Kindergarten Engineering Building STEM Activities and Lesson Plans
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Combine the joy of reading picture books with hands-on, fun, and engaging STEM activities! This bundle resource includes lesson plans and kindergarten STEM activities for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics. Each content area of STEAM has 3+ days of lessons and activities perPrice $25.00Original Price $30.00Save $5.00
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Teaching STEM activities in Kindergarten is easy and fun with this book companion to "Mechanimals" by Chris Tougas. This engineering design experiment and STEM activities resource includes 3+ days of lessons and activities perfect for group work, writer's workshop or as center activities where students are using problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
As a large group or focused small group activity, students and teacher will build an animal robot using recycleables and other makerspace materials. Students become "engineers" as they record in their STEAM journals the building process of this experiment. The main focus of these Kindergarten STEM activities is on engineering, but students will also be applying technology, science, the arts, and math concepts to this interactive read aloud book companion resource.
The Early Years STEAM Cycle of Read, Talk, Create, and Share, combines the joy of reading storybooks and the creativity of STEAM challenges. The STEAM cycle has been specifically designed for children in the early years - pre-school and kindergarten age, to develop their critical thinking skills through hands-on problem-solving challenges.
Low prep and easy to implement with materials you already have in your classroom, these Kindergarten STEM activities promote critical thinking, problem-solving, perspective-taking, and collaboration. The detailed lesson plans and learning how to be a STEAM thinker activities, prep students for the STEM activities they can complete on their own or in a small group.
This is a book companion to "Mechanimals" by Chris Tougas - you will need a physical or digital copy of the book to complete the activities and lessons.
What's Included?
●Lesson Plans for 3+ days
Lesson 1: interactive read-aloud story comprehension
Lesson 2: learning about S.T.E.A.M. & group STEAM activity
Lesson 3: individual STEAM challenges
●STEM Activity Challenge Cards
●Early Years STEAM Design Cycle: information & resources
●Planning Sheets for STEM activities
● S.T.E.A.M. poster
●Thinking like a S.T.E.A.M. book
●STEAM coloring pages
●Story problem poster
●Writing / Drawing pages
● S.T.E.A.M. journal pages
This resource is GREAT for:
✓Large Group interactive read aloud instruction
✓Small Group interactive read aloud instruction
✓Individual assessment of story retelling and story comprehension
✓Makerspace Activities
✓Activity Centers
Student Goals:
❇ Problem Solving
❇ Creative Thinking
❇ Story Retelling
❇ Story Comprehension
❇ Asking Questions
❇ Making connections
❇ Growth Mindset
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