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2nd grade Earth Day resources for GATE
April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
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K - 5th
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Earth Day STEM Challenge Activity - New Earth City
This is the perfect Earth Day STEM activity!The basic idea: It is Earth Day, and the year 2035. Earth has become overcrowded. The students are part of a pioneering crew tasked with setting up the first city (New Earth City) on Planetopia, a fictional name for a recently discovered Earth-like planet in a distant solar system. Part of the mission is to set up the city to prevent or address the problems we are having on Earth so we don’t repeat our errors on our new home planet. This challenge is b
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity & April Challenge | Renewable Energy
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day Shoebox Solar Oven STEM Activity and April STEM Challenge or Renewable Energy Project is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April. Challenge your students to design
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Bird Beak STEM Activities and Pollination STEM Challenge
Learn about bird beaks and pollination while reading a story! Get ready for a STEM adventure with Beth the budding ornithologist. Students will choose which challenges Beth should try as she watches birds. Students will learn about pollination, bird beaks and feeding behaviors, and other fun facts about various birds. Based on their choices, they will encounter different STEM challenges. Materials Needed: In addition to containers of water, you can use any materials you have, but I recommend ind
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for the Whole Year - Upper Elementary 3-5
Seeds of Change Earth Day READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Includes Easel Activity for Google Classroom Distance Learning.Integrate Real World STEM on Earth Day and engage kids by learning about plants and seeds!Teach about the importance of plants with this Earth Day Science Activity! Students learn about the importance of plants. Then, they create their own seed bomb to plant and observe over time.Connect to a Read Aloud: Seeds of ChangeThis STEM Project is a companion activity to Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson. The
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Summer STEM Activities for Building Bricks: STEM Mats
Easy STEM activities for summer! These STEM projects use mats that are SO easy to set up in your classroom. If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers,
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Grades:
K - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle for Elementary Kids is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April.Challenge your students with exciting Earth Day STEM challenge
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2nd - 5th
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STEM Building Activities for Building Bricks like LEGO® Spring Themed
STEM activities for spring that are easy to implement! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. Please note: LEGO is a trademark of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this resource.What You'll GetInstructions a
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K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Winter STEM Activities for Building Bricks: STEM Mats
Easy STEM activities for winter! These STEM projects use mats that are SO easy to set up in your classroom. If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. In addition to a winter theme, these STEM mats also include two mats each for Hanukkah a
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
April Early Finishers Booklet
Use these creative and critical thinking activities to provide enrichment for those early finishers in your classroom! You can choose to use them as individual sheets, or combine them and use the booklet cover.
Includes:
Cover (in case you want to make student packets)
Bakery Scramblegories
Bake Sale Descriptions
Mandala Coloring Page
Earth Day Ideas
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Tech Advances
Ideas for Conserving Energy
Amazing Mazes
Robot Helper
Alphabet Brainstorm
Character Blog Post
Character Em
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2nd - 3rd
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Earth Day Wind-Powered Car STEM Activity & April Challenge | Renewable Energy
Earth Day is here and your teacher life just got a little busier with Earth Day activities you need to plan. Use Earth Day STEM activities to cover standards and give your students super fun Earth Day activities they will love. This ready to go Earth Day Wind-Powered Car STEM Activity and April STEM Challenge or Renewable Energy Project is just what you need to keep your 2nd through 5th grade students engaged and excited for learning during the month of April. Challenge your students to design a
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: April and Earth Day STEM Activities & Challenges BUNDLE for Elementary
Earth Day STEM Center for Building Bricks: STEM Mats
Easy STEM activities for Earth Day! These STEM projects use mats, that are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. In addition to an eco-friendly theme, these mats also touch on geography, the solar
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
TRASH TO TREASURE Trash & Recycling STEAM Unit
