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Engineering thematic unit plans under $5
Fairy Tale and Nursery Rhyme STEM Activities
Students will be delighted and challenged to complete these 8 different Fairy Tale and Nursery Rhyme themed STEM activities! These are perfect for students to work on whole group, in a small group, or even as a fun and engaging move on activity! This pack includes STEAM activities from:♦ The Three Pigs - House Building Challenge♦ The Three Pigs - Huff and Puff Challenge ♦ The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Bridge Building Challenge ♦ Little Miss Muffet - Spider Web Building Challenge♦ Jack Be Nimbl
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PreK - 1st
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{Snowflake Bentley} Storybook STEM - Winter STEM Activities and Challenges
This unit is also included in our January Storybook STEM, found at the link below:★JANUARY STORYBOOK STEMSave BIG and receive 2 full months for FREE with the All Year Growing Bundle!★STORYBOOK STEM ALL YEAR GROWING BUNDLECreated 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 unit accompanies Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Bri
Grades:
K - 3rd
Building A Tent STEM Activity for A Classroom Camping Theme Increasing Rigor
Keep your students engaged in their learning during your camping theme with this fabulous tent STEM activity. Your students will have a great time as you increase the rigor of your lesson and provide a great hands-on experience that combines many areas of curriculum at the same time. This easy-to-use resource is LOW PREP FOR THE TEACHER and is an exciting way for your students to learn in your classroom. My kids ABSOLUTELY LOVED working through this packet. WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THIS PACKET: ·
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Balloons Over Broadway : A STEM Activity Packet
Need a picture book with integrated STEM Activities for Autumn?Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, is a fabulous picture book for integrating literature, a beloved cultural tradition, and STEM activities. Our series includes activities to support reading, science, engineering, technology, and math. Teachers are saying :"We have tackled this challenge two falls now, and both groups found it completely engaging. They discovered various interesting engineering solutions for creating articula
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in:Â November STEM Activities Bundle
Meaningful Morning Tubs: March STEM Based Ideas
You will love implementing this morning work routine that is meaningful and engaging for students! With these 9 March holiday themed STEM ideas, your students will be busy at work--constructing leprechaun traps, creating shamrock string slides, making rainbows, designing leprechaun hats, inventing green things, assembling basketball goals for March Madness, and more! I keep the supplies needed for my STEM tubs very basic and simple, using items I have at home or in my classroom--pattern blocks,
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K - 2nd
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Martin Luther King, Jr. STEM
Martin Luther King Jr. Activities - MLK STEM - The town wants to honor Martin Luther King Jr. by putting up a monument. The mayor needs the help of your student engineers to come up with some ideas for what the monument should look like. Your students will need to use their creative thinking to come up with a design using only the available supplies and sticking to the budget. This is a completely fun and new way to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month or to study famous Amer
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in:Â STEM Activities Bundle
Creepy Carrots STEM and Science Pack
This STEM Pack is based on the picture book, Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds and is one of my favorite books to tie each component of STEM to my plant and carrot centered science lessons!STEM challenges include: Can your group create carrot coral to keep the carrots in (or the rabbit out?) Can you build a trap to get those Creepy Carrots?This packet contains all the information you need to make this a great science, writing, and math unit in your classroom by using a picture book as your drivi
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1st - 3rd
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Squid Dissection Spiral Review STEM Activities
Are you looking for fun and engaging end of year science review activities? Squid Spiral Review STEM lesson will give your students opportunities to review vocabulary and concepts they learned earlier in the year. Your students will review Classification, Adaptations, Food Chain/Webs, and Basic Anatomy through the learning about fascinating Cephalopods! After your students have learned about cephalopods through short video clips, their interactive notebook and the PowerPoint, they will dissect
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5th - 6th
STEM Makerspace Activities About Inventions
Looking for low to no-prep, self-paced, creative, artistic, outside-the-box thinking STEM activities for your students? Combine the thematic units you are teaching or the literature you are reading with your students, along with whatever scrap materials you can find, for your students with these fun and engaging Makerspace activities!They are a great way to incorporate STEM into your core Reading, Math, Science or Social Studies instruction. They come in a variety of sets so that you can differe
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â STEM Makerspace Activities MEGA GROWING BUNDLE All Units
STEM Makerspace Activities About Insects
Looking for low to no-prep, self-paced, creative, artistic, outside-the-box thinking STEM activities for your students? Combine the thematic units you are teaching or the literature you are reading with your students, along with whatever scrap materials you can find, for your students with these fun and engaging Makerspace activities!They are a great way to incorporate STEM into your core Reading, Math, Science or Social Studies instruction. They come in a variety of sets so that you can differe
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â STEM Makerspace Activities MEGA GROWING BUNDLE All Units
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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2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Rosie Revere, Engineer | A STEM Activity Packet
STEM + Picture Books = Wonderful!Looking for STEM Integration ideas for literature?Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty, is a fabulous picture book with a great girl character. It is a wonderful way to integrate literature into fabulous engineering themes and STEM activities. With activities for reading, writing, science, technology, engineering and math, we provide a complete unit for a charming picture book with a memorable character. Teachers are saying:"Get Caught Engineering hit it out of
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in:Â STEM Activities Seasonal Bundle
Code Your Name Bracelet Making STEM Challenge
