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Middle school engineering activities for Microsoft PowerPoint
Engineering Design Process: PowerPoint and Activities
This introduction to engineering includes a presentation in both PowerPoint and Google Slides formats, with notes as well as 3 engineering activities. Students will be introduced to Engineering and the Engineering Design Process. They will then have 3 opportunities to engage in the process. Easily accessible materials makes this very doable in your classroom. In addition to the 14 slide presentation, the activities include:Activity 1: Float Your Boat: Students go through the engineering de
Grades:
3rd - 6th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jessica (Tennessee 5th Grade Science)
Boat Building STEM Activity
This activity will lead your students through the process of building a boat!
1) Brainstorm and sketch a design
2) Calculate the cost of materials needed
3) Build your boat
4) Test your boat
5) Reflect
*It's important to note that this comes in an editable PowerPoint, so you will be able to customize this activity to your needs. For example, if your class is learning about decimals in math, you could change the cost of materials to decimal numbers. Voila...cross-curricular connections! Don't w
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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STEM Bell Ringers Discussion Questions Warm-Ups Middle School High School
Science bell ringer discussion questions, technology bell ringers, as well as some engineering and math topics. This resource includes 70 editable slides with questions to get your students thinking about STEM topics. Display these at the start of class one day a week so that as students walk into your classroom they can begin forming opinions and ideas about these thought-provoking questions! CONTENTS70 Slides (each with a main question and some with a follow-up question) Questions range in top
Grades:
5th - 12th
STEM Water Pollution FILTER Design Project Lab EARTH DAY MS-ESS3-3, MS-ETS1-2
Tap into your students’ creativity as they engineer, design and create water filters as part of a STEM unit on water pollution and primary sewage treatment discussing human impact on the environment. This follows the MS-ESS3-3 EARTH AND HUMAN ACTIVITY standards and the MS-ETS1-2 and MS-ETS1-3 ENGINEERING DESIGN standards. The challenge is for the students to use household materials to create layers in their water bottle filters to clean a batch of teacher created “dirty water”. Once they have h
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: 10 STEM PROJECTS For Middle School- Physics, Life, Environmental Science
STEM Challenge: Egg Drop PPT - Grades 5-8
The Egg-ceptional Packaging Egg Drop STEM Challenge is sure to provide lasting memories for your students as a fun Easter, spring break, back to school, end of school, or anytime it is warm outside activity! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, measurement, and scientific engineering skills!
This product presents a scenario to the students where the CEO of the Egg-ceptional Packaging Plant is needing scientists to design an egg package that would protect
Grades:
5th - 8th
Thanksgiving STEM Challenge: The Great Turkey Race - PPT - Grades 5-8
The Thanksgiving STEM Challenge: The Great Turkey Race will get your students thinking and team-building in those days leading up to Thanksgiving Break! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills.
This product presents a scenario to the students where the turkeys on Farmer Dave's farm must win a race to prevent them from being the main entree at a Thanksgiving feast. The turkeys decide they need a
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle, Volume 1 - Grades 5-8 - PPT
Gingerbread House STEM Challenge (Editable!)
This Gingerbread House STEM Challenge is a great way to add academic rigor to a fun activity before Winter Break! Students will:1) Design their house2) Budget expenses3) Build (and make additional supply purchases, as necessary)4) ReflectThis product comes in an editable PowerPoint, so you can customize the activity to your grade level and needs. For example, for fifth grade students the costs are written as decimals. For younger students, the costs could be changed to whole numbers. Want your s
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Keep students engaged all year long with this bundle of STEM activities for every school break or during school closings! This bundle includes 22 weeks of unique daily STEM activities that can be completed at home. Perfect for summer holidays, spring break, or winter break to keep students learning. Spanish version included for the editable 6-week activity chart! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.Each STEM calendar inc
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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STEM Survivor 2-Day Design Challenge PowerPoint Lesson
The STEM Survivor 2-Day Design Challenge will get your students thinking and team-building before or after a long break, back to school time, or for those days before the end of the school year. Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills!
