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Preschool engineering projects under $5
November PreK STEM Activity - Turkey Preschool STEM lesson - Thanksgiving
This Turkey STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This November STEM lesson about turkeys helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Use materials to build a sturdy enclosure that traps Tom Turkey who is trying to run away from Thanksgiving dinner. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations t
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PreK - K
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Color Mixing STEM: Engineering and Art Activities
Introduce students to color mixing, color theory, and the engineering design process. Includes 2 hands-on activities! First, students predict the results of mixing two colors, then create color spinners to visually "mix" the colors without the mess of paints. Next, students are lead through the engineering design process to create a holder for their color spinners. Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.This activity also i
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PreK - 4th
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Hibernation PreK STEM activity - Winter Preschool STEM lesson - Engineering
This Hibernation STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This winter STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Build a den for a bear, which has an opening big enough to get in and out and will last during a storm.Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can
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PreK - K
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At-Home STEM Activity Calendar: 6 Weeks of Daily Activities (Plus Spanish!)
Use this editable STEM activity calendar for 6 weeks of daily activities for at-home distance learning! Now includes a Spanish version of the activity chart! A PreK-12 daily enrichment STEM activity calendar with science, engineering, and math challenges! Activities are straightforward and accessible to students of all levels with little or no supplies needed. Get them up, outside, and exploring the world! Students will build a bird feeder, code an app, make a bee hotel, cook with fractions, and
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Gingerbread Man PreK STEM activity - December Preschool STEM lesson
This Gingerbread Man STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This December STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Use materials to build a bridge to help the gingerbread man cross the river. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any mat
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PreK - K
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STEAM: Soccer Ball Collaborative Project
Get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with this fun hands-on collaborative project. Typically done during a Family Math Night event, this project can also be done in the classroom. The best part is, each person is individually represented in the final product!Participants will learn how a soccer ball design is based on a truncated icosahedron through an introduction to 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional geometry. They will create one of the panels
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PreK - 12th
Paper Tube Upcycle STEM STEAM Challenge, Earth Day Craft Recycling Project
With this STEM STEAM art challenge, children are encouraged to think outside the “paper tube,” and craft something new. Use at your classroom makerspace or as a family homework project for Earth Day while learning about trash and recycling during a unit for preschool, kindergarten, first grade or second grade. Children will learn that upcycling and repurposing an object, is not only fun and useful, but a really great thing to do for our environment. This STEM STEAM challenge series was designed
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PreK - 2nd
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K-ESS3-3
Also included in: Earth Day Activity Bundle for Kindergarten, First, or Second Grade
Build a Gingerbread House Template Kindergarten First Grade Bulletin Board Math
Children absolutely love to build their very own gingerbread house! This kit is so fun to use after reading The Gingerbread Man. The templates complete in both color and black and white versions, which makes it perfect for math centers, crafts, bulletin board displays, math lessons and so much more! Students are practicing so many skills including following multi-step directions, patterns, shapes, spatial reasoning, numbers, and counting.--- THIS KIT INCLUDES: ---Please see the product preview
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PreK - 1st
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Bunny PreK STEM activity - April Science Preschool STEM - Spring Easter lesson
This Bunny STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This Easter STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Build a way to keep the bunny out of the vegetable garden. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any materials you have on hand- such
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PreK - K
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Easter S.T.E.M. Project : Bunny Basket Blues!
This Easter/ Bunny Themed S.T.E.M. (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) lesson is great for kiddos in kindergarten to 2nd grade!
Poor Buddy the Bunny lost his basket, but has so many eggs to deliver to friends.
Using paper and tape only, help Buddy by DESIGNING, BUILDING, TESTING, EVALUATING, PHOTOGRAPHING, and REDESIGNING a basket.
The kiddos will hold their basket by the handle and test the basket's strength to see how many eggs it can hold!
