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Engineering Common Core W.4.8 resources
Paper Airplane STEM Activity | Google Classroom
Paper Airplane STEM Challenges is a packet of experiments your students will love! Flying and creating paper airplanes is a fun activity that will engage your students as they collect data and use measurement skills. Includes Google Slides for remote learners. A great literature connection is added as students research the history of airplanes and the Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, and Bessie Coleman. These activities can also be used for STEAM Activities, STEM Fun Fridays, Maker Spaces, Tin
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Back to School STEM Activities Intro Booklet What is STEAM First Day of School
Are you looking for a way to introduce STEM to your class? This STEM introduction booklet is the perfect resource! Discuss the importance of science, technology, engineering, art, math, and the design process. The booklet is available in both English and Spanish, and it can be used in Google Slides or as a printable PDF.This booklet is a great way to start an open discussion with your students about STEM. It can help them to understand the different components of STEM and how they all work toget
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Famous African American Inventors Research Project: Black History Month Activity
Explore the lives of 27 famous African American inventors and their inventions. Four scaffolded research sheets control the depth of your project. Themed templates with photos make a great display or bulletin board. You can use the activities during Black History Month or anytime.Open the preview to take a closer look.This activity is scalable. If you're short on time, you can use less pages. Would you like a full-blown research project? Use them all. (Or you can do something more in the middle.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Diverse Inventors Research Project and Display Bundle
Introduction to 3D Printing – STEAM PROJECT – GRADES 3-6 - Distance Learning
Have you purcahsed or are considering purchasing a 3D printer and don’t know where to start? This resource is perfect for classrooms just starting out in the world of 3D imaging and provides you with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of 3D printing. This STEAM project is broken up into two parts: BUILDING BACKGROUNDYour kiddos will begin by doing a research project of the history, current uses, benefits, and future innovcations of 3D printing. Graphic organizers are provided to assi
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Veterans Day Poppy Activities with Reading Passages and Thank You Cards
Math and science feelin' like a drag? Not Anymore! We've been there – kids yawning, staring into space while you put in all the effort to teach your students about the importance of Veterans Day. But what if you could make it hands-on? We're not just talking learning; we're talking an experience.This Veterans Day Poppy Activities with Reading Passages and Thank You Cards is how we get those disconnected students connected. If they end up secretly loving social studies, well, mission accomplished
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
Build a Shelter STEM Project | STEM Survival Camp
You are sent off into the wild with limited supplies. You have to stay quite a few days, but need a safe place to sleep. How can you build a shelter that will withstand different types of weather? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore different weather patterns, shelter building tips, building a design and testing it under various conditions. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration while using the Engineering Design Process. Click here to re
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Weathering and Erosion Science Experiments | Water Erosion Solutions STEM
Erosion happens naturally in our world by wind, ice, water and more. How can you create a solution that helps reduce the impact of water erosion? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore the difference between weathering and erosion, water erosion invention inspiration, building a design and testing it using soil and water. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration.==========================================STEM Challenges are a great way to enco
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 2-ESS2-1
Also included in: STEM Challenges for 2nd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
STEAM Activities and Challenges Bundle
Go full STEAM ahead with this year-long bundle! Foster the five c's in your classroom. This includes creativity, collaboration, communication, citizenship, and critical thinking. Your students will love learning about relevant content. This STEM bundle (or STEAM bundle) is helpful for STEM/STEAM Fridays or STEM/STEAM Clubs. These Elementary STEM challenges align with the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). You'll have more than enough to do one STEM Activity per week. Most Challenges Inclu
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Cardboard Game Ideas | Not a Box Lesson Plan
A box isn’t just a box. After reading the story Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, students will be inspired with cardboard game ideas and create a marble maze. By going through the Engineering Design Process, students will explore different types of forces, changes in direction and speed, create thoughtful game rules, receive feedback and modify their design. _______________________________Even as a K-5 STEM teacher, I still value the importance of reading and comprehension. With my STEM & Sto
Grades:
1st - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Caine's Arcade Unit Plan (PBL and Design Thinking combined)
This is an epic unit created around the inspiring story of Caine and the cardboard arcade phenomenon he created that swept the country. This unit will get your kids thinking, creating, and building with household materials and nothing more! Everything and I mean everything is included in this unit to have your students create their own arcade games based around empathy and the design needs of others. In our case, it was 2nd graders. You can adjust for any grade level! Twelve different lessons wi
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
All the Library Centers BUNDLE + Center Menus / Trackers & Learning Badges
Jump-start your library centers with this GIGANTIC bundle of ALL the library centers created by Mrs. J in the Library, including both printable & digital library centers. Plus, you get FREE updates for life!Please view the individual product previews for full details about each product's contents.Both the digital Library Centers Menu / Tracker and printable Library Centers Tracking Booklets and Learning Badges are included to help you manage your centers and hold students accountable for th
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 4-PS3-3
, 2-PS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM: Plants and Food Waste
In this HUGE project based learning unit, you will receive lessons on composting, plants, gardening, food waste, pollution, and community service. The first unit is on the effects of food waste, the largest contributor to our landfills, then your students will grow their own garden using food scraps for the second unit. If you'd like to see these activities in action, check us out on Instagram @thebrainybee. With this bundle you will receive the following activities and more!
