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Engineering teacher manuals under $5
STEM Popsicle Bridge Building Challenge- Step-by-Step Tutorial
This popsicle stick bridge building activity incorporates science, mathematics, economics, engineering, and design. Step-by-Step photo tutorial and student handouts make it easy to implement in the classroom, or at home. The "Ways to Differentiate" page allows accessibility for all students.
13 page tutorial includes the following resources:
Building Background Knowledge
Student Handout
Teacher Key
Steps to Building
Steps to Testing
Ways to Differentiate
Happy Building!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
STEM and Maker Space Notebook for Students
Back to School STEM Resource!Want to Get Organized? The STEM and Maker Space Notebook packet for students is ready for you!Starting a STEM program at your school? Need some basic ideas to get you started?We have put together 43 pages of general information that includes an overview for teachers, support materials, and generic student notebooks for a STEM project or a Maker Space that could be used with any project. We have included:STEM and Engineering IntroductionEngineering Design Process Po
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Grades:
1st - 8th
Also included in: STEM Activities | Fifty Lessons Mega Bundle
STEAM Activity - Not A Stick: An Introduction to Engineering
Are you looking for a great STEM or STEAM activity for your classroom? This is my first STEM/STEAM activity in the “FULL STEAM AHEAD” series! I know that this product will help spark your students’ LOVE of STEM!
What Is the Purpose of This Activity?
Having a “Growth Mindset” is an important concept to help our students achieve. The ability to be comfortable to take chances and make mistakes is important to the growth of our learners and will stick with them into their adult lives. Along with t
Grades:
1st - 5th
EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDING STEM 5E PROJECT MS-ESS3-2 MS-ETS1-4
EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDING STEM 5E PROJECT MS-ESS3-2 MS-ETS1-4 This highly engaging project (GOOGLE and PDF versions) is an engineering and design activity that allows students to gain a greater understanding of why we need to build earthquake resistant buildings, and also some of the features that we can add when building structures in earthquake zones.This highly engaging STEM project follows the 5E model.Engagement:These engagement activities highlight why we need earthquake resistant buil
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ETS1-4
Also included in: Engage in STEM bundle NGSS aligned
STEM / STEAM Activity: Straw Rockets - A Look Into Aerospace Engineering
Are you looking for a great STEM or STEAM activity for your classroom? This is my second STEM/STEAM activity in the “FULL STEAM AHEAD” series! I know that this product will help spark your students’ LOVE of STEM!
My students had a blast with this as they got to learn about what an Aerospace Engineer does and actually become one! This product contains the following:
Presentation Slides Include:
1. A quick look at what an Aerospace Engineer does
2. Engineering/STEM Design Process Poster
3. Slid
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Pinhole Camera: Light Rays and the Camera Obscura - no fail kit - basic science
in brief: STEM lab kit Build a pin hole camera & learn rules of geometrical optics. SIMPLE materials, no mess, 100% success!*What's Inside:1) printable students guide for building a working pinhole box2) extra slides with explanation (print or screen in class)3) question sheet and answer keylearning utilities and goals:Building manual with visual aidsDate collecting and manipulation: a structured inquiryLearning how to use geometric methods for tracing imagesIn some classes, I spiced the les
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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NGSS:
4-PS4-2
, 1-PS4-2
Climate Change STEM project Thermal Solar Panel MS PS3-3 MS ESS3-3 MS ETS1-2,3,4
This highly engaging engineering and design project (GOOGLE and PDF versions) allows students to design and construct a simple thermal solar panel, which they will then perform tests on to maximize thermal energy transfer.The students first learn (or review) about the difference between temperature, thermal energy, and heat.Next they are introduced to a thermal solar panel, how it works, and why it is one of the solutions to climate change. Students then work in small groups to design and constr
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS3-3
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: Engage in STEM bundle NGSS aligned
STEAM Investigations- Making Snow | STEM Activities | No Prep | SEL Connection
Ready for a fun, winter activity that incorporates STEAM, SEL, and sensory play? Let’s bring the snow indoors where it’s nice and cozy and your students can play with it for hours! Making homemade snow is warm, moldable, and non-staining. Better yet, it’s extremely simple!STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) investigations encourage students to explore real-world problems, collaborate, and think critically. This investigation seamlessly blends science, technology, engi
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Winter holiday parachuting STEM project MS ETS1-2 MS ETS1-4 5-PS2-1
This highly engaging engineering and design project (GOOGLE and PDF versions) allows students to gain a greater understanding of how a parachute works to slow down an object.This project has many options offered to teachers depending on the number of periods they wish to assign. It can be done in one period, or extended to include background information on parachutes and why they work (active reading assignment), paperclip and falling rate investigation, student documentation of their designs, a
Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, 5-PS2-1
Also included in: Science Holiday Activities: STEM and Inquiry lessons NGSS aligned
CONSTRUCTING A SPACE STATION THAT WITHSTANDS A COLLISION: STEM MS-PS2-1 HS-PS2-3
This highly engaging engineering and design project (GOOGLE and PDF versions) allows students to gain a greater understanding of why we need to build space stations that can withstand collisions.The students first learn about crumple zones and why they are helpful in a collision.Students design, construct, and test three crumple zones (made of simple materials) to see which is the best for attachment to their space station. A video showing student examples is included.Students then design, const
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-3
, MS-PS2-1
, HS-PS2-3
Also included in: Newton's Third Law Bundle NGSS MS PS2-1 STEM MS ETS1-2,3,4
Lego Club Month 1 "Foundations"
The first month of a 4 month series of Lego Club lesson plans. This is intended for a group to meet twice a month with each meeting lasting 90 minutes. You will need a copy of the book Lego Chain Reactions by KLUTZ to make the chain reaction machines as our club did but you could come up with your own design and create a unique chain reaction machine that fits your style.The lessons include links to youtube videos that we watched and fill-in-the-blank worksheets that go with those videos. There
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Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Hot Glue Gun Safety Contract & Scripted Talk
The first page of this resource is the Hot Glue Gun Safety Rules and Contract to share with students. Print it or share it with your students. The Hot Glue Gun Safety Rules and Contract clearly list 6 rules of how to be safe when working with and around the hot glue guns. There are two tips for using hot glue effectively. Then there is a short paragraph that student will sign that states they were listening to the rules and understand all the rules. The rest of the document is a script of how to
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
As all of us are living in a world of engineering and technology. These slides are prepared on Mechanical engineering with a primary and important features of it.
