool, PreK, K, 1, 2, Homeschool
Here are 8 STEAM Activities and Challenges for children ages 3-6, which focus on dinosaurs. Each activity blends the educational approaches of all these areas: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Mathematics. These are all very LOW-PREP. The only recommended resource you need to buy, aside from typical craft & nature items, are dinosaur figurines! Topics are:Living vs. Nonliving Organisms (Science: Needs & How Things Grow)Nesting in Nature (Science: Animals Meet their Needs/
Shape Insects Crafts bundle
Simple, fun and educational crafts that you can add to your Insects unit in Kindergarten or first grade! Helps work on counting and cardinality skills, as well as geometry. Makes for a very nice bulletin display in your classroom. These are hands-on and visual learning craftivities!Optional one page craft - send home with your students during distance learning through google classroom. Have students color all the pieces, cut out all the shapes and follow pasting guide to put their craft together
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K - 1st
QR Code MEGA BUNDLE | Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies
Ultimate QR code MEGA bundle with QR code resources for the entire school year! Includes 216 QR Read Aloud, 220 Science and Social Studies videos with response sheets, and 11 QR Math Scavenger Hunts. No need to buy any other QR code resources!!ALL QR codes in this resource are dynamic. That means that you will only need to print the resources one time! If a code becomes broken, I fix it on my end, but it still uses the same QR code! This was a HUGE game changer in my classroom!I use the read alo
Kindergarten Block Center Challenges, Block Building Play Ideas and Activities
These block center challenges are my favorite way to offer block building activities in my kindergarten classroom, but can also be used in preschool, first grade or homeschool. Use these block play ideas as an independent activity, station, play tub, or for morning work, choice time or small group lessons. Just add blocks and a few simple props and you are ready to go!When children visit the block building center, they explore both math and science concepts through exploration and experimentatio
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PreK - 1st
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K-ESS3-1
, K-LS1-1
Halloween STEM Challenge 3D Shapes October STEAM Activities Witch Fall Low Prep
This Halloween STEM challenge will get student to design their own haunted tower and use math skills to answer questions. Includes a DIGITAL version too! Students will review shapes with the slide show, and try building those 3D shapes.LOW PREP for any maker space or STEAM class. Great for lower elementary as a center or as a whole class activity. Set up is easy! Use foam balls or play doh and tooth picks!Looking for more Halloween challenges? Save 30% and receive ALL activities! CLICK HERE fo
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K - 3rd
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Trees CURRICULUM INTEGRATED UNIT and tree projects
Trees CURRICULUM INTEGRATED UNIT and tree projects.Looking for an editable CURRICULUM INTEGRATED UNIT about trees? We got it!This digital tree unit resource contains a complete daily schedule -- for a typical full day of school -- with planned out activities to help teachers run their classes creatively and smoothly. This document works as a digital planner with a combination of on-line and off-line activities. It offers teachers a great way to organize their days in one place. Each day is fille
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K - 2nd
BIRDS CURRICULUM INTEGRATED UNIT Project based
This CURRICULUM INTEGRATED BIRD UNIT is a great option for Online TeachingThis digital week-long unit contains a complete daily schedule -- for a typical full day of school -- with planned out activities to help teachers run their classes creatively and smoothly. This document works as a digital planner with a combination of on-line and off-line activities. It offers teachers a great way to organize their days in one place. Each day is filled with curricular integrated activities that follow a p
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K - 3rd
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STEAM Maker Challenge Bundle (8.5 x 11)
This bundle includes all you need for 6 STEAM explorations that can be used in a variety of ways, from 15-20 minute challenges to multiple-period explorations.Designed with emerging English language speakers in mind, these activities can be used in mainstream as well as bilingual classrooms, with learners from various backgrounds and levels of ability. They are also designed to introduce or reinforce different language objectives, such as the use ofComparative and superlative adjectivesSimple pr
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1st - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 2-PS1-2
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Fall Garden Lesson Plans and Activities - Pre K and Kindergarten - Ten Weeks
Kids will love these FALL Garden-based Science, Nature, and Nutrition Lessons written for Pre-K and Kindergarten students (they can also be used with older children). The included autumn activities serve as an introduction to growing your food, while exposing children to planting and harvesting crops, depending on the appropriate season. Lessons also incorporate a healthy dose of age-appropriate nutrition, while planting the seed about the importance of taking care of our planet. Resource Highli
Apple Activities for Apple Day or Apple Week
Are you looking for fun and ENGAGING activities to help you and your students celebrate Apple Day or Apple Week? Or maybe you are teaching about apples and fruit in your science lesson and you want to incorporate and combine math and reading into your lesson. If so, then look no further! This huge black and white print-and-go NO PREP packet has almost everything you will need for basic ELA and Math concepts with an apple theme! These activities and worksheets will be perfect for September and Oc
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K - 1st
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- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
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