Unit Plans
Links
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Lunar New Year 2024 | Chinese New Year 2024
Your students are going to love these STEM activities and challenges! You'll start by sparking curiosity with a great book. Then, you'll feed their interest with 12 FUN chopstick challenges. Materials are easy and challenges are FUN! Here's what you'll get: objectives/standards5E lesson planextra resourcesKWHL chartChinese New Year reading passage with comprehension questionsanswer keyoptional bookletteacher background infoSTEM planning sheet12 chopstick challengesstudent scorecardsreflection sh
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEAM Activities and Challenges Bundle
Human Impact on the Environment | 3D Printing STEM Project
How are humans impacting the Earth and its natural resources? While many of Earth’s events happen naturally, many problems are man-made. How can you design an invention that helps people correct, prevent or protect Earth's resources and environment? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about common problems humans are causing to the environment and some solutions that already exist. With this information, you’ll create a 3D printed model of an invention that will help
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Wild Animals Activity | Protect the Food | STEM Survival Camp
You are sent off into the wild with limited supplies. You have to stay quite a few days and need to keep your food safe so that weather and animals can’t get to it. How can you create an invention that will keep your food safe while camping? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore current inventions for storing food, wild animal characteristics that impact invention design, plan, create and modify your invention prototype. This is one of 6 units I taught in my K-5 STEM cl
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Camping Theme Lesson Plans | Bundle | STEM Survival Camp
STEM Journal for ANY Challenge EDITABLE
Use your unique ideas and save time with editable STEM journal and interactive notebook pieces. You can do almost any STEM challenge with these editable pieces. Editing is a breeze. You simply type instructions to prefill every template! This resource includes: Teacher Editing Page (this page prefills every single template)One Pagers*1/2 Pagers*Tabs*Flaps*Trifold*Vertical Flipbook*Horizontal Flipbook*Instructions and pictures for each template*Each template comes with a STEM or STEAM theme.This
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Severe Weather Activities | Floods and Flooding Inventions STEM Challenge
Flooding can be an effect from severe weather like hurricanes, heavy rain and tsunamis. How can you create an invention that can prevent flooding? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore different floods that have impacted history, flood invention inspiration, building a design and testing it under flood conditions. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration.==========================================STEM Stations are a great way to encourage cre
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
STEM Magnet Activities MagLev Trains Makerspace Challenge
How can you show magnetic forces in action and use it make transportation even faster? MagLev, or Magnetic Levitation trains use this type of technology to move. How can you design a MagLev train that travels in a theme park? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about magnets and their forces, MagLev trains along with theme park inspiration. With this information, you’ll plan, build, modify and test a MagLev train and a theme park for it to travel through.STEM Challen
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
Weather for 3rd Graders STEM Project | Green Screen Video
How does the weather and climate change in different locations in the world? Understanding this information helps inform people when and where they might want to travel to a place. How can you create a short video to inform others about the weather and climate from a location in the world? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about one location in the world and its weather and climate for each season and what people like to do for fun in this place. With this informat
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
Build a City STEM Challenge | Reading a Map Worksheets
Civil Engineers use GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to help them collect data about the Earth’s surface to make decisions when designing structures in a space. How can you plan and develop a community based on Earth’s features in an area? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore the role of civil engineers, what GIS is, and various digital maps, including Google Earth, of famous locations in the world. You will then build a city out of clay on a grid based on data, th
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS2-2
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Roller Coaster STEM Potential and Kinetic Energy Roller Coaster
How can you show gravity, potential and kinetic energy in action? Roller coasters use these concepts to create thrilling experiences for the people riding the ride! How can you design a roller coaster that a marble can go through? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about gravity, potential and kinetic energy along with roller coaster inspiration. With this information, you’ll plan, build, modify and test a roller coaster design.======================================
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Rube Goldberg Lesson | Ecosystems | STEM Challenge
In every ecosystem, there is the movement of matter between plants, animals, decomposers and the environment. How can you create a Rube Goldberg machine to show this movement? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore different ecosystems and food webs, Rube Goldberg Machine inspiration, building a design and testing it to show the transfer of energy from one living thing to the next. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration.=====================
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-LS2-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Diverse Inventors Research Project and Display Bundle
Explore the lives of 79 diverse inventors and their inventions. Four scaffolded research sheets control the depth of your project. Themed templates with photos make a great display or bulletin board. Open the preview to take a closer look at the bundle.This activity is scalable. If you're short on time, you can use less pages. Would you like a full-blown research project? Use them all. (Or you can do something more in the middle.)For the simplest activity, assign only the first page (basic infor
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
Circuit Lesson Plans | 3D Printing STEM Project
What kind of device can you create that will convert energy from one form to another? A simple paper circuit can show how energy is transferred from the battery, through the light, and back to the battery. With this concept in mind, How can you design a night light that includes a custom design, a light and an on/off switch? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll learn about the invention of light and circuits and explore night light designs. With this information, you’ll creat
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
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