Back to School What is STEM Unit Engineers STEM First Day Activities Digital
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It's back to school, and you need a first day of STEM activity?! Or are you a STEM or K-6 elementary teacher looking to introduce Engineer or STEM to your students? This ' What is STEM ' resource is the perfect resource to teach inventions, innovations, the engineering design process, and how STEM professionals interact with one another to solve problems in the real world. This DIGITAL and Printable resource can be used year after year.
What's included in this resource:
- Printable version with 23 pages
- video for student directions in Google Slides digital resource
- video to help students upload images from the web
- 23 pages in a Google Slides unit
Objectives for Students:
- What is STEM?
- Stem Professionals
- What are wants and needs?
- What are inventions and innovations?
5 Day Lesson Break Down
Lesson 1: What is STEM?
• Acquiring Prior Knowledge and Feelings about STEM
• KWL
• What is STEM Compare and Contrast Images
• STEM acronym page
Lesson 2: STEM Professionals
• STEM Professionals Introduction
• Introducing Engineers Video
• Engineers Reading Comprehension
Lesson 3: Wants and Needs
• Wants and Needs Reading Comprehension
• Wants and Needs Sort
• Wants and Needs Make a Claim and Support it
• Finding Elevation on a Map
Lesson 4: Inventions and Innovations
• Inventions and Innovations WebQuest
• Inventions and Innovations Sort
• Transportation Inventions and Innovations Reading Comprehension
Lesson 5: Summarizing Your Learning
• 3-2-1 Summary Activity
• Questions for Final Project
• Tutorials for Project Types
• Rubric
When can you use this activity?
- Distance learning
- science center
- homework
- early finisher work
- substitute lessons or sub work
Looking for more 4th Grade NGSS Science Units?
- Complete Curriculum for the Year
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