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Free critical thinking projects
FREE! End of the Year: Teach the Teacher Day! {Now with Google Drive link}
This is my favorite project for the last week of school! Students plan a lesson about any topic of their choice. On one of the last days of school, have students present their lesson. You will be amazed at what you learn from your students!This freebie includes a lesson plan template for students and teacher tips. I just updated it with a rubric, too!Just added 5/21/2020 Google Drive option for distance learning. This would make a fun Zoom activity for the last week of school! *******You might
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2nd - 5th
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STEM Activity Challenge Marshmallow Catapult 3rd-5th grade
STEM Project for Third, fourth and Fifth grades.In this activity students will work in groups to create a catapult from popsicle sticks. They will modify their catapult in order to produce the best launch possible. Kids will have a great time launching mini marshmallows across the room while learning about potential and kinetic energy.***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes teacher instructions,
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (Upper Elementary)
Marshmallow Challenge Handout
This FREEBIE includes a color and black and white handout to provide to teams of students engaging in the Marshmallow Challenge activity. This activity is great to use as an icebreaker or to engage students in critical thinking, cooperative learning, and innovative thinking. It can also be used to reinforce basic principles of physics or as a fun math activity involving measurement.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Shelter Building STEM Challenge
This FREE STEM challenge is designed similarly to the other STEM Challenges in my store. I am offering this one as a free sample so that you can experience the joy of STEM with your students. The “problem” presented in this shelter building challenge was a real life situation that happened to my family and me this summer on a back country hike. We got caught out in a rain storm on a hiking trail and were forced to quickly solve the problem of building a shelter to keep ourselves and our gear
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Paper Airplane STEM challenge
Challenge students to build a paper airplane that can go at least go as far as possible. Building a Paper Airplane provides opportunities for investigation, team work, developing design skills and understanding the four forces of flight. ..................................................................................................................................................................Similar Resources:Parachute STEM challengePaper circuit activityAnemometer STEM challengeBalloon car
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM BUNDLE (AIR based projects)
STEM Engineering Project: Building a Gumdrop Tower (Elementary)
STEM Elementary Engineering Project {Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade}In this S.T.E.M. lab, students will work in groups to create a tower from toothpicks and gumdrops (or Dots). They will discover challenges and setbacks as their structure gets taller. Their goal will be to have a tower that can support its own weight and be as tall as possible!***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges for the Whole Year! (Elementary)
Fraction Family Flip book template pages
Fraction Flip Books that highlight fact families and equivalencies instead of order.
Fourth and Fifth grade teachers…. Stop making fraction books that put unit fractions in descending or ascending order. Instead, group those fractions in to families. Deeper learning and understanding occurs.
Folding paper strips provides for deeper understanding than when the teacher provides a strip already labeled. They see the connection between the fraction family unit fractions when they fold and label
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2nd - 7th
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STEM Activity Challenge - String Telephone (Elementary)
STEM Elementary School Classroom ProjectIn this activity, students will work in groups to connect two plastic cups with a piece of string. They will talk to their group members on the opposite side of the classroom with it. Students will learn about sound and the vibrations that are needed for sound to occur!This STEM Activity Challenge includes teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet), grading rubrics, a demonstration video for the teacher, a materials needed sheet, and the rela
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (Elementary)
Career Exploration 2-5-8 Projects
15 differentiated assessment projects for middle and high school career exploration class. Students complete two projects to equal 100 points. Each project is either worth 20, 50 or 80 points depending on the complexity of the projects. Students can choose an easy (20 point) project and a more complex project (80 points) to total 100 or can choose to do two 50 point projects. Project products include students creating posters, children's picture books, creating a quiz, conduct an interview,
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7th - 10th
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I Dare You... to Design a Bakery Project Based Learning
A no-prep, project based learning activity for students to learn about addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, graphing, and budgeting while having fun designing their own bakery. Differentiated activities are available based on skill level. What's Included:Step 1 > Name your bakeryStep 2 > Design the outsideStep 3 > Design the inside (floor plans and budgeting)Step 4 > Plan your menuStep 5 > Advertise your business (budgeting and ad designing)Step 6 > Sell
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2nd - 4th
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STEM Makerspace Activities FREEBIE
Combine thematic units and creative, artistic, outside-the-box thinking in these STEM and STEAM 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 differentiate based on your student’s needs. These are open-ended Makerspace lessons, so they are less 'science experiment' and more 'maker'. They are less 'directions, guidelines and lists of materials' and more 'here is th
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K - 3rd
Fairy Tale S.T.E.A.M Activities - Caution: Castles Under Construction FREEBIE
Turn your fairy tale unit into an integrated study of the scientific, artistic, and mathematical thinking behind castle construction with this S.T.E.A.M. activity pack! Extend your students' thinking and ignite their imaginations by sharing literature, facilitating research, and providing materials that encourage them to become royal builders!Steps to follow, literature links, video recommendations, and hands-on material suggestions are included, along with full-color photographs of castles fro
