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3rd grade problem solving environment projects
End of the Year Math Activities - Plan a Summer Vacation Summer Math Project
Are you looking for fun end of the year math activities? This summer math project will have your students excited about doing math. The students will plan their summer vacation using a budget sheet. They will have $2,500 to spend while on vacation with a friend. This is a great way to practice financial literacy with your kids. There is a Powerpoint attached with the flight information that is editable so you can change the flight prices and information to reflect where you live. Also includes
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3rd - 6th
Endangered Species Expert - Project Based Learning
This project is designed to help students build their research, analysis and synthesis skills while learning about an endangered species that interests them. As students become the class expert for their species, they will exercise reading, writing, grammar, science and art skills as well as build experience with long-term planning and the organization required to complete a multi-step project by a deadline.
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3rd - 4th
STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions
This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning (plus the towers are fun to build!) The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the students take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls, d
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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St. Patrick's Day Craft Activity for Kids | Celtic Knots Paper Art Project [v1]
St. Patrick's Day Activity—Celtic Knot paper art activity. This project is original and fun. You won't find anything like it because I made it up! It's been tested with my students and they just LOVED it! I hope your students will as well. At first glance, this Celtic knot activity might look complicated—which is why it's so striking when the students complete it! However, in this unit, I give you everything you need (templates and instructions) to easily teach this lesson. Your kids will have f
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3rd - 7th
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The Lion King - Food Chains & Webs, Relationships, & Biomes
**UPDATED TO INCLUDE BOTH DIGITAL (formatting updated as of 4/2024) AND PRINT VERSIONS and you can download the clips file if you don't want students to watch the entire movie** In this activity, students will be expected to watch either the entire Lion King movie or clips to complete the movie guide, which asks ecology related questions. Students will show their understanding of food chains, food webs, symbiotic relationships, and biomes as they watch a favorite movie through a science lens. Af
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3rd - 12th
NGSS:
HS-LS2-4
, HS-LS2-6
, HS-LS2-8
Economics Unit for 3rd & 4th Grade - Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, & Budgets
Do you want your students to master all the economics terms and standards in 3rd and 4th grade? Well this hands-on PBL unit to teach economics covers many different concepts through a real life project. After learning vocabulary your students will go through a project that will teach them all about economics. This is not an explicit teaching product, but a project based learning product.This Unit Covers1. Scarcity2. Opportunity Costs3. Producers and Consumers4. Budgets5. Market PlacesWhy will th
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3rd - 5th
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Biomes - Habitats - Reading Comprehension, Project, Task Cards, Posters
This no-prep resource on biomes contains posters, task cards, reading comprehension pages and activities, a write the room activity, and a research project. This unit has everything you need for your students to complete the research project on a chosen biome. BIOMES COVERED:SavannaTundraCoral ReefDesertMountainRainforestWetlandPrairieTaigaPAGES INCLUDED:Savanna - Reading passage, facts page, comprehension questions, crossword puzzle, true/falseCoral Reef - Reading passage, facts page, compreh
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
2-LS4-1
Also included in: Science Bundle
Biome Box - Ecosystem & Habitats - Project Based Learning (Diorama Project)
Students research biomes and then design their very own biome box with this easy to implement science project. Your students will be excited to learn about the various biomes and engaged will building their own hands-on model. This resource contains everything that you need to do this project with your students, stress-free! The entire project is broken down into ten phases (with pacing recommendations). There is a complete teacher guide that walks you through the project step-by-step. Lesson pl
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
5-LS2-1
Landforms Project - Landform Island and Landforms and Body of Water Research
Engage your students in learning about landforms and bodies of water by having them apply their knowledge of these landforms and bodies of water to create a project... LANDFORM ISLAND! This creative social studies project is a hands-on geography activity perfect for your learners.What is the Landforms Project:Students will work alone or in groups to research 24 different landforms and bodies of water, draft a plan for their landform island, write all about their landform island and publish a pos
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1st - 3rd
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3D Biomes Quadrama & Posters
This project is a great addition to your habitats or ecosystems unit. It includes 8 vibrantly colored biome posters in addition to the biome project pages. Detailed step-by-step assembly instructions are also provided.This resource includes eight different biomes. When assembled, each 3-D biome craft contains four biomes. The biome pictures contain enough details to show students the main features of each while leaving room to draw in additional plants and animals to demonstrate an understandi
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3rd - 5th
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Design an Efficient House - Renewable Energy Project - With Google Classroom
Now includes a Google Classroom version, perfect for distance learning!Great for Earth Day or as an end of the year project!In this problem-based learning activity, students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of renewable energy sources by designing their own EcoHouse. Students are provided with an invitation to become citizens of Energize City, which requires that they design a home with requirements related to energy efficiency, sustainability, and alternative energy. This activity w
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3rd - 8th
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Spring Grass Seed Growing Houses Craft Activity - Grow a Neighborhood
Are you looking for a cute spring seed growing activity?This Spring Grass Seed Growing Houses Activity is a cute way to grow some seeds in your classroom and make it look super cute on your counter. Grow a neighborhood!Each student will get a house to color and cut out. Laminate and add it to a small clear container with dirt and grass seed. Water and watch it grow! Soon, you will have a cute neighborhood with little front yards. Add an optional popsicle stick picket fence to the front!Laminate
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PreK - 4th
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Math Project-Based Learning: Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000 | 3rd Grade
This 5-day project-based math resource applies math concepts in a real-world scenario to teach students about concepts of addition and subtraction within 1,000. In this 5-day unit, students will apply adding and subtracting concepts to design and open a bed and breakfast. This basic computation addition and subtraction math project is engaging and authentic. Plus, it's available as both a digital and print resource.This project-based math resource covers concepts of adding and subtracting and is
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3rd
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Also included in: The Project-Based Math Library | 3rd Grade Math Project-Based Learning
I'm All Done! (120 enrichment projects for the WHOLE year)
Put your fast finishers to work, and help them enhance their problem solving, math, and language arts skills along the way! Depending on your students' abilities you may want to allow partner work, or not. You be the judge. Each monthly set is packed full of fun and engaging activities that encourage problem solving skills. Kids will be excited to get to these!