This product presents a scenario to the students where a couple has been stranded on an island and must design a retrieval device out of materials washed up on the
Grades:
4th - 9th
Aeronautics & Aerodynamics: 13 Day NO PREP Unit Bundle
The STEM Aircraft Aeronautics & Aerodynamics Unit Bundle is a complete self-contained, multi-week, no prep product. There are FOUR separate lessons, each one with a PowerPoint with embedded video clip links, illustrated Student Guided Scaffolded Notes, Teacher Notes, and a Worksheet with Answers. There are also FIVE Activities! Also included are Two Quizzes and TWO Test Assessments.This is an AWESOME unit for Middle School and High School Students. As a BONUS, there is a 13 Day Unit Plan &am
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Christmas STEM Challenge: Jingle All The Way - PPT - Grades 5-8
This Christmas STEM Challenge: Jingle All The Way will get your students thinking and team-building in those days leading up to Winter Break! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills.
This product presents a scenario to the students where Santa needs a new sleigh. Students are asked to design a sleigh that is lightweight and sturdy out of common household items that can tolerate the weight of the
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle, Volume 1 - Grades 5-8 - PPT
Revolution and Rotation Outer Space STEM Challenge - Georgia Science 4th grade
Have fun learning about rotation and revolution with this super engaging STEM Challenge. This is a ready to use STEM challenge connected to Georgia Science Standards of Excellence (S4E2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to model the effects of the position and motion of the Earth and the moon in relation to the sun as observed from the Earth). My PowerPoints are designed as a guide for the teacher and student. They are only a few pages long. I usually just do mini-lessons with my st
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Challenge Bundle for 3rd to 5th grade
Project Based Learning: The Pringles Project (Engineering/Physics/STEM)
For an in-depth preview and classroom pics from my classroom go here: http://pblparadise.blogspot.com/
Using the Project-Based Learning (PBL) framework students will research, design/develop, and test a contraption that when placed into an enevelope can protect a single Pringles chip while it is delivered by the USPS.
This project takes creativity, engineering and mechanical know-how, communication and collaboration between partners.
You will recieve:
* 38 slide Powerpoint
* Teacher Overview
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Halloween Candy Pumpkin Catapults Engineering Challenge STEM Activity FUN
SCREAM into STEM with this Spooky Halloween hands on, problem solving, cooperative learning, STEM Engineering Challenge Activity- Pumpkin Catapults!Improve student engagement and get your middle school students involved in the engineering design process by conducting this student centered, Harvest- Halloween STEM challenge. Great for a sub plan as well.What's Included?★ Clear and easy to follow editable Engineering Challenge slide show.★ Class competition.★ Student Engineering Planning worksheet
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Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Game Designer: A Product Based Learning Unit with the Engineering Design Process
Game Designer is a Project Based Learning Unit using the Engineering Design Process for the middle grades. Students work independently or collaborativelyto design and create an educational game. This is a great STEM or STEAM activity. This unit contains the following components:1. Game Designer Tips – Tips for making and sources to purchase game components2. Game Design Lesson - PowerPoint lesson to introduce the task and teach theEngineering Design Process.3. Game Design Guidelines – Handout fo
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Atmosphere & Weather Unit Bundle: NO PREP! 13 DAYS!