Are you introducing coding to your classroom? Look no further than this binary code STEM challenge!This challenge allows students to learn about Binary Code and apply their knowledge to a bracelet making craft in which they code their names using Binary Code! Each bead color will represent a 0 or 1 & don't worry- this download comes with an easy to read Binary Alphabet Guide for students to paste into their notebooks. Perfect for the first week of school, too! The first week of school should
Grades:
2nd - 6th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in:Â First Week of School Activities BUNDLED
STEM: Structures in a context: Kite Building (Research, design, make, review)
When you purchase and download this resource, you will receive an 11 page booklet. It includes all you need to achieve success in teaching your children about structures in making working, flyable kites using recycled materials and minimal resources.This project is aimed at developing both skills in STEM learning alongside team work skills, problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, within a meaningful scenario. The booklet includes:Cover PageContents and resourcesAims of the project
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1st - 5th
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Also included in:Â STEM: 8 Science Projects, lesson plans, worksheets, challenges and resources
Bridge to Terabithia STEM Challenge
Combine technology and engineering tasks and connect to the literature units that you are completing in class. STEM activities were easily incorporated when using the setting of the literature you are reading. This STEM challenge is building a bridge, using only newspaper and masking tape, that will hold a doll/stuffed animal for a set amount of time. Students go through the design loop process and create a prototype and test their work, to see if improvements and adjustments need to be made. In
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Bridge to Terabithia Bundle
Mission to Mars: Design a Mars Rover with littleBits
Updated with new graphics and Google extensionThis resource has been designed to use as a guide to designing a Mars Rover with littleBits. Children will first look at previous Mars Rovers and their jobs before designing, making, and evaluating their own Rovers. This Outcome will allow children to use the Design - Make - Evaluate - Technical Knowledge threads of the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s Design & Technology document.littleBits don’t have to exclusively be used for the Outcome
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in:Â All Things littleBits STEAM BUNDLE
Winter STEM: Reusable Ice Cube Stacking & Patterns
Winter STEM: Reusable Ice Cube Stacking & PatternsEnhance your winter curriculum with this versatile resource! Perfect for exploring topics like igloos, Arctic animals, or winter, these engaging science and math task cards are designed to captivate your students during center time. Unlock the potential of learning through play as students dive into the exciting world of STEM challenges. The pattern cards serve as a fantastic introduction to patterns, sparking creativity as students embark on
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
American Colonial Unit | 13 Hands-on Activity Centers
Are your students studying American Colonial History? Looking for an experience that complements your history lessons? Plan a Colonial Day with history explorations and hands-on activity centers for your students. Our Colonial America Activities Unit provides Hands-on Colonial Centers and Engineering Challenge with Early American Crafts, Games, Food, and STEM!With eight different centers your students will have a wonderful time experiencing food items, crafts, games, and art activities from the
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Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in:Â Early American History and STEM Bundle
Valentine's Day Paper Chain STEAM Challenge
Add some STEAM to your Valentine's Day celebration! With this challenge, your students will be engaged in critical thinking while having fun. Students will be challenged to create the longest paper chain using only one piece of construction paper. Encourage your students to be creative as they engage in the design engineering process. Your students will love sharing their work and graphing the results!Download includes:Challenge, Constraints, &Materials List PowerPointSTEAM Notebook InsertDe
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Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in:Â Holiday STEM Challenges MEGA BUNDLE
STEM Push and Pull Pack With Digital Connections
Looking for a way to use each of the four letters in your lessons? S for Science= push and pull activities dealing with gravity...T for Technology= 9 interactive slides for Google Slides in Google drive...E for engineering a device that can be pushed down a hill...and M for Math= measuring and recording how far the device travels past the end of the hill.This NGSS pack is set for your K-2nd graders to be engaged in every part of STEM from S to M! K-PS2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactio
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K - 2nd
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Native American STEAM/STEM Lesson
Prior to studying Native American Cultural Regions, help students empathize with Native Americans. Through this lesson, students will learn:
- Native Americans relied on natural resources
- Native Americans have to adapt to their environments
- The environment plays a big role in Native American culture
This bundle includes:
- 6 Cultural Regions
- Design plan page for each group
- Teacher Resource: List of suggested supplies
- Teacher Resource: List of testing options
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Caine's Arcade complete "game" description activity- 1 week- PBL/STEM
This is a Pixie project that high tech kids can replicate.
Other than that, it can be used as multiple worksheets that ask several things about the arcade game built by your kids for STEM, and the Caine's Arcade initiative.
It asks: name, designers, rules, purpose, materials, dimensions
Skills: Thinking webs, t-charts, estimation, sequential writing, constructed responses, accuracy in identifying simple machines
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Engineering with Cinderella - STEM Activity
Engineering with Cinderella is a STEM-oriented (but usable in any style learning enviornment) set of three engineering activities geared towards elementary level students. This packet contains everything you need (besides an imagination!) to get a series of engineering activies together to engage with your students and have a blast. A fully-detailed run-down of the activities, materials, and processes are given, along with all the referenced worksheets and a blank planning calendar for your acti
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K - 5th
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Fairy Tale STEM GROWING BUNDLE
Why not build all the components of a fairy tale in real life?
There are five fairy tales covered, each one featuring:
-Directions page
-Play mat
-Materials list
-Anchor charts
-Response pages
-Puppets
-QR Codes
Read the fairy tale with your students and then explore STEM concepts and construct meaning with the help of this guide.
This is currently a growing bundle, there are three fairy tales covered to date. Two more to be added in August, and then more as you request!
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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