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8th grade Earth Day engineering resources for Montessori
Paper Roller Coasters
Paper roller coasters is sure to be a project students will love! It is an engineering project that requires collaboration, problem solving, exact measurement, and a knowledge of physics. Students will explore and put to test Newton's Laws of motion while building their vertical paper roller coaster made out of card stock, tape, and a foam board for the base. You will be amazed at your students creativity in designing and problem solving. I love how cost efficient this STEM project is, using onl
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5th - 9th
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Potato Plant Experiment - Observing Plant Growth & Plant Life Cycles
Potato Plant Experiment - Observing Plant Growth & Plant Life CyclesPotatoes can also be easily grown in your classroom; all you need are some potatoes (any kind), a container such as a cup or jar, and toothpicks! Students will see the plant life cycle in action with this hands-one experiment that demonstrates how some plants can grow without seeds. Contents include:Experiment GuideObservation LogExperiment Reflection (3 short answer questions)Potato Life Cycle PosterPotato Life Cycle Inform
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3rd - 8th
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3D Earth Globe Model w/Montessori Colored Continents & Flashcards
Create a 3D Paper model of the earth with detailed outlines of the continents in Montessori colors. Exclusive design!! Comes with detailed instructions how to put the pieces together as well as flashcards to pair with the individual continents. Great activity to pair with both study of the continents as well as learning about space.
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PreK - 8th
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Knot Tying Guide | Knot Poster | Knot Booklet | Knot Tying Activities
Is your child interested in tying knots? Or, do you want your children to learn basic knot skills that will help them throughout their life?This knot-tying guide will teach your child the following basic knots:Reef KnotTaut-lineBowlineSheet BendClove HitchEach knot includes an introductory card that details how the knot can be used and another card with step-by-step images that show your child how to tie each knot.You'll also receive a poster to help reinforce their knowledge of the knots that t
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3rd - 12th
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Ball Drop Challenge
Introducing our dynamic, NGSS Supporting, lesson plan: "Building Blocks Engineering Challenge - Ball Drop!" Engage your students in an immersive exploration of engineering principles through hands-on experimentation with building blocks.In this captivating lesson, students will delve into the heart of the engineering design process by tackling a challenge: safeguarding a delicate marble from the impact of a drop. Armed with their ingenuity and problem-solving skills, students will brainstorm, pr
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K - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
Continent Three-Part Cards, Montessori World Study
Just in time for Earth Day! Here's a freebie to help your little ones study our world. These cards will help your child explore the seven continents. This simple set includes fourteen cards, two for each continent. The continent colors are designed to match your Montessori continent puzzle material.I have continents coloring pages, too! They are a wonderful extension for this work. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ALL-7-Continents-Globe-Coloring-Pages-Montessori-World-Study-3761948Hav
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PreK - 8th
Bridge Bundle: Create Weight-Bearing,Fixed, Movable and Truss Bridges with Paper
Explore the physics and design of bridge building with just paper, tape and scissors! The Bridge Bundle includes 4 project guides, 3 student worksheets, 7 Technique pages and 2 Reference pages for use with K-12 students. The 28-page Bundle includes the Weight-Bearing Bridge Experiment, an introductory activity that introduces paper as a strong building material. The Bundle also includes three open-ended project guides that focus on different approaches to creating fixed, movable (including drawb
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PreK - 12th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS3-1
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End of School Year S.T.E.M. Challenges / Summer STEM
10 summer-themed S.T.E.M. challenges for the end of the school year. Includes reflection questions that can be discussed or written at the end of each challenge. Available in 2 sizes so they can be either projected on the board or printed off and used as task cards.Each challenge can be completed using common items found at school and/or home.Easily adaptable to suit a wide range of ages and skill-sets.Fun and engaging to keep students learning right up until the last day of school!
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2nd - 10th
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Landscape Paper Collage Unit
In this unit, students will explore the ideas of collage and how to create an interesting and creative collage. This unit will mention a contemporary collage artist with a link to a video so students can grasp some of the process of creating a collage. This slide show includes questions for individual or group work, instructions, and visual work examples. This can be done on a small or large scale.
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8th - 11th
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ELECTRONICS DISCOVERY WORKSHOP- Pkt #01- "The RESISTOR CHALLENGE" Montessori
Add more excitement to your STEM program. This "RESISTOR CHALLENGE" is designed using the Montessori Method of education that is based on self-directed activity and hands-on learning. Great item to inspire STEM students and future Technicians, Engineers, and Scientists. Every activity is thoughtfully chosen to encourage exploration, independent thinking, and problem-solving. This activity is designed to be used by students who, after completing it, return it to the shelf ready for others to u
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Low Prep - Easy STEM End-of-Year Activity - Engineering & Building - Marshmallow
The Marshmallow STEM Tallest Tower Challenge is a fun and engaging activity that combines principles of engineering, problem-solving, and creativity. In this challenge, participants are given a set of materials consisting of 20 pieces of dry spaghetti and one large marshmallow. The objective is to construct the tallest tower possible using only these items while following the engineering process.Here's a detailed description of the activity:Materials: Gather all the necessary materials, includin
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PreK - 12th
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Marshmallow Bridge Project - STEM / Pre-Algebra / Algebra 1 PBL!
