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Middle school Back to School engineering projects
Paper Chair: Engineering Challenge Project ~ Great STEM Activity!
Engineering Challenge:Can you create a chair that can hold a stuffed animal using paper and tape?Paper Chair ChallengeMaterials Needed: (per individual, pair, or team)- Copy paper (3-5 sheets per chair)- Ruler- Masking tape- Stuffed animal (small to medium sized)- ScissorsThis packet contains all the information you need to make this a great engineering activity in your classroom! Lab sheets, student and teacher instructions, and challenge signs are all included! Using simple and cheap materia
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2nd - 7th
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Also included in: Personalized STEM Pack #19 - 10 Engineering Challenges
Emergency Science Sub Plan or Activity | Root Monster Project
This is a fun and engaging activity that will teach students how to use root words to decipher the meaning of science terms. Students will complete multiple root skill sections including a section where they will make a fun root monster drawing. Their root monster must match the characteristics of 5 science root words. There is also a creative writing section where students will write a story about their monster that must include at least 7 science root words.Included:★ Activity Directions★ Root
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5th - 8th
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Paper Roller Coasters - Marble Tracks Made From Paper
Learn the principles of motion by building paper roller coasters with your students. Build marble runs using only paper and tape. The Paper Roller Coaster templates have been used in schools in all 50 states and over 30 countries. The download includes templates for building twelve different pieces, an instruction manual with over 90 color photographs, and four lessons designed for grade levels from fourth grade up through high school physics classes. The preview gives directions and template
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4th - 12th
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Ancient Civilizations STEM Activities Project Egypt Pyramids Greece Rome History
Ancient Civilization STEM & STEAM Challenges Bundle for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students! Cross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations This bundle contains 8 StudentSavvy STEM Resources! The Stone Age | Early Humans, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient India, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome STEM Challenges! {UPDATE: A DIGITAL VERSION IS ALSO INCLUDED USING TPT'S NEW DIGITAL ACTIVITY TOOL!}This resource is p
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3rd - 7th
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Ancient Egypt Activities STEM Challenges Pyramids STEM Challenge Project Craft
Ancient Egypt STEM & STEAM Challenges Cross-curricular challenges for students who are studying Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Egypt! This resource has science, technology, engineering, and measurement activities to do with your upper elementary kids that will really enhance their learning! There are 2 Egypt STEM Challenges in this pack. Each STEM Challenge has detailed directions, photo examples, a list of materials needed, prediction section, brainstorming section, trials 1, 2, & 3,
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3rd - 6th
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EDITABLE Math About Me Project - Back to School Printable Digital
Starting out a new school year can always be daunting but providing your students with a fun and engaging way to get to know one another can always help lighten the anxiety, especially in a math classroom. This project is great for a Back to School, Open House, or just about any time during the school year. This activity easily allows students to demonstrate prior math knowledge while letting you (and their classmates) know a little bit about themselves.Included in this download are:Teacher Dire
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5th - 8th
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Math All About Me for Middle School - Activity and Bulletin Board
Are you looking for an engaging math about me worksheet? This is the perfect first day activity for math class. You can use the task cards as a tool to help you teach your students transitions and rotations. The unique final picture that the students create makes a great bulletin board for back to school night!Download includes a PDF file with the following: - Teacher's directions and example- Bulletin Board Title- Student Bunting Banner to complete- 8 task cards with directions for the banner-
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4th - 8th
All About Me Google Slides Activity + Class Slideshow/Ebook - Back to School
Build class community and get to know your new students with this engaging back-to-school activity that's distance-learning approved! During this Google Slides activity, students will create an “About Me” slide with the provided editable templates. When finished, students will turn in their slides and you will compile them in a collaborative class slideshow/ebook that can be posted on your LMS or class website (or even emailed to parents/guardians). Building relationships is SO important, especi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner
Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri
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K - 12th
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Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place
STEM Oil Spill Challenge - Earth Day STEM Activity
Oil Spill STEM Activity - Great for Earth Day! Learn about the effects of an oil spill on the environment through a hands-on engineering challenge! The goal of this challenge is to clean up all of the oil from the feathers and from the water in the time provided. Students will work in teams to devise a plan to get the oil spill cleaned up in a specified time of work. Distance learning update: Activity has been updated to accommodate distance learning including instructions on creating a material
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2nd - 9th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ESS3-3
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Camping STEM Challenges
STEM Camping Challenges are three activities that your students will love while exploring the theme of camping. Students will design and construct boats, tents, and fishing poles. These challenges will engage your students as they design, engineer, and test their creations. Students will go through the Engineering Process as they build and test their creations using various materials to construct it. ⭐This product is included in my STEM BUNDLE #2 Challenge! Your students will love designing, cr
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3rd - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges Entire Year includes End of the Year STEM Activities
Intro to Leadership or Student Council Unit with Activities Projects Middle High
Start your Leadership class or Student Council off on a successful year with this introductory unit filled with enough student-centered, get-them-thinking activities to use for 2-3 years before any repeats- great if students are in student government year after year! Then, culminate student learning and growth with a campus-wide Kindness Project to kick off a positive year.This unit kit comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides!Greatness is maximizing all group members' strengths to
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6th - 12th
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STEM Catapult Math & Engineering Activity (Angles and Ratios)
Take the classic STEM challenge to the next level with design optimization and math connections! This STEM catapult challenge involves engineering, geometry, ratios, critical thinking, and teamwork in an engaging activity your students will love! Using the engineering design process along with math skills, teams of students will build two catapult designs from common materials. Each team will then test at three stations: Distance, Accuracy, and Power. Included are follow-up math problems for enh
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3rd - 11th
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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: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
Student Council Advisor Notebook - Application Election Constitution Templates
Build a solid Student Council Government program with these templates of a constitution, candidate application, election and meeting minute templates, plus a calendar of events and idea sheets.Also included is a Student Council Advisor How-To Guide handbook that's 45 pages, chock full of the best tried-and-true systems, step-by-step checklists, and insider advice for starting a program from scratch or revitalizing one. All 30+ forms and templates are fully editable Google Docs and Slides files.
