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Preschool engineering resources for Microsoft Word
Name That Simple Machine Google Slides Lesson for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st G
This is a Google Slides lesson on Simple Machines, targeted for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade students. There are 16 slides in all and they include interactive examples of each of the simple machines and let the students decide for themselves what each example is before clicking for the answer.
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PreK - 1st
NGSS:
K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
Water Bottle Rocket - Alka Seltzer and water make recycled water bottle fly high
Build and launch a rocket that really flies using a water bottle, popsicle sticks, a wine cork, tape, crayons Alka Seltzer tablets and water. This experiment covers Engineering (building the rocket), Art (decorating the rocket) and Science (the chemical reaction between the Alka Seltzer and water).Teacher information sections include:Materials – How To – How to present it to your group – Extra Activities – The lesson – Preschool version - Vocabulary
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PreK - 5th
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Push and Pull - Forces, Motions, and Interactions
A simple assessment to identify push and pull. It asks students to identify the design(s) that will increase speed of a car as well as decrease speed of a car. Works with Next Generation Science Standards K-PS2-1 and K-PS2-2
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PreK - 1st
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Engineer Design Process (EDP) Chart
Just like the "Scientific Process", understanding the "Engineering Design Process" is an essential skill K5 students will need to use and understanding when designing technology that solves a problem.
The sheets are setup to glued into "Engineering Notebooks" or cut apart as students or (second language learners) begin to use and understanding the EDP.
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PreK - 6th
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How wheels help us with transportation
Students will be asked to carry toys from the classroom first, with their bare hands and then, with the aid of a toy grocery cart or stroller in the classroom. They will experience the impact of the wheel in daily tasks. The book, TRANSPORTATION, explains all the different functions the wheel serves society. Next, students will participate in a discussion, using a bubble chart, to volunteer the different times in our day to day lives that we rely on wheels. Finally, their is an art component to
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PreK
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
EDITABLE STEAM Choice Board
This is a STEAM activity choice board designed to get kids doing fun Science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities with their families. I use it as a school-wide Title 1 activity to get parents involved. Check out my math and reading activity boards as well!
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PreK - 5th
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STEM Wikki Stix Template Mat
These mats foster imagination and independence while still keeping students on task. Print on cardstock, laminate and add wikki stix or pipe cleaners! Students can use colors of their choosing for multiple mats.This activity is awesome for little engineers.
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PreK - 3rd
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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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Marble runs for the whole classroom
Having your marble successfully stay on the track and completing a circuit is exciting. Students are often thrilled when they combine tracks and create large runs.Marble runs are popular toys in our classroom. This experiment allows students to create their own marble runs with foam pipe insulation and masking tape. Students tape the foam tracks to the walls, the tables, chairs and even themselves. You can also break into groups to combine materials and make larger and more elaborate tracks.Teac
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PreK - 4th
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Gingerbread Man STEM Challenge
In this reading response extension, students use this recording sheet to plan their ideas for designing and engineering a way to get the Gingerbread Man safely across the river.
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PreK - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Alphabet. Transport. Set (worksheets, flashcards, posters)
You can read "My first alphabet. Transport" on Amazon* * * * * * * * * * *Perfect for kids fascinated by trucks and vehicles.It's a fun and accessible way to learn ABC.Print- poster "Transport. Alphabet"- 26 worksheets to colouring and righting- 4 posters of kind of transport and 26 flashcards - for playing* * * * * * * *Click the follow me button at the top of the page to receive new product information, sensational discounts and giveaway opportunities.
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PreK - 3rd
Parts of a Bike
This is a kindergarten worksheet that has the students cut and paste the different parts of a bike.
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PreK - 1st
Bible Story STEM - Tower of Babel
It is so enlightening to blend literature and STEM. These activities are designed to connect real-world STEM ideas with well-known Bible stories to guide students to a greater understanding of our world. This product includes a link to a video of the Bible Story. It includes a STEM Challenge, Let's Build a Tower with questions and extensions.
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PreK - 3rd
I Can Stack Blocks Social Story
A social story to help students learn how to appropriately play with blocks. This story has students stack five blocks.
