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STEM Engineering Starter Kit for Teachers {elementary level}
Is your elementary school starting the Engineering Design Process? Does thinking about STEM make you want to pull your hair out? Do you feel confused about what STEM looks like in an elementary classroom setting? If so, this free STEM starter kit is for you! The packet includes everything I wish I had known about STEM when my school started implementing STEM in 2011. I hope it is helpful to you! I am in the process of going through all of the STEM activities I created over the past couple of yea
Grades:
K - 4th
Free Project-Based Math Activity | Area & Perimeter | Math PBL Activities
This free 2-day project-based math resource applies math concepts in a real-world scenario to teach students about concepts of measurement including calculating area and perimeter of rectangles. In this 2-day resource, students will apply area and perimeter concepts to plan a beach trip for their family and friends. This area and perimeter math project is engaging and authentic.⭐️ For the full area and perimeter project-based math unit, check out my Plan a Beach Trip PBL.⭐️ Get a year-long bundl
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3rd
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Brain Gush GT Math Challenges - Fifth Grade - SAMPLE
If you love this.... look for my set of 10 weeks of BRAIN GUSHES.https://tinyurl.com/braingushBrain Gush I teach fifth grade math in Texas. I am very intent on my students’ success in life. I want them to have a great understanding of math concepts with amazing problem solving skills. Success on their end of the year tests is also important to me. ;) Critical thinking is essential for their success. I created Brain Gush and my students LOVE it! They love the choice, the challenges, and the
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4th - 6th
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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 Makerspace Activities FREEBIE
Combine thematic units and creative, artistic, outside-the-box thinking in these STEM and STEAM Makerspace activities! They are a great way to incorporate STEM into your core Reading, Math, Science or Social Studies instruction. They come in a variety of sets so that you can differentiate based on your student’s needs. These are open-ended Makerspace lessons, so they are less 'science experiment' and more 'maker'. They are less 'directions, guidelines and lists of materials' and more 'here is th
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K - 3rd
5th Grade Review Project
This is a math project that covers many of the 5th grade Common Core Standards. It is meant to be completed at the end of the school year as a review tool or after state assessments as an extended learning opportunity. This project requires students to plan a cross-country road trip for themselves and their family. They are responsible of determining the vehicle to be used, the cost for all destination activities, lodging, and food, and much more. This is a fun and engaging activity for soon-to-
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4th - 6th
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Valentine's Day: Heart Building STEM Challenge FREEBIE
February STEM or Valentine's Day Lesson Planning Made FUN!Are you looking for the perfect Valentine's Day activity to keep your enthusiastic students engaged and problem-solving during the school day or during your classroom Valentine's Day celebration?Here is the perfect problem-based Valentine's Day resource to grab their attention using mini-bags of Lego-like building blocks.Goal of the Valentine's Day Heart Building Challenge…• Students must construct a freestanding heart using only the buil
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Shark Tank Project Based Learning
Overview: In this project, students will learn about entrepreneurship and get to create their own business that solves a problem in their life. Students will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to your class, and your classroom winner will be eligible to enter our National ClassEquity Shark Tank competition! This lesson plan includes:Vocab List Lesson 1: What makes a successful Entrepreneur? Lesson 2: Design Studio Lesson 3: Building a PrototypeLesson 4: Preparing a PitchLesson 5: Demo Day!