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6th - 12th
All About Me Back to School Activity: First Day Getting to Know You Flipbook
This back to school flipbook provides a fun way for students to share facts about themselves and their lives. Use it as an icebreaker activity during that first week of school. It is ideal for teachers who want to get to know their new batch of students. Most students are quite eager to introduce themselves to their teachers, too, so they are super engaged as they complete this back to school activity! Students write and draw facts they want their teacher to know about themselves, and teachers c
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Back to School Flipbook Bundle: Printable and Digital
Mission to Mars Semester STEM Unit + Mars Colony Project!
Need a semester-long STEM unit? This Mission to Mars bundle includes engineering design challenges building up to a capstone project of building a habitat on Mars! Lesson Overview Transform your classroom into a team of astronauts on a Mission to Mars! This STEM curriculum begins with Stage 1 team challenges that build teamwork and communication skills. Mission Control then guides your class through Stage 2 engineering design challenges with each unit a progressively more complex design challeng
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6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ESS1-3
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
STEM Activities and Challenges Low Prep Engineering Design Process and Careers
The best variety of low prep STEM activities you'll find! These 20 STEM and STEAM activities can be completed with readily available materials and minimal prep - you can even use these for sub plans! Students will get hands-on exploring different STEM careers with these activities. Each activity is designed to take about one class period however the activity can span across two class periods to give ample time for redesigns and re-testing, or for a repeat challenge using different materials.Thes
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Back To School Activity - Soundtrack of My Life / Playlist of My Summer
Looking for something to engage your students at the start of school? Why not get your students writing about the music that best represents them and their unique lives by creating a list of their favorite and most meaningful songs? This engaging activity can either be used as "Soundtrack of My Life" or "Soundtrack of My Summer" - the full download includes options for both. Easily adaptable to different ages and abilities! This is a fun activity for the beginning of the year and will allow yo
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Back to School / First Week of School - "Get to Know You" Activities
Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
End of Year STEM Project Forces Motion Newtons Laws Assessment Bottle Rockets
This product is one of the most engaging and meaningful activities I do all year long! What kid wouldn’t want to build and launch rockets!?! Just take a look at an email I received from a former student about her memories of the bottle rocket lab and how it changed her life: Hi Mr. Williams,“How is Oak Crest lately?I was in your physical science class a loooooong long time ago (2008) and I thought I'd let you know that your bottle rockets project was what first got me into space propulsion. It w
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
, MS-PS2-1
STEM Challenge Paper Airplanes Experiment Problem-Solving Easy Prep Activity
If you are ready for a highly engaging STEM challenge, this Airplane Challenge is for you! You know students love to throw paper airplanes so take advantage of that energy with this STEM project! Students will experiment and use test results to design the ultimate paper plane.➡️ Click here to save 20% with a bundle including this resource and 2 more flight challenges.What is the challenge?This SUPER resource contains a complete STEM lesson, using the Engineering Design Process, covering 3-5 clas
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Flight Challenges - 3 Engaging Problem-Solving Projects
Bobblehead Autobiography Project
Set the stage for a fun-loving classroom community with “Bobblehead Autobiographies.” Students will love creating a bobblehead version of themselves while also honing their skills for descriptive, informational and narrative writing!
Sharing out + presenting their Bobblehead Autobiographies afterwards is also guaranteed to bring about tons of smiles + laughter among your kiddos.
A PERFECT way for students to introduce themselves at the beginning of the school year... or to showcase their gro
Grades:
K - 6th
Engineering and STEM Careers Research Project and Activities for Middle School
Teaching students about exciting STEM careers is one of the most important things we can do to inspire our next generation of scientists and engineers! But, what does it mean to have a career in STEM? What are some STEM career examples? You can answer these questions and more with this multi-day research project. Grab all the Engineering resources and save today!In this project, students meet science, reading, and writing standards as they research an engineering career of their choice and creat
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6th - 9th
Graphing Project Data Analysis Great White Shark Project Graphing Activities
What kid isn’t fascinated by the mysterious and terrifying Great White Shark?! This paper OR digital graphing activity will get your students involved in graphing real data from the amazing website Ocearch! Students will learn about 4 different types of graphs–- bar graphs, scatterplots, pie charts, and line graphs–- and they will create 5 different graphs and analyze them using data they collect from the Ocearch database.Ocearch is a scientific data collection organization that tracks the movem
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
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