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Free preschool engineering projects
Forensics Fun: Science Activity with Fingerprints & Thermal Energy
This product includes 2 activities related to forensics including revealing a student’s heat signature and unique fingerprint. This is a great STEM Family Night station! Activity 1: A worksheet that guides two students to compare their unique fingerprints with a real-world connection to forensics. A QR code reveals a STEM career video on forensic science and crime scenes. *Worksheet in both English and Spanish*Activity 2: This activity requires a thermal camera for students to explore the infrar
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Balloons Over Broadway - STEM activity
Want a fun, easy, engaging STEM related activity to get the students ready for Thanksgiving? After reading the suggested book, Balloons Over Broadway By Melissa Sweet, have your students use the engineering design process to create a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Float. Your students are sure to have fun using their imaginations to make their balloons look amazing!You can even have them make their own Parade with their balloons!!Have fun and let me know how it goes!
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PreK - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
STEM Design Challenge - My Most Magnificent Thing
Kids love to invent! This is a science and math (STEM) based design challenge, tied to literature, The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires, that gives students a chance to create their own invention...anything goes. Included is a recording form for students to record ideas, list materials needed, and then reflect on the outcome. Also included is a sign that can be used to display the finished inventions (or pictures of them).
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PreK - 2nd
Stop Motion Animation Activity
Combine storytelling with STEM! Students choose from three STEM scenarios to create a stop motion animation video. Instructions are provided on how to use a free Chromebook extension to setup a stop motion activity. The same activities can be completed with iPads or Kindles with a stop motion app. Materials required are Chromebooks, trifold boards for a backdrop, and action figures or other movie props. Stikbots are the perfect action figure to use!Click here for an editable STEM journal to use
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Basics of Makey Makey: STEM Activity
If you haven't already discovered Makey Makey, stop everything and watch this video! These little circuit boards bring together coding, invention, creativity, and electronics. Just plug into any computer, and with no software download required, watch as your students turn conductive items (PlayDoh, oranges, pencil lead) into a controller that replaces a keyboard or mouse! We love using these with from elementary all the way to high school! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with dist
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Paper Circuits STEM Activity
Paper circuits are a fun way to teach circuits and conductivity. Students use the easy-to-follow diagrams to create their own card that will light up! Instructions are in both English and Spanish. Materials needed: paper, copper tape, LED lights, coin batteries, and clear tape. Students can also use markers or crayons to decorate the card. Included are instructions for using paper circuits as a classroom project or part of a STEM Family Night.Looking for more STEM lessons? Our team of engineers
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: STEM Family Night Planning Guide, Activity Instructions
Puppy Leash PreK STEM Activity - Preschool Science Lesson - Back to School
This Puppy Leash STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This Puppy Leash STEM activity helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Using a single piece of paper, create a leash for Pogo.Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any materials you have on ha
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Pets Activities Bundle for Preschool-Centers, Read Aloud, STEM and more!
Gummy Bear STEM Challenge
STEM has become an important part of the classroom and there's no reason why young learners can't take part in the fun!
This Gummy Bear STEM Challenge has children listening to the classic fairy tale, The Gingerbread Boy. Then they listen to a slight adaptation of the fairy tale, called The Gummy Bear Boy, included in the pack The Gummy Bear Boy has a problem! He needs to get away from the little boy who created him and wants to eat him, but he comes across a river that he cannot cross witho
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PreK - 3rd
3 Billy Goats Gruff STEAM project
The grumpy old troll won’t let the 3 Billy Goats Gruff cross his bridge. Help the Billy Goats avoid the troll and cross the stream by building a raft using straws and pipe cleaners.Supplies needed:pipe cleanersstrawscontainer to fill with water to test if they float
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PreK - 2nd
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All About Me STEM Project
This is a STEM project that will engage the whole family! Your student will build their name out of materials they have at home that represent them. The challenge to this is their name has to be as long AS THEY ARE TALL! Great opportunity for at home learning and communication skills as well as integrating STEM into the project!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Stem with Peeps
Everyone LOVES Peeps! Why not have some fun experimenting with Peeps? This file contains 4 hands-on stem activities to get your students thinking!
-Can you Sink a Peep?