We come across so many different kinds of mechanical elements in our routine life activities, but we never think or hardly take a stress to know how these mechanical things are playing an important role in our life.
I am sure that definitely science teachers and students will love to refer this presentation.
Regards,
Piyush
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Designing and constructing a medicine cooler STEM MS PS 1-6 MS ETS1-2,3,4
This highly engaging project (GOOGLE and PDF versions) is an engineering and design activity that allows students to apply their knowledge of chemical reactions to build an effective portable medicine cooler.This project supports the NGSS standard MS PS1-6:Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes. The project is launched with a scenario where a medicine needs to be transported on a hike at a desired t
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Grades:
5th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-3
, MS-PS1-6
Scratch Jr. Coding Teacher Guide - 15 Lessons
This teacher's guide includes all 15 ScratchJr Coding lessons. It was created to assist anyone teaching computer programming using ScratchJr. It goes along with the STEMinGames video lessons found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh-lE4JDTAZaqPLNqe4VqF4X4F5H_BLlZThis guide was created to help your students get the most out of each lesson. Play the YouTube video and then tell them to reproduce the coding that they saw. This teachers guide will show what is in each lesson and show samp
Grades:
K - 3rd
STEAM Club - 9 LOW PREP Science Experiments for All Ages
Students of any grade level will love these experiments! Simple directions and low prep make these a great activity for any day! Use them as a curriculum for an after school or extracurricular club, or use them as part of your day!Includes 9 themed lessons & experiments:~ Stages of Matter (Slime)~ Pressure (Coke & Mentos)~ Sound (Oobleck)~ Architecture (Bridges)~ Molecular Attraction (Milk Painting)~ Density (Lava Lamps)~ Gravity (Bouncy Balls)~ Reactions (Elephant Toothpaste)~ Plate Tec
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Lego WeDo 2.0 Robotics Starter Powerpoint for Teachers
All the slides you need to begin your own WeDo 2.0 Robotics class.Includes step by step instructions, that combines ideas from the Lego Education app to get your robotics program started easily.All fonts are dyslexic friendly.
Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: WeDo 2.0 Robotics Class Starter Kit
Bitmoji Science Banner
Make you google classroom personalized with this editable banner to use as your google classroom banner! Replace my image with your own. Place different items on the shelves that relate to the topics you teach. Simply screenshot the banner when you are done and insert into google classroom.
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Not Grade Specific
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Puzzle Cube Project!
This Puzzle Cube Project is great for middle and high school math, engineering, or STEM classes!This project guides your class through creating a 3x3x3 puzzle cube out of wooden blocks, and isometric sketches to serve as a visual assembly guide for their puzzle cube. This project is a great mix of critical thinking, 3D visualization and spatial reasoning, and creativity!Documents included in this download: - Project Setup (this includes suggested grading, materials, process, and project pointers
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Measuring electricity - a Teacher's Guide to Electronics.
This defines voltage, current, and resistance in a way that can relate to students. It covers common misconceptions and discussion points to be had along with analogies to avoid. This is worth a read if you plan on introducing anything involving electronics.This is second part of what I'm calling a Teacher's Guide to Electronics; my attempt to compile what worked and didn't work throughout my career.I'm attempting to keep each part brief and plan on covering everything from basic electronics up
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Make Your Own STEM Flashlight Activity- top seller
Tired of boring worksheets that aren’t worth the paper they are printed on? How about a STEM project that is stimulating and applicable to the electricity lessons you are already teaching? Use this lesson plan to beef up your existing lessons, introduce electricity, or as a culminating activity. This activity is a one-day project that will guide your students to discussion and knowledge far beyond the lesson. I’ve used this project for 17 years and it has never come up short.Students will cre
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
4:30
Making Your Folder Cover Video- Part 2
Students can follow through this video tutorial to develop a fuctional folder cover and further understand the workings of Corel Draw Design Software
Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: Making Your Folder Cover Intoduction to Corel Draw
STEM (Science, Technology ,Engineering and Mathematics) Plans for a Budget
Often, when we think of teaching STEM, banks of computers, fully equipped wood working shops, robotics equipment and advanced design software come to mind. In reality, many school districts, although enthusiastic about these materials do not have a budget that allows for their purchase. In this set of materials you will find a list of free and easy to obtain resources as well as their lab uses, two inquiry based lab lessons complete with printable follow-up worksheets and an explanation for how
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Web Design - The Website Project
This is a website design lesson wrapped around Simple Machines. I wanted my students to get the feel of WEB DESIGN without having to pay hosting fees...so, we used PowerPoint. I went through the process of setting up a PP as the website. We talk about links, images, web directory, etc. but we did it for FREE in PowerPoint. Once you activate the slideshow, it "feels" like a website. The kids loved it!It is written for Simple Machines, but it could easily be rewritten for any topic in any cla
Grades:
6th - 12th
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