Useful for students in preschool, early intervention, or kindergarten students. Can also be helpful for students with special needs who are struggling to use materials appropriately.
*Print 1 sided; the pages are not in the correct order - sorry!
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PreK - 1st
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8:25
Fruit & Vegetable engineering/building/geometry - video & printed lesson plan
If this activity had a technology component (motorized appendages?) it would encompass all the S.T.E.A.M.—science, technology, engineering, art and math criteria. Some students will cover science by constructing what look like DNA strands. We talk about engineering stronger structures by comparing the strength of triangular supports to cubes. Artists among us build beautiful structures and mathematicians make a variety of geometric shapes.Students can create elaborate structures that really hold
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PreK - 4th
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EDITABLE Set of 4 Sorts Matter Basic Properties Engineering Computer Science
EDITABLESet of 4 Sorts/Matching Activities about Matter Basic Properties Activity including: color, weight, size, textureAligns perfectly with SOL K.3 in Virginia. Sorting develops Computational Thinking skills specifically decomposition and is a perfect activity for Engineering Practices.It includes an answer key and great pictures! Would work well independently, group work, or with partners. You could use it in a foldable, diorama, or interactive notebook!Computer Science-Algorithms and Pr
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PreK - 3rd
10:18
Paper Gliders - engineering, craft & aerodynamics - video & printed lesson plan
If you like to construct beautiful things and then fly them, this project is for you. Your students will create giant durable paper airplanes, make them beautiful and enjoy learning and playing with the aerodynamics of flying. This is engineering, building, art and physics in one tremendously fun indoor/outdoor project.PreK through 4th gradeThis fun video models the lesson, describes the project, the S.T.E.A.M. behind it and materials needed. It is suitable for showing to your class.The printed
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PreK - 4th
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Parshat Bechukotai-The Blessing of Rain LP 1- Science, Technology & Engineering
Learning the Parsha through interactive, hands-on, cross-curricular;Social, Practical Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Traditions & Customs, Music, Dance, Architecture, History, Geography, Literature, Reading, Writing, Language Arts, Math, Science, Crafts, Art, Edible Art, Recipes, Games, etc. projects,How the themes of the Parsha resound and can assist us in our everyday lives.RainHistory / Story: Choni HamaagelScience & Montessori: The Water CycleVideos: Science Experiments:Movie:The Boy
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Fruit and Vegetable Engineering/Building
If this activity had a technology component (motorized appendages?) it would encompass all the S.T.E.A.M.—science, technology, engineering, art and math criteria. Some students will cover science by constructing what look like DNA strands. We talk about engineering stronger structures by comparing the strength of triangular supports to cubes. Artists among us build beautiful structures and mathematicians make a variety of geometric shapes.Students can create elaborate structures that really hold
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PreK - 4th
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Inclined Planes Tic Tac Toe Choice Board Simple Machines Preschool Study
During distance learning or to connect families when the world isn't crazy, giving a choice board that is concretely connected to lived experiences and supplements classroom instruction is ideal. Makes connections to younger/older siblings, diverse experiential learning, and integrates some Spanish language resources when possible. All links are clickable, I recommend saving as a pdf before sending it to families. Most photos are clickable on the choice board or are free online photos, source un
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PreK - 1st
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
STEAM Project: Affordable 3-D Printed Housing _Part 1
Use this STEM/STEAM project to have students create a prototype of an affordable 3-D printed house.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Materials Flashcards
To go with a unit about properties of different materials, I used these flashcards to play different games and sort/categorize what objects are made out of which materials and why.
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PreK - 3rd
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Printable Elementary Engineering Notebook
This Engineering Notebook is perfect for elementary students. The notebook contains the ISTE Standards to monitor student progress, a place for earned badges (print stickers or stamp them!). The notebook also has 4 Engineering Plan Pages for students to draw and write about their designs for challenges or tasks, graph paper, and blank paper. The file comes as a Word Document so you can add or edit as you see fit!Printable STEM Badges Coming soon!
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Grades:
PreK - 6th
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