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Kindergarten engineering lessons under $5
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
Subjects:
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
...
Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Roller Coaster STEM Challenge (End of the Year STEM Activity) - Summer
***SAVE BIG WITH THE END OF THE YEAR STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, End of the Year and Summer themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in May! With a focus on force and motion, this activity is always a fun way to end the school year.Includes the following components for ROLLER COASTER STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Vis
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Straw Rocket STEM Challenge (End of the Year and Summer STEM Activity)
***SAVE BIG WITH THE END OF THE YEAR STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, End of the Year and Summer themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in May! With a focus on force and motion and the forces of flight, this activity is always a fun way to end the school year.Includes the following components for STRAW ROCKET STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Inte
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
NO Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM Activity Latex Free
Skip the balloons with this latex free Balloons Over Broadway classroom Thanksgiving Day parade lesson! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day parade float! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Students plan, design, and build their own float design. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.Use the f
Subjects:
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
...
Hibernation Station STEM Challenge (Winter STEM Activity) - Animals in Winter
***SAVE BIG WITH THE WINTER STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, winter themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in January! Includes the following components for HIBERNATION STATION 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 Research Videos and Web
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
...
STEM Sub Plans - Paper & tape Only! - Design a Playground
Are you looking for a STEM lab plan? Then this is the product for you! This is a ready to use file! Leave this file with your sub and a variety of different paper types for building............. and leave your class without worry! The lesson only requires different types of paper and tape/glue!!! This is perfect for a sub! ***Please read - this is not a sub lesson plan. This is a lesson you can leave for a sub with minimal supplies!! It is a ready to use STEM challenge. With new rules a
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
Also included in: STEM Sub Plans Bundle
Ricky the Rock Kindergarten Science Force and Motion Kindergarten STEM Activity
Teach about Force and Motion with Kindergarten STEM! Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educational environment in their classroom! In the story, Ricky could’t roll like all of the other rocks because of his shape. Ricky’s friends added different materials to Ricky to change his shape. In this STEM Challenge, students add materials to help their rock roll better. Then, the
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-PS2-1
Rainbow Arch Bridge STEM Challenge (St. Patrick's Day & Spring STEM Activity)
***SAVE BIG WITH THE ST.PATRICK'S DAY STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, St. Patrick's Day and Spring themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in March!Includes the following components for RAINBOW ARCH BRIDGE 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 Instructi
Subjects:
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
...
Peep Nest STEM Challenge (Easter & Spring STEM Activity) - Bird Nest
***SAVE BIG WITH THE EASTER & SPRING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Easter and Spring themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in April! With a focus on animal behavior and bird nest building, this activity is always a hit.Includes the following components for PEEP NEST STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabular
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Playground STEM Challenge - Design a Playground
All kids love recess and the playground! What better way to get them excited about the playground this year than having them design and engineer their own playground! After reading the story My Dream Playground students are asked to engineer their own dream playground. They will be asked to design and engineer their dream playground with at least five playground features! They will test each of their playground features with a building block figure! Their playground features have to work! I
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
Also included in: STEM Bundle for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
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
Subjects:
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
...
Gingerbread Boat Float A STEM Activity
Science, technology, engineering and math, this STEM activity has it all! Problem solving and STEM concepts are used throughout this activity which finds its origins in the story of the Gingerbread Man. Students are presented with a challenge: to design and construct a boat that will withstand the weight of multiple Gingerbread Boys and Girls and float safely across a "river."
In this activity pack you'll find:
* Detailed lesson plan for the activity
* Recording pages for each step of the eng
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
Santa's Parachute / Special Delivery STEM Challenge - Christmas STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE CHRISTMAS STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Christmas themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in December! With a focus on force and motion, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate winter.***Also includes "Special Delivery" STEM Parachute Activity that is not holiday specific.***Includes the following components for SANTA'S PARACHUTE STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Goog
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
...
Shelf for the Elf / Toy Shelf STEM Challenge - Christmas STEM Activity - Winter
***SAVE BIG WITH THE CHRISTMAS STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Christmas themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in December! With a focus on engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate winter.***Also includes "Toy Shelf" STEM Activity that is not holiday specific.***Includes the following components for Shelf for the Elf STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for
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
...
Dinosaur Skeleton STEM Challenge
Dinosaur Skeleton STEM Challenge!!! This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story Dinosaur Dig. We use the book as the hook and problem for our STEM challenge. Students are asked to build a standing dinosaur skeleton for the dinosaur museum. There are constraints for this challenge (size, standing) I have my students for 45 minutes at a time. This lesson gives you information about the book, and links to two videos on dinosaur museums, and a paleontologist. Then it gives you the cha
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
Also included in: STEM Bundle for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Back to School Icebreakers: 5 Get To Know You Activities
Do you need a way to connect with your students for back to school? Are you looking to build a meaningful relationship that will last all year? Find the distance learning version of these activities here. This download includes 5 interactive icebreaker activities that will help educators get to know their students and build a strong relationship. Activities are centered around the theme of student sparks. Sparks were developed by the Search Institute, who explains them as follows: “Sparks are th
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Pollen Collector STEM Challenge (Spring STEM Activity) - Pollination
***SAVE BIG WITH THE EASTER & SPRING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Spring themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in April! With a focus on pollination and pollinators, this activity is always a hit.Includes the following components for POLLEN COLLECTOR 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
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Tower STEM Challenges: 5 Icebreaker Activities
Towers are a great STEM activity to promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. This challenge lays a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.These activities take no more than 20 minutes as the
Grades:
K - 9th
Types:
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Tortoise and Hare STEM Challenge and Growth Mindset Flip Book
As a coordinator or STEM projects, I have started incorporating Growth Mindset lessons together with STEM with great results.
Why is teaching them both together so important? Students with a positive growth mindset are much more likely to take chances, think outside the box, and persevere when their first ideas don't quite work out as planned. This is ESSENTIAL for STEM study and one of the main goals of exploring STEM.
This set is part of a larger Bundle 2 and also part of the Full Year Mega
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 3rd
Spider Web Bridge STEM Challenge - Halloween STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE HALLOWEEN STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Halloween themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in October! With a focus on bridge engineering, this activity is always a fun way to begin the school year.Includes the following components for SPIDER WEB BRIDGE STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabula
Subjects:
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
...
Dinner Table STEM Challenge - Thanksgiving STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE THANKSGIVING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Thanksgiving themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in November! With a focus on furniture engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate fall.Includes the following components for DINNER TABLE STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary
Subjects:
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
...
{Ferdinand} Storybook STEM
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★STORYBOOK STEM ALL YEAR GROWING BUNDLE
Created by Brooke Brown and Katie King, Storybook STEM provides early childhood teachers with weekly all-in-one units to cover essential skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, math, science, and engineering.
This special edition of Storybook STEM accompanies the following book:
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Includes the following:
*Comprehensio
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
Also included in: Storybook STEM {All Year BUNDLE!} STEM and ELA Activities
Turkey Hideout STEM Challenge - Thanksgiving STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE THANKSGIVING STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Thanksgiving themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in November! With a focus on engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate fall.Includes the following components for TURKEY HIDEOUT STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for Paperless Recording and Interactive DisplaysKey Visual Vocabulary ChartPh
Subjects:
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
...
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
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
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