An excellent STEM project to explore equations and inequalities, while also using creativity and engineering! Student develop and plan a marshmallow bridge, purchase materials from you using an imaginary budget, and then construct it over the next couple of days. At the end, the students create a poster of their design and thinking.It's an extremely fun project and the students really enjoy the hands on approach to working with money and mathematics.Materials to provide are small marshmallows an
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7th - 10th
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Eocene Epoch Colorful Bundle: Baltic amber, Basilosaurus, Miohippus, bat
Eocene Epoch colorful illustrations Bundle (5 different illustrations):Sciadopitys- Fossil inclusions in Baltic amber from the pine species Sciadopitys, including ancient insects and plant materialBasilosaurus- A primitive whaleDiatryma- A giant flightless birdMiohippus- a primitive horsePalaeochiropteryx Tupaiodon- One of the oldest bats knownFile Formats:PDF formatEPS vector format for flexibility. Vector files are scalable to any size without compromising quality, allowing for optimal classro
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5th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet- Hexagonal Thinking Activity
Developed by curriculum designer Betsy Potash, hexagonal thinking is an activity designed to get kids thinking critically, making novel connections, debating, and providing evidence to support their reasoning—by visually connecting a series of ideas written on paper or digital hexagons around a theme.
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7th - 12th
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Constructing Time A Hands-on Tech Project on Building Sundials and Water Clocks
Middle school students work with their hands deconstructing and constructing time-pieces from ancient time to today. This activity is a part of a bundle: “Ancient Time Bundle”. In this practical work project, students will learn how timepieces are made through the process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Moreover, this guided activity will allow them to build and calibrate their chosen time-telling device, to customize each clock depending on their design and function, and to deeply underst
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: STEAM Project on the History of Time
Bridge Engineering Unit
Use hands-on collaborative labs, vocabulary, and three-part cards to learn about types of bridges, tension, compression, loads, dissipation, buckling, and more. Great way to experience the engineering design process and have a rich STEAM experience. This comprehensive set of materials can be used as a complete unit or broken into separate activities. Includes two and three part term, image, and definition cards, vocabulary, two hands-on labs, and supplemental handouts. Can be used over a period
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4th - 8th
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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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GLOBAL WARMING: Survival Kit - Reflective activity!
Are you looking for a creative way to make your pupils reflect about Global Warming? Then use this resource and follow the instructions to make your students create their own SURVIVAL KIT for 2054!Get the PDF with the instructions, a page with an appropriate picture to design their own survival kit and a reflective task. This activity promotes self-reflection and addresses multiple intelligences!Thank you for trusting The Breaching!Don't forget to follow my Store and Instragram account for more
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8th - 11th
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Earth Day Activity, ALL 7 Continents Globes, Montessori
Just in time for Earth Day! This listing includes two versions of each coloring page: one with blue indicating the water, and one that is completely white. Each coloring page features a globe with one continent in its center. This is a fun extension activity for your geography studies. Children can use their continent puzzles or continents three part cards to identify the unmarked boundaries for each featured continent as they color the page.
You can find my FREE continents three part cards he
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PreK - 8th
Timeline of Architecture - Three/Four Part Cards
This PDF can be used to make a set of three/four part cards that can teach children about the different periods of Architectural Styles and when they occurred. Each period has a control card (word and picture), a word card, a picture card, and an information card. Periods included are: Neolithic, Greek, Roman, Gothic, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Brutalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. These cards are a wonderful way to get kids exited about architecture, to inspire creativity, t
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3rd - 8th
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Weather Printables | Weather Station | Weather Posters | Weather Cards
Your students will love going outside to check the sky with their fun weather printables.They’ll excitedly run back inside to change the arrows and move the pegs on their weather station..There’s so much to enjoy inside this weather printable pack.Instantly download the following:Weather StationWeather Vocabulary CardsWeather ViewerWeather JournalWeather DiceWeather GarlandWeather PostersPlease don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this pack.This pack comes in A4 and 8.5 x
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K - 8th
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Green/Renewable Energy Hydroelectricity and Wind Turbine Small Posters
Small hand drawn posters that display different aspects of hydroelectric power generation and wind power generation. The connection to both of these types of renewable energy to the electric grid is also presented. This makes a perfect table top display option to talk about hydroelectricity (potential energy conversion) and wind energy (kinetic energy conversion).
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PreK - 11th
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Also included in: Renewable Energy/Green Energy In Class Exercises or Workshop Tools
3x bee classroom posters | bee anatomy | honey bee
This listing is for 3 bee learning posters, available to download and print in A4 size - great for classroom displays,homeschool walls or add them to your other nature unit studiesWhat you get1x A4 bee anatomy poster1x A4 3 different bee species1x A4 how honey bees make honey posterWe believe strongly in natural learning and learning about nature
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: WHOLE SHOP BUNDLE DEAL- reggio emillia, montessori , nature school
3D Clay Shapes
Really hone in on understanding all pieces to our 3D shapes with this activity. Students will use the worksheet to record their counts after creating 3D shapes with clay and toothpicks. As a challenge, have your early finishers use those shapes to create a castle. My students love this activity, and it's amazing to hear 2nd graders using such vocabulary correctly.
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PreK - 8th
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Water Cycle Manipulative
This is a great hands on activity for elementary, middle, and high school students to learn about the water cycle. With this activity students can use what they already know about the water cycle to create their unique flow of water. This truly is an activity in which the teacher can be the facilitator and guide them through the construction of the water cycle. I especially love it because all of the different combinations of paths the students can create. The card's terms have short definitions
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-3
, HS-LS2-5
, 5-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-4
, MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Bundle: Carbon, Nitrogen, Water Cycle Manipulative
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