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3rd grade engineering thematic unit plans
ONTARIO SCIENCE: GR. 4/5 Forces Acting on Structures & Pulleys and Gears Units
In this hands on, minds on unit both grades will be engineers exploring and building things. The 4s will look at how pulleys and gears are used in our daily lives to make work easier. They will learn the science behind both of these simple machines and have opportunities to experiment with these through hands on experiences. The 5s will look at the forces that engineers need to consider before building a structure. Force, load, tension and compression are all explored through hands on - mind
Grades:
3rd - 5th
{Snowflake Bentley} Storybook STEM - Winter STEM Activities and Challenges
This unit is also included in our January Storybook STEM, found at the link below:★JANUARY STORYBOOK STEMSave BIG and receive 2 full months for FREE with the All Year Growing Bundle!★STORYBOOK STEM ALL YEAR GROWING BUNDLECreated by Brooke Brown and Katie King, Storybook STEM provides early childhood teachers with weekly all-in-one units to cover essential skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, math, science, and engineering.This unit accompanies Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Bri
Grades:
K - 3rd
Paper Airplane Integrated Unit Thematic Unit
Wheeee! Are you looking for a dynamic, engaging unit for your students to practice measuring, aerodynamics, and so much more? The paper airplane unit is for you...and them!Are your students ready to fly the friendly skies? Are they ready to test their skills as a pilot? Are you looking for an integrated unit? Then this is the unit for you and your little test pilots!This is a complete one week integrated unit. This is perfect for project based learning, too! Included in this unit are the fol
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1st - 3rd
Amusement Park Design Project
Design your own Amusement Park! This fun unit consists of 16 worksheets that will challenge students in their creative thinking, research skills, design and engineering abilities.Digital option available! Please note, some worksheets transfer nicely into a digital version but many are designed to be completed on paper or as a hands on STEM/STEAM activity.The package includes:1. Unit title page2. Student title page3. Park research worksheet (internet access for students recommended)4. Art activ
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: STEAM Project Bundle
Science MEGA Bundle Grades K-5 Entire Year Science (NGSS Aligned)
I decided to put this MEGA BUNDLE together because I have noticed that several buyers purchase multiple SCIENCE ENTIRE YEAR Super Bundles for different grade levels. I’m guessing these buyers are science teachers at the elementary level, homeschool parents with multiple levels of kids, or principals purchasing for the school. This bundle includes all of my grade level super bundles for grades K-5 aligned to NGSS standards. Each grade level includes the activities bundles and the presentations
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Grades:
K - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, 5-ESS2-2
, 1-ESS1-1
, 4-PS4-2
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Thanksgiving Centers | STEM CHALLENGE
Hands on, memorable, unique Thanksgiving center activities that celebrate history and culture. These stations are designed to enrich our students by learning about and building Thanksgiving staples such as dreamcatchers, pinch pots, drums, and more! This pack includes: -7 different station signs, shopping lists, examples, drying/collection station signs, templates, organizers, and more! -Stations include: dreamcatchers, headwear, food (corn), placemats, pinch pots, berry art, home construction-E
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: FALL Activities Bundle
Summer STEM / STEAM Ideas
This STEM and STEAM product shows you different ways you can incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math into your summer learning.
Teacher idea page and worksheets included in this set are:
Astronomy
-Phases of the Moon Handout (freebie in my store)
-Constellation Study Sheet
-Design a Rocket handout
-Moon Dough Recipe
Animals
-Build a Nest design page
-Animal Habitat design page
-Animal Habitat minibook
-Animal Graphs handout
-Animal Homes drawing page
-Bird Watching powerpo
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Grades:
K - 4th
STEM Bundle 110 Activities Back to School
Are you a classroom teacher looking for a way to integrate STEM or STEAM activities into your current curriculum? This is a bundle of STEM STEAM challenges to use throughout your school year. This bundle contains 110 activities for you to choose from and Completion Coupons to give your students once the activities are completed. We have tried to include activities that will supplement what you are already doing in your classroom. The activities are grouped by months, but you can obviously mov
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2nd - 4th
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STEM "Career Fair" Project Based Learning Now with a Lapbook!
Now including a STEM Careers Lapbook!!!This pack will help introduce students to STEM careers! This project based learning activity includes teacher suggestions and resources, student research sheets, project/writing planning worksheets, and materials to conduct a mock "career fair". This project can easily incorporate Reading/ELA standards and skills.