The STEM: Atmosphere & Weather Unit Bundle includes FOUR separate lessons. Each one includes a PowerPoint with embedded video links, illustrated Student Guided Scaffolded Notes, Teacher Notes, and a Worksheet with Answers. In addition, there are FIVE Activities, TWO Quizzes and TWO Tests Assessments. There is also a BONUS FILE. This includes 15 Timed Daily Warm Up PowerPoints and a 13 Day Unit Plan. The Introduction to the Atmosphere lesson covers the following topics:Boundary of the atmosph
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Grades:
8th - 12th
History of Aviation Unit Bundle: NO PREP 13 DAY UNIT! BONUS FILES
The STEM: History of Aviation Aircraft Unit Bundle includes FOUR separate lessons, each one including a PowerPoint with embedded video clip links, illustrated Student Guided Scaffolded Notes, Teacher Notes, and a Worksheet with Answers. There are also TWO Activities, a Study Guide, TWO Quizzes and TWO Tests Assessments. The BONUS File includes THREE Classroom Activities, 12 Daily Five Minute Timed Warm Up PowerPoints, and a Suggested 13 Day Unit Plan. The Activities are:Paper Airplane ActivityHo
Grades:
8th - 12th
STEM Challenge - Float Your Boat 3-Day Challenge - Grades 5-8 - PPT
The Float Your Boat STEM Challenge is a 3-day engineering and design exercise that will get your students thinking before or after a long break, back to school time, or for those days before the end of the school year. Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills!
This product presents a scenario to the students where the captain of a sight-seeing boat company is in need of a better boat that will not
Grades:
5th - 8th
Small Space Wonders: An Easy-to-Implement Tiny Home Design Challenge
Craft Your Ideal Tiny Home: An Interactive and Imaginative Student Activity is a vibrant, hands-on educational toolkit designed to immerse students in the fascinating realm of tiny house architecture. This resource provides an engaging platform for students to explore tiny house design through the use of ready-to-use floor plan symbols. It's crafted to stimulate creativity and practical skills, enabling students to employ these symbols in constructing their own distinct tiny house layouts, furth
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Ultimate Interior Design Bundle for FCS, FACS, Art
Leonardo da Vinci Unit
✔ NOW INCLUDES GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION as well as PowerPoint! Bring your students into the amazing world of Leonardo da Vinci with this complete unit featuring an independent research project, PowerPoint presentation that goes along with all lessons and activities, complete lesson plans for three weeks which include clickable video links, and of course creative fun activities that will delight your students! Activities in this unit include:Research booklet that students complete and colorDa
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Grades:
4th - 8th
ENGINEERING DESIGN, NGSS MS-ETS1 PRESENTATION and ACTIVITY PACKET
Engineering design, engineering design process PowerPoint Presentation, 24 slides and 12 printable worksheets. engineering design activities, engineering challenges, NGSS MS, NGSS engineering design, biologyguy, engineering design worksheet,
Thank you for purchasing this resource “Engineering Design: Presentation and activities ”. This resource is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards MS-ETS1. It is designed to introduce the design process and allow your students to apply what t
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Valentine's Day STEM Challenge: Cupid's Catapult - Grades 5-8 - PowerPoint
Looking for a great Valentine's Day activity that incorporates collaboration, critical thinking, drawing, measurement, and scientific engineering skills this February? Try Cupid's Catapult STEM Challenge. This product presents a scenario to the students where Cupid needs the students to build a catapult to launch piercing hearts a far distance. The students are given a materials list of common household items that they may use in the process of developing their prototype. Students complete th
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle, Volume 1 - Grades 5-8 - PPT
Coding Computer Technology Escape Room (Break out room Computer science)
Coding Computer Technology Escape Room - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, Video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive Superhero Escape Room’ experience. Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading u
Grades:
7th - 11th
CCSS:
Engineering Design Challenge Paper Hoop Gliders Fun & EZ STEM Activity
Are you looking for an engaging, low prep activity to address the NGSS engineering process standards with your middle school kiddos? SAIL into STEM with this hands on, problem solving, cooperative learning, EZ Hoop Glider Challenge Activity! This download-and-teach slideshow requires simple materials (straws, paper & tape) and is perfect for all levels of student achievement. This makes an easy Sub Plan as well!What's Included in this fun Engineering Challenge?★ Clear and easy to follow edi
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Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
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