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1st - 3rd
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STEM Activity Challenge Levitating ping pong ball 6th - 8th grade
STEM Middle School Classroom ProjectStudents will work in groups to discover the phenomenon that occurs when a ping pong ball is placed above a straw and air is blown through the straw. Most people would expect the ping-pong ball to fly up and off to the side—but it doesn't. Due to Bernoulli's Principle, the ball will hover in the air above the straw. This project can end with a demonstration using a shop-vac or hairdryer with a ping-pong ball that will produce the same interesting results.***If
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #1 (Middle School)
Minecraft STEM Activities and Challenges Freebie
Here’s a creative and fun STEM Activity FREEBIE to share and show just how exciting STEM Challenges can be in a Competitive Classroom Setting! These Outta the Box Classroom Competition Challenges can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during your science block. This hands on building challenge is part of GATER Educator's "Outta the Box Classroom Competitions". The theme of the full OTB Classroom Competion is “MINECRAFT: Survival Mode”. For this activity students will read tidbits of info
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: MINECRAFT Activities Bundle
Critical Thinking Activities | Break the Code Win a Kite Challenge Freebie
Students will work together while using critical thinking skills to help solve challenges related to kites. This Break the Code activity is the perfect way to engage and motivate your students. Try this one for FREE before purchasing others.More Details:This is a fun-filled activity that will have your students using critical thinking skills and problem solving. Students work collaboratively to solve two different challenges.The challenges include:Place Value LogicSecret WordStudents will be act
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2nd - 4th
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STEM Activity Challenge - Lava Lamps (Middle School)
STEM Middle School Classroom ProjectIn this S.T.E.M lab, students will work in groups to make a lava lamp from a water bottle. After filling the water bottle with oil, water, and food coloring, students will drop some effervescent tablets in and watch their creation come to life! This is a quite simple project for middle schoolers, but it's lots of fun.***If you are interested in a differentiated version of this resource for grades K-8, please click here.This STEM Activity Challenge includes te
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (Middle School)
Passion Project Plan
Help students start their PASSION PROJECT off on the right foot!
Use this planning template to guide the passion driven learning journey!
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K - 8th
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FREE Summer STEM Activities
Summer STEM Box Challenges Send your students off for the summer with 10 different STEM activities to try at home!! This printable packet includes:• STEM Engineering Process Page / Poster• Parent Instructions (How to put together a "Summer STEM Box”) • Suggested Materials• 10 STEM Challenge Cards• Planning sheet• Reflection SheetThis is FREE!!! Try it out and let me know what you think! :-)And by the way….if you’re in the market for some great STEM labs…....please check out my store for tons of
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K - 2nd
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Passion Project/Genius Hour Starter Sheets (FREEBIE)
Are your students completing a Passion Project or Genius Hour? These activities are awesome ways to encourage creativity and critical thinking in your students, but they can be daunting to start from a teacher's perspective. My Passion Project/Genius Hour Starter Sheets are the perfect way to help your students begin thinking about what interests them, identify a topic, formulate research questions, and plan out their research and presentation. One brainstorming sheet and one planning sheet are
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3rd - 8th
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Flip Book
Just in time for Earth Day! This flip book will teach your students about reducing, reusing and recycling. The students will color, cut and glue pictures in the correct category.The prep is easy and fast! Just fold the flip book in half and cut the front side into three sections. The students will sort the pictures according to reusing, reducing and recycling.
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PreK - 1st
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Paper Folding Direction Following and Sequencing for Older Students {FREE}
It's a snowflake, it's a flower, it's a star, it's a sun, it's a pinwheel! It can be any of the above, depending on what time of year you decide to use it! This year-round paper folding activity is a fun and functional way to address direction following and sequencing. This direction following activity is geared toward older students who need to strengthen direction following skills---- an age-appropriate project that contains language extension activities. Ways to address speech and language
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5th - 10th
STEM Project- Create a Marble Rollercoaster!
Students work cooperatively to design a rollercoaster around a theme, create the rollercoaster using construction paper, tape, and a shoebox, maintain a modifications log, and compete against other rollercoasters. The rollercoaster that has the longest time for a marble to roll all the way through their coaster wins!
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4th - 8th
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Free Preview Design a Zoo: A Digital Project Based Learning Experience
Thanks for choosing this project based learning experience for your students! They are sure to have fun, be creative, and learn some valuable skills.
This is a free preview of the full product.
In Design a Zoo, students take on the role of a design consultant asked to create a new zoo. Students will need to:
–Name the Zoo
–Create a welcoming sign
–Select the animals
–Design animal habitats
–Create information sheets
–Create a budget
–And present their work to a "Board of Directors"
This exp
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3rd - 8th
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Fun Decimal Operations Real World Application
Take your class on a field trip to the Natalica Zoo! Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals in this fun field trip planning activity. Includes a brochure to use with the activity and a complete lesson plan.
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6th - 8th
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