Students will have a blast researching high interest careers in the STEM disciplines and will have the opportunity to role play in their chosen
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Balloons Over Broadway : A STEM Activity Packet
Need a picture book with integrated STEM Activities for Autumn?Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, is a fabulous picture book for integrating literature, a beloved cultural tradition, and STEM activities. Our series includes activities to support reading, science, engineering, technology, and math. Teachers are saying :"We have tackled this challenge two falls now, and both groups found it completely engaging. They discovered various interesting engineering solutions for creating articula
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: November STEM Activities Bundle
STEM Challenges | 8 Reading Genres
STEM Challenges: 8 Reading Genres is a packet of plans and activities for 8 Weeks of Genre Challenges. Students will love learning about the different book genres as they explore, create, and engage in themed activities. Your students will want to try different genres after each week of fun activities! This product is great for classrooms, libraries, after school clubs, or summer programs! This packet contains weekly suggestions for 3 different activities, snack idea, sample invitations, printab
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Roller Coaster STEM Model Building Contest Project for Engineering and Physics
This project includes 6 sections including research, exploration, design, build, showcase, and reflection. It takes students step by step through designing a functioning marble roller coaster with a theme and building it. It comes with multiple rubrics to grade each section and a set of reflection questions at the end. This project can be lengthened or shortened by requiring more detailed projects. When my students did this project, it took about 10 days to make detailed, functioning rollercoast
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3rd - 12th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. STEM
Martin Luther King Jr. Activities - MLK STEM - The town wants to honor Martin Luther King Jr. by putting up a monument. The mayor needs the help of your student engineers to come up with some ideas for what the monument should look like. Your students will need to use their creative thinking to come up with a design using only the available supplies and sticking to the budget. This is a completely fun and new way to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month or to study famous Amer
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Creepy Carrots STEM and Science Pack
This STEM Pack is based on the picture book, Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds and is one of my favorite books to tie each component of STEM to my plant and carrot centered science lessons!STEM challenges include: Can your group create carrot coral to keep the carrots in (or the rabbit out?) Can you build a trap to get those Creepy Carrots?This packet contains all the information you need to make this a great science, writing, and math unit in your classroom by using a picture book as your drivi
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1st - 3rd
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Twelve Days of Christmas from the Teacher
The month of December, in the classroom, can be a rough one for both teacher and students. Why not help yourself get through the month and add some fun, engaging, and time-filling activities with this "Twelve Days of Christmas" activities from the teacher set?This Twelve Days of Christmas Activities set is jam-packed full of fun for the intermediate classroom! Each of the twelve days' activities is coordinated with the lyrics from the Christmas carol, "Twelve Days of Christmas." Your students wi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Bridges Unit
This unit includes the following:
Bridge Schema Page
History of Bridges Research Page
Types of Bridges Research Booklet
-Beam
-Cantilever
-Truss
-Arch
-Suspension
-Moveable
-Famous Bridges
Design a Bridge Planning Page
Design a Bridge Blueprints Page
Presentation Slides for:
History of Bridges
Types of Bridges
-Beam
-Cantilever
-Truss
-Arch
-Suspension
Moveable Bridges
Famous Bridges
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Engineer YOUR Name: Project Based Learning - STEM/STEAM Challenge
In this challenge, students will dig into learning what it means to use the 4C's during a project. (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Once teams are created, students will have to collect data on the letters in each member's first name. Students will then create the exact amount of letters needed to create a unique and creative representation of each group member's name. To complete the challenge, each student must take a photo of their name. This activity is perfe
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K - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Project Based Learning - Real World Challenge Problems Bundle
Fall STEM Bundle 29 Seasonal Challenges
Are you a classroom teacher looking for a way to integrate STEM STEAM activities into your current curriculum? This is a bundle of STEM STEAM challenges to use in the fall during September, October, and November.This bundle contains 32 activities for you to choose from. We have tried to include activities that will supplement what you are already doing in your classroom. The activities are grouped by months, but you can obviously move them around to suit the needs of your own classroom.You cou
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2nd - 4th
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Gingerbread Christmas Activities | Christmas Themed Day | Christmas STEM
Gingerbread Christmas activities for an entire day of engaging lessons are all planned out for you with this fun product! Gingerbread activities for reading, writing, language, social studies, science, and math are all included. Now including an interactive digital version made for use with Google slides!Your students will LOVE all the hands-on activities. You will love having meaningful, standards-based activities AND an entire day of instruction planned out for you! This product is perfect t
Grades:
3rd - 4th
NGSS:
4-PS3-3
, 4-PS3-1
Also included in: Christmas themed days BUNDLE | Elf Activities | Gingerbread Activities
Spring STEM Bundle 43 Seasonal Challenges
Are you a classroom teacher looking for a way to integrate STEM STEAM activities into your current curriculum? This is a bundle of STEM STEAM challenges to use in the spring during March, April, May, and June. It includes Completion Coupons that you can give to your students when they complete and activity. This bundle contains 43 activities for you to choose from. We have tried to include activities that will supplement what you are already doing in your classroom. The activities are grouped
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2nd - 4th
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Toy Car Golf Math STEAM Design - Gifted and Talented GATE 2nd-4th 9 Hours
Engaging math and engineering with ramps and toy cars! Your students will go home and share the news about how absolutely cool school seems now. My mathematically gifted 2nd graders were VERY Challenged by this unit, and I would not hesitate to use it for 3rd grade GATE or in 4th grade as an enrichment for the whole class.Schoolhouse Rock Math: We’re using Zero My Hero and 5’s Multiplication to learn multiplication, repeated addition, and patterns to calculate areas of rectangles—a very advance
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Animal Traits- Engineering Design Process - Project Based -SMASH STEAM Challenge
Animal traits and animal groups are actually difficult for many students to learn efficiently! I can't tell you how many students over the years believe snakes have no backbone! In the Animal Traits SMASH Challenge, students will apply what they learn about animal groups and animal traits to SMASH a new animal species into existence! Creativity is endless with this challenge!!!!Included in the document:Teacher Instructions for Animal Traits SMASH ChallengeReal-World Problem presentation"I can" S
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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NGSS:
1-LS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 4-LS1-2
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Winter STEM Bundle 36 Seasonal Challenges
Are you a classroom teacher looking for a way to integrate STEM STEAM activities into your current curriculum? This is a bundle of STEM STEAM challenges to use in the winter during December, January, and February.This bundle contains 34 activities for you to choose from. We have tried to include activities that will supplement what you are already doing in your classroom. The activities are grouped by months, but you can obviously move them around to suit the needs of your own classroom.You co
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2nd - 4th
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STEM, STEAM Invention Mash-Up Challenge - Project Based Learning
Where do companies get ideas for new products? Have you ever asked yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?" Forced connections is an idea creation strategy used by companies to create new products. Brainstorm teams are given unrelated items and asked to create products with characteristics of both items. The Invention Mash-Ups Challenge gives students the chance to practice this strategy while creating a product model. Students will create a model and share their product with others. Let the crea
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Grades:
K - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Project Based Learning - Real World Challenge Problems Bundle
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