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Preschool engineering thematic unit plans
Fairy Tale and Nursery Rhyme STEM Activities
Students will be delighted and challenged to complete these 8 different Fairy Tale and Nursery Rhyme themed STEM activities! These are perfect for students to work on whole group, in a small group, or even as a fun and engaging move on activity! This pack includes STEAM activities from:♦ The Three Pigs - House Building Challenge♦ The Three Pigs - Huff and Puff Challenge ♦ The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Bridge Building Challenge ♦ Little Miss Muffet - Spider Web Building Challenge♦ Jack Be Nimbl
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PreK - 1st
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Farm Themed Unit - Farm Activities Bundle for Preschool and Pre-K
This preschool farm unit includes lessons and activities to teach your pre-k students all about farms and farm animals. In this unit your students will learn about farms through centers, STEM, a read aloud, circle time, and visiting an exploration station.These ready-to-use farm resources provide themed content for a week of learning. This farm-themed unit comes complete with everything you need to teach young learners about farms. The whole-group Circle Time farm lessons include songs, poems, g
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PreK - K
Winter STEM: Reusable Ice Cube Stacking & Patterns
Winter STEM: Reusable Ice Cube Stacking & PatternsEnhance your winter curriculum with this versatile resource! Perfect for exploring topics like igloos, Arctic animals, or winter, these engaging science and math task cards are designed to captivate your students during center time. Unlock the potential of learning through play as students dive into the exciting world of STEM challenges. The pattern cards serve as a fantastic introduction to patterns, sparking creativity as students embark on
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PreK - 2nd
TRANSPORTATION! Let's Move!! Complete Theme / No Prep Unit on Things that Go!
Transportation Unit. Transportation Theme. Transportation Activities & Printables for Pre-K / Preschool, Kindergarten. 100 % NO PREP. Everything you need to teach about things that go and how we move! Includes lessons, activities, centers and STEM Challenges across the curriculum. Teach art, music, drama, reading, writing, fine motor skills, math and science with this complete pack. Ready to go! EXCELLENT VALUE!Product includes:Lesson on How People MoveClass Graph (Differentiated) How We Get
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in:Â TRANSPORTATION UNIT. 5 Products in this Printable and Digital Bundle.
STEAM Preschool Curriculum 12 weeks Lesson Plans Reggio Montessori
This Preschool Curriculum Bundle give you structured daily lesson plans which integrate Reggio Emilia, Montessori, and S.T.E.A.M. approaches to create an enriching learning experience tailored to the unique needs of your child. Your students will cook, create, experiment, think and develop all WITHOUT worksheets.S.T.E.A.M. Exploration: Prepare your child for the future by immersing them in the world of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.). These hands-on S.
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PreK - K
3 Little Pigs - Engineering Design Project - FULL UNIT
In this unit, you will teach your students the steps of the design process using the 3 Little Pigs. The challenge: Can you build a house that the Big Bad Wolf can't blow down? The students will use recycled materials to build their house and the wolf is a fan. Watch as your students learn and exhibit 21st century learning skills and the 4 Cs: Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity!Click here to see a video slideshow of my students during this unit! It's so fun!This .zip files c
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PreK - 2nd
STEM Unit: Jack and his Beanstalk Problems
A Jack and the Beanstalk unit - STEM style!In this mini-unit, you get 7 activities all related to Jack and his bean problems.Students will spend time: * growing beanstalks * recording observations with pictures or photographs in a bean journals * measuring Jack's distance off the ground as he climbs a beanstalk * working through a STEM Engineering Challenge - Golden Egg Protectors * playing Beanstalk Battles - a tally mark game for partners * using technology to explore Jack - links included * l
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in:Â ENDLESS STEM Bundle (A Growing Resource)
Fairy Tale STEM GROWING BUNDLE
Why not build all the components of a fairy tale in real life?
There are five fairy tales covered, each one featuring:
-Directions page
-Play mat
-Materials list
-Anchor charts
-Response pages
-Puppets
-QR Codes
Read the fairy tale with your students and then explore STEM concepts and construct meaning with the help of this guide.
This is currently a growing bundle, there are three fairy tales covered to date. Two more to be added in August, and then more as you request!
You may also be
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PreK - 1st
STEM Apple Unit
STEM apple unit to introduce young students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math!
Includes:
Student Investigation journal cover
Math - patterns, graphing, sorting, counting to 10
Writing - Circle mapping, sequencing, are/can/have diagram, labeling, and descriptive writing
Science investigations - Seeds, Sink/Float and Apple Browning
Engineering - student planning page for designing an apple model
Rubric for engineering project.
