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Earth Day basic principles resources for GATE
Kindergarten STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for Kindergarten students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, engineering, and math standards! Six challenges are provided for the following major science content areas: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions, Energy, Earth's Systems, and Earth and Human ActivityPages 5-9: Racecar RampPages 10-14: Pompom CatapultPages 15-19: Shady SpotPages 20-28: Season SuitcasePages 29-33: Home Sweet HomePages 34-38: Trash to TreasureEach challenge in thi
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K
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Fourth Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for fourth grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards! Six challenges are provided to cover major science content areas: Energy, Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer, Earth's Systems, and Earth and Human ActivityPages 5-9: Pinball MachinePages 10-14: Nifty Night LightPages 15-21: Brick by BrickPages 22-27: Map a MountainPages 28-32: Solar SnackPages 33-37: Shaky StructureEach
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4th
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First Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for first grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science and engineering standards! Six challenges are provided, two for each of the major science content areas: Waves: Light and Sound, Structure, Function, and Information Processing, and Space Systems: Patterns and Cycles.Pages 5-9: Musical InstrumentPages 10-14: Communication CodePages 15-19: Super AnimalPages 20-24: Tree-mendous RootsPages 25-29: Shadow ClockPages 30-34: Earth and SunEach ch
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1st
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Third Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for third grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards! Six challenges are provided to cover major science content areas: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions, Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits, Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, Earth's Systems, and Earth and Human ActivityPages 5-10: Magnetic MazePages 11-15: Marshmallow Catapult Pages 16-22: Genetic LinksPages 23-27: Super Anim
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3rd
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Fifth Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for fifth grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards! Six challenges are provided to cover major science content areas: Matter and its Interactions, Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions, From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes, Earth's Place in the Universe, and Earth's SystemsPages 5-9: Balloon CarPages 10-14: Candy ChemistryPages 15-19: Perfect ParachutePages 20-25: Plant EssentialsPa
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5th
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Save The Bees Clipart Set - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
This is a set of images that show ways to help protect the bees:Images included are: bees, child putting out basin of water for bees, beehive box, beehive house, beekeeper kids, kids with 'buy organic' bags, examples of bee friendly flowers and weeds (clematis, daisies, dandelion, delphinium, poppy, sunflower, thyme) kids with hive drawer, hive, organic honey jar, weedkiller with separate red cross (to show no use of weedkiller), save the bees word art sign.48 images (28 in color and the same 28
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Care For The Earth Clip Art Bundle - EARTH DAY {Educlips Clipart}
Push and Pull STEM
This Pushes and Pulls engineering STEM activity engages students' problem solving skills, engineering thinking, and math skills for Force and Motion. They will love creating a way to successfully move the rocks! This STEM activity targets the NGSS Standards for Force and Motion.
In this Pushes and Pulls Engineering challenge the truck broke down, but the rocks still need moved! Students will build a way to move the rocks using the available supplies, but be sure to stay on budget!
Please
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K - 3rd
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
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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Marble Maze STEM
Balls and Ramps STEM - The toy company wants to sell a marble maze. They need designers to come up creative ideas for a new marble maze. Your students need to design a marble maze on a cardboard box lid using the available supplies while sticking to a budget. They will use their creative thinking, engineering design and math skills for the STEM challenge. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting
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K - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Makerspace Project Ideas
Over 50 STEM Project Ideas!52 open-ended STEM project ideas that are perfect for your Makerspace, STEM Center, or STEM Lab! With so many ideas to choose from, students will always have motivation to keep making throughout the year!Simply print the light bulbs on colored paper, cut out, laminate, hole punch, and attach to a ring for easy student access. Blank light bulbs are included as well for students to contribute their own STEM project ideas! *Please note that this resource is NOT editable!*
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1st - 5th
Also included in: Setting up your MakerSpace Bundle
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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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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Also included in: EASY MATERIALS STEM ACTIVITIES with End of Year Summer STEM -
FREE Summer STEM!
This FREE half-sized Summer STEM booklet is perfect to keep your little engineers engaged over summer break! Eight summer-themed challenges are provided in a choice board format, along with student recording sheets and a final reflection sheet. Open-ended challenges can be completed using common household materials and materials found in nature.
I hope you and your students LOVE it!
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K - 4th
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Force and Motion STEM: Sled Building
Sled Building STEM - Oh no! School is out for a snow day. The stores are closed, but the children want to sled. Help them by building a sled that will slide down the hill. Use your creative thinking because you can only choose from the available supplies and you must stick to the budget.
Your students will love learning about force and motion with this sled building challenge! This STEM covers several NGSS standards and promotes engineering thinking.
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K - 5th
Also included in: Winter STEM Bundle
Ecosystems & Environmental Concerns PBL | Science Project Based Learning
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach about different ecosystems and their environmental concerns? Interested in student driven learning?This Project Based Learning unit allows students to learn about ecosystems by examining an environmental issue within an ecosystem. Students act as environmentalists as they research the causes and effects as well as problems and solutions of an environmental issue by examining the different factors that make up an ecosystem. This is a student-centered wa
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Science PBL | Project and Problem Based Learning Bundle
April STEM Activities with Earth Day STEM Challenges and Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The APRIL STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids fac
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3rd - 6th
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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
What Problem Will You Solve: A Critical Thinking and Writing Activity
So often, we ask students what they want to be when they grow up but let's shift the mindset. Instead, pose the question of, "What problem will you solve?" This project encourages students to think both critically and globally to help solve issues in our world today. Included in this product are multiple ways for students to brainstorm problems, vocabulary, and processes. There is also draft and final publishing paper that can be used to write a culminating essay.This is a great beginning OR
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle: Monthly Writing Projects for Upper 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.
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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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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
April Early Finishers Choice Board
An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Try a FREE Sample: August
This is part of a bundled package:
Monthly Choice
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3rd - 5th
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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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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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K - 4th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
ACT Science Practice Chromosomes and Inheritability Worksheet
I wrote this practice passage as like the ACT practice passages are for Science Section. I catered it towards my current unit in Biology on Genetics- specifically chromosomes, inheritability and meiosis. The answer key and some ACT Science tricks are included on the last pages. The blue star is only on the preview file. The original download file you get with purchase is simply the document without any stars on it.
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8th - 12th
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Lunar Landers: An NGSS-Aligned Engineering Challenge
Help students explore gravitational forces through this hands-on engineering challenge. Students can complete this project individually, in pairs, or in teams. We have done this project with materials in class and also as an at-home project. Both work great!The mission is to create a lunar lander that will protect the cargo onboard (an egg) and keep it crack-free. Students will put their lander through numerous trials (recording sheets included) as well as spend time reflecting and addressin
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3rd - 6th
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