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PreK - 2nd
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Kite PreK STEM Activity - March Fly a Kite Preschool - STEM Lesson - Spring
This Kite STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This build a kite lesson for March or spring helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Design a kite that can fly in the wind. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any materials you have on hand- such
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PreK - K
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Also included in: March PreK STEM Activities - Preschool March STEM Bundle - Engineering
Bird Feeder PreK STEM Activity - Bird Feeder Preschool STEM Science Lesson
This Bird Feeder STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This May STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Build a feeder that will safely feed birds. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any materials you have on hand- such as pipe clea
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PreK - K
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Also included in: May PreK STEM Activities - Preschool End of Year Summer STEM Bundle
Zoo STEM Activity for Preschool, Pre-K - Zoo Animal Stem Challenge PreK
This preschool Zoo STEM activity is designed to help your PreK students learn more about how the world works. This Zoo STEM Build a home for your zoo animal lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Challenge: Present the STEM activity- Use the materials to build a home for a zoo animal that is enclosed.Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any materials you have on hand
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Zoo Activities Bundle for Preschool - Zoo animals for Pre-K
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes | Little Bo Peep STEM Activity
STEM and Mother Goose: Keep Bo Peep's Sheep Complete!Nursery Rhymes and STEM!No time for an in depth engineering lesson? Our Nursery Rhyme activities are just the ticket for a quick STEM lesson that provides a challenge and a “brain push up” in a short amount of time with just a few materials.An easy way to infuse engineering into your day! "Keep Bo Peep Sheep's Complete!" asks students to build a square pen for Little Bo Peep's sheep and is a great introduction of engineering to preschoolers, k
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PreK - 2nd
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes and STEM Bundle
Introducing STEM
Introduction to STEM students - First STEM Challenge - Setting up STEM in your classroom - This provides what you need to introduce STEM challenges to your young students. It provides ideas for read-alouds, a supply request letter, a STEM interest inventory, a beginning STEM challenge along with recording pages, rules for STEM, and a flip book. This will help you guide your students into the practice of "thinking outside the box". It will help you set guidelines for your students and will hel
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Dinosaur STEM Activity for Preschool - Dinosaur STEM Challenge PreK
This preschool Dinosaur STEM activity is designed to help your PreK students learn more about dinosaurs and paleontology. This Build a Dinosaur Model STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Challenge: Present the STEM activity- Create a new dinosaur skeleton model for the museum to display. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any materials you have on hand- suc
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PreK - K
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Itsy Bitsy Spider PreK STEM activity - Preschool Halloween STEM lesson - October
This Spiders STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK students learn more about how the world works. This Halloween STEM lesson about spiders helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials. The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Use materials to help build a new web home that the itsy bitsy spider will stay on.Materials NeededWe've included a list for material recommendations, but this exploration can be done with material
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PreK - K
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
LEGO Challenge STEAM STEM Activites
Are you looking to enhance your child's engineering skills? I have just made it easy for you! I have researched and created 20 different activities that can be used with LEGOs or Duplos. The activities are varied to get your little one interested in building.
*This listing is for the digital download of 20 activity tags (PDF document). Print them on Avery 8160 labels. Place the labels on tags, index cards or in a notebook for easy reference!
Age: Toddler to Middle School
Skill: Building, Engi
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PreK - 6th
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Milk Carton Upcycle STEM STEAM Challenge, Earth Day Craft Recycling Project
With this STEM STEAM art challenge, children are encouraged to think outside the “milk carton,” and craft something new. Use at your classroom makerspace or as a family homework project for Earth Day while learning about trash and recycling during a unit for preschool, kindergarten, first grade or second grade. Children will learn that upcycling and repurposing an object, is not only fun and useful, but a really great thing to do for our environment. This STEM STEAM challenge series was designed
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PreK - 2nd
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K-ESS3-3
Snowflake PreK STEM activity - Winter Preschool STEM lesson - Engineering
This Build a Snowflake STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works. This winter STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Construct a model of a snowflake that has six sides or points and fits in the hexagon template. Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can b
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PreK - K
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Halloween PreK STEM activity - Bat Preschool STEM lesson - October
This Bat STEM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK students learn more about how the world works. This Halloween STEM lesson about bats helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials. The PreK STEM Exploration Process:Present the STEM exploration- Use materials to help your bat hang upside down without falling.Materials NeededWe've included a list for material recommendations that includes branches or sticks, but this exploration can be done with ma
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PreK - K
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Outdoor Education - A Collection of STEM Activities (ENGLISH & FRENCH)
Are you looking for some quick and easy Nature STEM activities to help take the learning outside? This resource has 8 STEM activities to support your outdoor education program. This resource is in BOTH ENGLISH & FRENCH Just like my Collection of Nature Activities for Every Day Play, each activity has a list of materials needed, steps to follow and a picture for inspiration. This resource also includes 21 writing response pages perfect for students to document their learning. There are also n
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Ultimate Outdoor Education Bundle
Skeleton STEM Activity for Preschool - My Body Bones STEM Challenge PreK
This preschool Skeleton STEM activity is designed to help your PreK students learn more about their human skeleton, bones, and skeletal system. This Build a Skeleton STEM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and create using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEM Challenge: Present the STEM activity- Build a model of a human skeleton that includes bones in the correct places.Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but this exploration can be done with any mate
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PreK - K
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Also included in: My Body Activities Bundle for Preschool - All About Me and My Body PreK
Paint Color Mixing PreK STEAM Activity - Feelings Preschool Art Lesson
This Painting Feelings STEAM exploration activity is designed to help your PreK and Kindergarten students learn more about how the world works through a creative process. This Color Mixing STEAM lesson helps young learners explore, plan, and develop their creativity using common, everyday materials.The PreK STEAM Exploration Process:Present the STEAM exploration- Create one special color for each feeling, happy, sad and mad.Materials Needed:We've included a list of material recommendations but t
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Preschool Feelings and Emotions Activities Bundle
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