This 16-page, 6-hour (more or less...easily adjustable) STEAM unit includes lesson plans, hand outs, parent notes, criteria sheets, and examples for 4 hands-on activities related to trash and recycling!Activities include:Collect trash from outside or around the school to create a Trash Ball. Hypothesize how big the ball will be. Then compare/contrast the balls from different classrooms, grades, areas, etc.Make paper from paper scraps!Design Recycling Posters to put around the schoolCreate Tras
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Landforms STEM Challenge
If you’re looking to apply learning in landforms, weathering & erosion, plate tectonics & more, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully! The basic premise: Students work individually or in partners/groups against a list of criteria and constraints to create the nonliving surface (geosphere & hydrosphere) of the fictional planet, Planetopia. Note: This is the printable version. If you are in a 1:1 / paperless classroom, you will want to
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2nd - 8th
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Earth Day - Depth and Complexity, GATE
EARTH DAY ActivitiesDepth and Complexity Activity with answer key suggestion (details, impact, change over time, perspective, language)Earth Heart Art (oil pastel, water color)Extras: Coloring page, and bookmark
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1st - 3rd
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Earth Day Mystery Math- Addition and Subtraction with Regrouping Enrichment
Who stole the Earth Day Seeds? This fun and challenging problem solving activity has students solve a eight challenging multi-step word problems and two picture/pre-algebra problems, all with a fun Earth Day theme. All problems are focused on addition and subtraction with regrouping.Students open the Google Form and a letter is shown that introduces the mystery to the students. Students then solve the problems and each correct answer gives them a clue in figuring out who took the seeds, where th
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2nd - 5th
Fall STEM Activities for Building Bricks
Easy STEM activities for fall! These STEM projects use mats that are SO easy to set up in your classroom. If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. What You'll GetInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregive
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Grades:
K - 4th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
Science & Engineering Activity: Making Designs - Inventions - STEM Challenge
No prep needed! In this activity, students will create a new design of an existing object. They will also think of ways to make it better, more efficient, or helpful.
The second worksheet can be used as an extension or be provided to challenge students.
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K - 12th
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April Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking!
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
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1st - 3rd
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Spring and Earth Day Creativity Challenges and Activities
Use these creativity resources to foster creative thinking and have your students thinking outside of the box for Earth Day and Spring! Need a quick, no prep, April challenge to get your students thinking outside the box?!Creativity belongs everywhere, especially the classroom! Creativity motivates students to learn, promotes risk taking and problem solving, lights up the brain, assists with emotional development, and gives students an opportunity to learn with FUN!These creativity challenges ar
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: April Spring and Earth Day Early Finisher Upper Elementary BUNDLE
Pollution | Earth Day Song and Packet
I wrote “Pollution” to teach children about this concerning problem, to motivate them to make a difference, and also to improve as readers. Click on the "Preview" button to hear a song sample. Warning: It's a little scary--because pollution is scary!
Your download includes:
1. The song "Pollution" (techno; mp3 format)
2. A karaoke version of the song (mp3 format)
3. A full-color lyric page
4. A black-and-white lyric page for student use
5. A comprehension page
6. Three choices of station
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1st - 4th
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April LEGO Challenges
I am a Librarian and a Lego Center is a constant in my Library. I love incorporating literature with my Lego Center. I will display books related to the monthly themes and also books about inventions. These challenges are perfect for after school clubs, early finisher center, etc... PLEASE let me know of ANY suggestions before you rate this product.
You will find easy challenges for grades K-2 & more detailed challenges for 3rd- 5th grade.
In addition to the April challenges you will find
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PreK - 5th
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Earth Day Crack the Code
Your students will love decoding these earth day messages! Each Google slides presents a different code including binary, morse, Atbash cipher, pig pen and a number code. Each will reveal a special earth day reminder! Includes a Google form so students can self check. This product can be used digitally or as a printable!Decoding messages is a valuable skill for students as it can provide them with various benefits. it can improve their critical thinking skills by requiring them to analyze and
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1st - 4th
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