August Fast Finishers
September Fast Finishers
October Fast Finishers
November Fast Finishers
December Fast Finishers
January Fast Fini
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2nd - 3rd
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Haunted Hotel Halloween Tasks | Halloween Project & Activities
Looking for ideas for Halloween Project Based Learning??Engage your students with a variety of real-world tasks this Halloween season!! This Haunted Hotel project includes 8 math, problem solving, and writing tasks to celebrate Halloween, while sticking to the standards.*A DIGITAL VERSION IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GOOGLE SLIDES!!(A link is included on page 3 of the PDF after purchasing and downloading.)More about this resource:This project is quick and easy to prep. Simply copy the pages you need and
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3rd - 5th
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Endangered Animals Species Research Project Based Learning Science Activities
With this endangered animals resource, enhance your students' learning of what they can do to help save our endangered animals. These student-centered PBL units incorporate collaboration and differentiation by providing student choice. The real-world challenges require students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and their creative minds during the high-interest cross-curricular activities [math, social studies, science, ELA]. Students integrate digital learning into the project as they investiga
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle - Science - Earth Day, Environment
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Dinosaurs and Fossils ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer some Dinosaurs!Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like dinosaurs and fossils!This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solutions
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3rd - 6th
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Enrichment Task Cards | Curiosities BUNDLE | Gifted Independent Activities
Are you searching for independent projects that will engage and challenge your gifted or high-achieving students?This BUNDLE of Curiosities Enrichment Task Cards for Grades 3-5 is designed specifically for students who are curious thinkers, seeking enrichment opportunities beyond the curriculum. The tasks are appropriate for gifted learners, as well as high achievers who would benefit from an independent challenge.This bundle includes six enrichment resources. When purchased individually, the fu
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3rd - 5th
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Bees and Pollination Unit & Nonfiction Reader Bundle! [Science & Literacy]
This is a combined unit of the Bees and Pollination Reader - nonfictional with real photos, activities, reading response, vocabulary cards/center, task cards and a teacher's guide. All files are PDF format. Note: For a black and white version, simply print the reader in grey scale from your printer settings.
The vocabulary cards come in three types:
→ image + word + definition
→ image + word
→ definition
This opens up for a wide variety of uses, for example as a vocabulary center. The words in
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2nd - 3rd
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STEM Flight Challenges - 3 Engaging Problem-Solving Projects
Are you looking for highly engaging STEM activities? Helicopters, Airplanes, and Hoop Flyers, Oh My! These STEM Challenges are all about flight and using variables to design! These Multi-Day projects will motivate students through experimenting and designing using their data.This is a terrific money-saving bundle of three fabulous STEM Challenges! Each may be purchased separately. Each of these will take several class sessions to complete. Designing Paper AirplanesThis product specifically inclu
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3rd - 5th
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Easy Peasy Experiments to Teach Scientific Method
This packet contains seven easy (even for the scientifically challenged!)science experiments that can be used to teach the nature of science and the scientific method. The materials needed for the experiments are easy things that are you probably already have! :)
Experiments include:
Paper Play (nature of science)
Penny Spill (water properties, cohesion and surface tension)
The Incredible Egg (solutions and density)
Balancing Act (opposing forces)
Paper Magic (air properties)
Vacancy (propertie
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Grades:
K - 4th
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Animal Classification Zoo Design Research Project
Are you looking for a fun, engaging research project to assess your unit on classifying animals? Download this Animal Classification Zoo Design Research Project to give your students a hands-on educational experience that they'll never forget!This project is not just another worksheet! Students will be able to use real-life knowledge of animal classifications and get the chance to bring their learning to life by constructing a zoo map. When complete, your students' maps will showcase their under
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2nd - 5th
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Animal Research and Ecosystems Zoo Project
Animal Research and Ecosystems Zoo Project! In this 2 - 3 week project, students research an animal and its ecosystem to learn about animal adaptations, habitats, food chains, and more! Students use informative writing, persuasive writing, note-taking skills, text features, and models to share their learning.
Who is This For?
2nd - 4th grade teachers looking for an engaging project that integrates reading, writing, and science!
What is Included?
* Project Directions
* Project Planning Pack
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2nd - 4th
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3D Water Cycle Project
A Water Cycle activity that helps students to visualize the water process. This science craft project is perfect to reinforce the topics taught during your weather, climate or Earth Science units. This resource includes vocabulary posters, an introductory PowerPoint and the printable project pages. Pop-up text boxes allow students to describe each stage of the process. The PowerPoint and display posters are practical teaching aids. Detailed step-by-step assembly instructions are also provi
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3rd - 5th
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