-Can you Dissolve a Peep?
-Can you Build a Peep Tower?
-Can you build a Peep Boat?
-Stem Planning Pages
-Compare/Contrast 2 Projects
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PreK - 5th
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Train Track Tricks {a STEM activity for kids who love trains}
Do you know a student who loves trains? This STEM activity will have students using train tracks in new and creative ways and is a perfect companion to the book Old Tracks New Tricks by Jessica Peterson.
This product includes:
• a simple, half page booklet with pages to make a plan, test your plan and make changes to your plan
• full page options to give younger students a larger drawing space
Have fun with your train tracks and see what you can build, plus use valuable problem solving and
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PreK - 1st
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Just Add Water! - Outdoor STEM-STEAM Project - School and Remote Learning
This hands-on water, 3-Dimensional Learning project, is really an Engineering and Science journey. It has all you need to get your kids outside, engaged in a real-world, student-driven, place-based, STEAM/STEM project at school or home. It can last a few weeks or span an entire year, even serving as the base for a complete interdisciplinary curriculum, covering all your standards. You may use any or all of my other Nature STEAM lessons to enrich their learning as they go. The kids lead it, make
Design a Toy Brainstorming and Planning Sheets
This product was created as an extension for the Mystery Science mini lesson "How are toys invented?" and can be used as a STEM project of building their own toy prototype.
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PreK - 4th
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STEAM Challenge- February: Celebrate Black Innovators
Engage your students in STEAM and maker project to stretch and grow student creativity! Learn more about the amazing contributions of Black scientists, engineers, and makers to celebrate Black History Month. Suggested tools for students include Tinkercad, Maker's Empire, Google Drawings, or cardboard and household supplies!This challenge was originally designed to be optionally completed at home as part of our STEAM and Library program. However, it has also been used as alternative homework assi
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PreK - 8th
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Design Thinking Process Rubric
Use this general design thinking rubric to grade any student project! This rubric uses first person language to help your students to self reflect as they complete their projects. Compatible with any project following a design process including Design Thinking and the Engineering Process. For an editable access to customize for your school or classroom standards, a Google Docs version with working check boxes, and suggested standards alignment, check out my Editable Design Thinking Process Rubri
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PreK - 8th
STEAM CHALLENGES - Architecture
This 5 day architecture and STEAM focused resource includes:- Lesson outline + optional extensions- Focus questions to promote brainstorming- Daily building or drawing opportunities in individual and group settingsAdditionally:- 3 read alouds- Kid-centered architecture video- Real life pictures of interesting architecture
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PreK - 2nd
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How to Catch a Turkey
This PowerPoint shows a rule list, materials list, and provides turkeys to be cut out for students to use in their traps. This is editable.
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PreK - 1st
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Project-Based Learning Activities - Energy & Technology
These Project-Based Learning Activities are designed as starting points for educators. Students will use inquiry to explore a topic related to the Flint Hills eco-region. These activities can be adapted to various grade levels and can serve as single lessons or developed into larger projects. Educators are permitted to copy, distribute, modify, and use these activities for non-commercial purposes only. Part of the Flint Hills Learning Center, a project of the Flint Hills Discovery Center, made p
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Alphabet STEM (ABC STEM Freebie: Letter A)
This is a new product that I am currently working on! I wanted to go ahead and make letter A available for download. Please upload, use, and let me know what you did and did not like. I will have every letter of the alphabet available by the beginning of August!
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PreK - 1st
STEM/STEAM Design Flow Chart Buttons
Includes 5 buttons and arrows
Great for a maker space!
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PreK - 6th
Build Your Community
Use this sheet to help plan a building for the community.
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PreK - 1st
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Interactive Activities Guide: Preview
Hands-on activities for the month. Deeply engaging and kid-tested experiments designed for small groups of multi-ability children. Needed file https://thatsciencefairy.com/print-support-files/EBook format elevates technology as a tool, including linked glossary and further research. S, T, E, and M projects: Corn, Electricity, Holes, and Money.
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PreK - 1st
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Structures Science Unit Response Packet
Do you do an engineering or building structures unit with your class? If you do or if you want to try it, this is a packet that is an easy way for students to document their learning in the unit!
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PreK - 3rd
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