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Engineering thematic unit plans for Microsoft Word
SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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4th - 7th
Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Toy Car Golf Math STEAM Design - Gifted and Talented GATE 2nd-4th 9 Hours
Engaging math and engineering with ramps and toy cars! Your students will go home and share the news about how absolutely cool school seems now. My mathematically gifted 2nd graders were VERY Challenged by this unit, and I would not hesitate to use it for 3rd grade GATE or in 4th grade as an enrichment for the whole class.Schoolhouse Rock Math: We’re using Zero My Hero and 5’s Multiplication to learn multiplication, repeated addition, and patterns to calculate areas of rectangles—a very advance
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Origami Frog Obstacle Course Enrichment - Blended Learning Choice Board STEAM
Can you safely navigate your origami frog through the obstacle course?
The Frog Obstacle Course has elements of STEAM, blended learning, thematic units, and problem-based learning wrapped together to make something 100% so cool!
Here we have kid-built engineering, standards-based independent challenges, and hands-on learning adaptable for your class, grade level, or group.
But wait . . . you have to earn your spot on the “frogstacle course” by completing independent, standards-based activit
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Mars Landing Module STEM Challenge (Egg Drop) - Middle or High School Physics
This is a multi-step, usually multi-week Engineering Project that I did in 8th grade physics class for many years, and it was ALWAYS super fun and a highlight of the year. It accompanies a Physics Unit on Mass, Forces, Gravity, and KE & PE Energy, and is best to incorporate project into a 4-6 week unit. It can easily be adapted for grades 6-12, varying the concepts of physics that are expected to be demonstrated.The students design a "landing module" to theoretically land on Mars, while succ
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Simple Machines Invention Project: Research/Model/Presentation
New & Improved!!
This is an amazingly detailed project outline that will walk your students through the design, production, presentation and self-evaluation process of their own invention using simple machines! This will take your students through the whole Simple Machines unit on a self-guided tour with minimal prep for you!
Total Pages: 12.... Ready to Print!
*NOTE: margins must be set to narrow on Microsoft Word for this file to align/print properly
Package includes:
a. A research sh
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Engineering Unit
This document includes a bundle of extensive, detailed lessons regarding the field of engineering. Engineering careers are on the rise today. In order to promote interest in this field, the teacher will provide the students with multiple learning experiences in the areas of language, math, and science. Based upon the students’ unique learning styles and interest, students will engage in problem solving tasks, work cooperatively, and demonstrate individual creativity by developing personal, auth
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Hidden Figures Unit - Week 2 - grades 3-8, Ch 6-10 Questions, Vocabulary, Backgr
Week 2 of the unit includes multiple lessons that involve engineering and aeronautics. Weekly discussion questions are included.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
How wheels help us with transportation
Students will be asked to carry toys from the classroom first, with their bare hands and then, with the aid of a toy grocery cart or stroller in the classroom. They will experience the impact of the wheel in daily tasks. The book, TRANSPORTATION, explains all the different functions the wheel serves society. Next, students will participate in a discussion, using a bubble chart, to volunteer the different times in our day to day lives that we rely on wheels. Finally, their is an art component to
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Grades:
PreK
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
3D Printing, Engineering, Writing, Math and Project Base Learning
My name is Ryan Williams (National Board Certified Teacher and Milken Educator) and I designed these lessons to take students through the engineering process while taking advantage of my school’s 3D printer. These lessons are engaging for both male and female students because of the use of action figures/dolls and problem solving. Your students will take the reins of project based learning and engineering by coming up with a product for the action figure/doll. Writing and public speaking play a
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Hidden Figures Week 1 - grades 3-8 Ch 1-5 Questions, Vocabulary, Background
Thematic ELA Unit Plan Week 1 with background resources for math, SS, and Science included.
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3rd - 8th
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Ham Radio Beginnings and Today Close Reading Analysis STEM
Common Core Test Practice for STEM, Math, and Science can be hard to find for areas taught that help ELA teachers able to integrate and correlate with teaching teams for PLC and theme-related teaching.The non-fiction document included is a common core-based story and set of questions for middle school to high school with higher-level thinking objectives that include word meaning, word choice, citing text evidence, and making connections.Check out the other STEM ELA texts that center around ham r
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Boston Harbor Rescue Ham Radio STEM ELA Common Core Test Practice
Common Core Test Practice for STEM, Math, and Science can be hard to find for areas taught that help ELA teachers able to integrate and correlate with teaching teams for PLC and theme-related teaching.The fiction document included is a common core-based story and set of questions for middle school to high school with higher-level thinking objectives that include word meaning, figurative language, plot elements, citing text evidence, and making connections.Check out the other STEM ELA texts that
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Grades:
4th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-PS4-3
Forces & Motion Inquiry Plan & Engineering Tasks - Science - Design - IB PYP
This bundle includes:A 13 page 6-7 week inquiry unit plan How the World Works which integrates science and engineering/design. Easily adapted to suit your own class/school, it includes: transdisciplinary theme, central idea, lines of inquiry, key concepts and questionsapproaches to learning (ATLs) and learner profile focusagency and action ideasassessment - before views, formative, summative, self-assessment and peer.detailed learning experiences and provocationsscience experiments and engineer
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1st - 6th, Staff
Middle School Fairy Tale Mini-STEAM Unit
Students will learn and discuss the elements of traditional and modern fairy tales. Unit includes compare and contrast, creative writing, and designing and building a "fairy tale contraption."
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6th - 8th
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STEAM Unit Plan - designing walls
Through this unit the lessons build towards several Performance Expectations in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as well as the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS ELA). It is important to remember that the lessons cannot be taught in isolation or the standards will not be addressed. Although the CCSS ELA standards cited here are at the second grade level, the anchor standards from which they were developed can be found at all grade levels.
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2nd - 6th
3D Printing, Engineering, Writing, Math and Project Based Learning Project #2
My name is Ryan Williams (National Board Certified Teacher and Milken Educator) and I designed these lessons to take students through the engineering process while taking advantage of my school’s 3D printer. These lessons are engaging for both male and female students because of space travel, aliens, problem solving, word problems, creative writing and exploration of a newly found planet. Your students will take the reins of project based learning and engineering by coming up with products to he
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3rd - 6th
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30 Next Generation Science Standards Word Wall Words/Flash Cards
These cards are great for word walls or to use as vocabulary cards. I use them in my classroom on my Word Wall. The words are Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards based. I have included a color set and a black and white set for you to use.
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Grades:
1st
Parshat Bechukotai-The Blessing of Rain LP 1- Science, Technology & Engineering
Learning the Parsha through interactive, hands-on, cross-curricular;Social, Practical Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Traditions & Customs, Music, Dance, Architecture, History, Geography, Literature, Reading, Writing, Language Arts, Math, Science, Crafts, Art, Edible Art, Recipes, Games, etc. projects,How the themes of the Parsha resound and can assist us in our everyday lives.RainHistory / Story: Choni HamaagelScience & Montessori: The Water CycleVideos: Science Experiments:Movie:The Boy
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Inventors and Inventions Unit Plan EDITABLE
An 8-10 week editable unit plan based on inventions and inventors. Can be adapted to any age/grade level.
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Not Grade Specific
Spider Web Kindergarten Design Brief
Integrated STEM Children's Engineering Design Brief with Virginia SOLs for Kindergarten
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Dinner Party
Combine all the Social Studies and Science for the year basically. This is a STEM/PBL unit for those looking into a great big fun project.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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