Apple Tasting Recording Sheet
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PreK - 2nd
STEAM: Sound of Science
This lesson/ unit could be completed in 30 minutes, or as much as an hour every day for a month. This product includes the step by step directions for the teacher, directions for students, driving question, claim, three teacher led examples with discussion opportunities, six different musical instruments that students can create to learn about the science of sound, sentence frames, vocabulary, discussion questions to wrap up the lesson/ unit, and two activities for students to explore when they
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PreK - 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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Kindergarten STEAM/STEM Forces and Motion Unit
NGSS aligned Forces and Motion STEAM/STEM unit for kindergarten. This unit contains 4 lessons that will engage your students in a hands-on, play-based learning approach to teaching science. Included you will find 4 lesson plans with step-by-step instructions, 4 presentations (2-4 slides in each) to introduce each lesson, and any necessary handouts (though there won't be many of these since we are playing after all!). Created for a makerspace setting where each class comes once a week for 30-4
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PreK - K
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
Community Helpers Math and Literacy Unit
Includes puzzles, block building challenges, Community Helper writing and tracing activities, coloring pages, measuring with unifix cubes, community helper art, and a community helper flip book. This unit will perfectly accompany your community helper unit! This unit has everything you need for your PreK-1 students.
Please check the preview to get a glimpse of what is included.
You will get:
Community Helper Flip book
Design your own store printable
Design your own restaurant printable
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PreK - 1st
STEM building the Mayflower
This is a fun engineering STEM project. Students will build their boat out of foil and see how well it floats. They will count the objects or "people" it will hold. Video links and worksheets are also included. Everything you need to complete the lesson (except materials)
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PreK - 1st
STEM Pumpkin Unit
Introduce your students to STEM by linking Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and of course Language Arts into a great themed Unit. Great for this fall!
Included:
Student investigation cover
Pretest
Circle chart
Words about pumpkins…
Are-have graphic organizer
Life Cycle Sequencing
Life Cycle Word chart
Living/Non living – Text with Main Idea and supporting details triangle chart
Pumpkin Needs
Our Pumpkin Patch Descriptive Writing
Pumpkin Dissection
Technology Ideas
Pumpkins – fact and opi
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PreK - 1st
STEM Botany/Plant Unit
An all inclusive Kindergarten STEM Botany Unit using Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core.
Includes:
Measurement
Informative Writing
Engineering - shade structure and garden
Science - plant needs, life cycle and water transfer
Technology project ideas
student samples of my class in action
...and much more!
Hope your kiddos have as much fun as mine did with this unit!
Please provide any feedback! Suggestions, comments, compliments are welcome!
Thanks!
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PreK - 2nd
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
How to Catch a Dragon STEM (Digital + Printable)
This is a companion to How to Catch a Dragon. Students will build a trap to catch a dragon. There are several other literature extension ideas and different books that I use for the week we focus on Chinese New Year. There is also a digital version to share with remote learning students!
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PreK - 1st
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
Distance Learning: FULL day STEM unit: Rollercoasters. Years K-3
Full day plan for relief teachers to print and go! Be the teacher that the kids LOVE to learn with! Unit includes: reading and writing to learn about rollercoasters, designing, constructing, testing, evaluation of student made rollercoaster and art/craft. Minimal resources needed for an interactive hands on day: tape, ping pong balls & paper pates.My unit has worksheets included or the options of PHOTOCOPY FREE to avoid the dreaded morning line up.
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PreK - 3rd, Staff
Inventor Bundle - Earle Dickson Unit and Inventor Challenge Cards, Science
This is a bundle of my Inventor Explorer Resources including my Unit study on Earle Dickson and the Inventor Explorer Challenge Cards set. This is great for an Inventor, Engineering, or Science unit. Can be used with Prek, Kindergarten, First, Second or Third Grader. Includes: a suggested scheduleshort biography of about Earle DicksonVocabulary wordsVocabulary definitionsBandaid Art Printable and instructionsSteps to an invention poster and cardsSteps to an Invention WorksheetI can be an Invento
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PreK - 3rd
Winter I Can Build STEM book
This is a great STEM book to have in your block area. Using real pictures of snow structures, students can attempt to build their own that can be added to the book. I use the same cover for my "I can build book" and I add photos based off of each study I do.
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PreK
"Bloom Where You Are Planted" STEM and 5E-Model Plant Life Cycle Unit and Lesson
This resource was a labor of love, focusing on first grade (but with the ability to be modified for other grades) and the life cycle of plants during a Life Science curriculum. Each of the 5-E's (engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate) are present and have numerous activities differentiated with family involvement as well. There are children's books as resources, a glossary of key vocabulary and additional resources for further education. There is also a full lesson plan, complete with
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PreK - 2nd
Construction Lesson Plans
Over 50 pages of new, creative and enriched ideas for preschool, kindergarten, daycares and home schools.Circle time: Songs and poems and group activities about constructionCrafts: Creative crafts for the children to makeMath ideas: Counting, estimating and additionNumber identification and valuesOne page of French number identification (words and numbers from 1 to 10)One page of Spanish number identification (words and numbers from 1 to 10)Memory Game: using Construction symbolsScience: Creativ
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PreK - K
STEM Lessons Sound Light Wonder Project all grades inquiry scripted science
8 Project-based STEM lessons, adapted for K-6Units Included: Sound and Light and Wonder Project (Based on Curiosity and Research)Mid-Semester "Wonder Project" embedded into lessons, which include students choice, inquiry, research, and presentationsLessons include: 7 lessons and 1 presentationScience, Technology, Engineering, Math and Sometimes ArtEngaging OpeningList of materials neededStep by step teacher directionsLinks for all videos needed*Some lessons include Brainpop Video or Reading A-Z
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PreK - 6th
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