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3rd - 12th
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Fairy Tale S.T.E.A.M Activities - Caution: Castles Under Construction FREEBIE
Turn your fairy tale unit into an integrated study of the scientific, artistic, and mathematical thinking behind castle construction with this S.T.E.A.M. activity pack! Extend your students' thinking and ignite their imaginations by sharing literature, facilitating research, and providing materials that encourage them to become royal builders!Steps to follow, literature links, video recommendations, and hands-on material suggestions are included, along with full-color photographs of castles fro
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1st - 3rd
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Passion Project/Genius Hour Starter Sheets (FREEBIE)
Are your students completing a Passion Project or Genius Hour? These activities are awesome ways to encourage creativity and critical thinking in your students, but they can be daunting to start from a teacher's perspective. My Passion Project/Genius Hour Starter Sheets are the perfect way to help your students begin thinking about what interests them, identify a topic, formulate research questions, and plan out their research and presentation. One brainstorming sheet and one planning sheet are
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3rd - 8th
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Paper Folding Direction Following and Sequencing for Older Students {FREE}
It's a snowflake, it's a flower, it's a star, it's a sun, it's a pinwheel! It can be any of the above, depending on what time of year you decide to use it! This year-round paper folding activity is a fun and functional way to address direction following and sequencing. This direction following activity is geared toward older students who need to strengthen direction following skills---- an age-appropriate project that contains language extension activities. Ways to address speech and language
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5th - 10th
Pushes and Pulls - Project-Based Learning Starter Series
Thank you for considering Primary Projects! "Pushes and pulls" is the second entry in the starter series and is completely free. The starter series is meant to be an introduction to project and inquiry-based learning that can be done in just 10-20 minutes per day.“Pushes and Pulls” is a fun and simple introduction to forces, motion, and energy. This PBL packet relies on a combination of inquiry-based learning using focus questions and direct instruction. The project starts with vocabulary and co
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K - 1st
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STEM Project- Create a Marble Rollercoaster!
Students work cooperatively to design a rollercoaster around a theme, create the rollercoaster using construction paper, tape, and a shoebox, maintain a modifications log, and compete against other rollercoasters. The rollercoaster that has the longest time for a marble to roll all the way through their coaster wins!
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4th - 8th
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Free Preview Design a Zoo: A Digital Project Based Learning Experience
Thanks for choosing this project based learning experience for your students! They are sure to have fun, be creative, and learn some valuable skills.
This is a free preview of the full product.
In Design a Zoo, students take on the role of a design consultant asked to create a new zoo. Students will need to:
–Name the Zoo
–Create a welcoming sign
–Select the animals
–Design animal habitats
–Create information sheets
–Create a budget
–And present their work to a "Board of Directors"
This exp
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3rd - 8th
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I'm All Done! (enrichment projects sampler FREEBIE)
This is a sampler set of 6 fast finisher projects in my store. It's a good chance to try it before you buy it! This set inlcludes:
*football concessions (a money activity from September)
*planning a Thanksgiving menu (a problem solving activity from November
*shopping shenanigans (a money activity from December)
*snow family fun (a measurement activity from January)
*spring break challenge (a random act of kindness challenge from March)
*where in the world is...(a research and writing activitiy
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2nd - 3rd
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Fun Decimal Operations Real World Application
Take your class on a field trip to the Natalica Zoo! Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals in this fun field trip planning activity. Includes a brochure to use with the activity and a complete lesson plan.
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6th - 8th
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Shark Tank Project Based Learning
Shark Tank Project Based Learning | Design and Present an InventionProject Based Learning is such a fun way to engage students in taking learning into their own hands. Students will participate together in a group to design and market a product/invention. Students will be responsible for describing and sketching the product, and then presenting it to the remainder of the class OR special judges.Included in TPT purchase:Shark Tank: What is it?Describe It!Sketch It!Review Board SheetDid you know y
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3rd - 6th
5 Ways To Use Lunch Bags in Counseling and Therapy
Creative strategies to encourage feelings expression and healing with the use of lunch bags and imagination. Fun crafting projects.
Resource includes tips for crafting and therapeutically using:
1. The Mindless Monster (Mindfulness)
2. The Separated Homes (Divorce)
3. The Angry Volcano (Anger and Coping Skills)
4. The Giving Tree (Gratitude and Kindness)
5. The Grief Journal (Healing from Loss)
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Not Grade Specific
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Hatchet Choice Board
This has been my students favorite for years! Activities are fun and engaging!-Include Blooms Taxonomy Leveled Comprehension Tasks and many engaging final projects! Includes Flipgrid, Makey Makey, STEM, Scratch, and much more!!
Grades:
5th - 8th
Project Based Learning- Water Pollution: A Second Grade Activity Guide STEM
This is an activity guide for a PBL unit on Water Pollution. It is based on the Ohio second grade science standards but could be applicable to any second grade classroom. The guide includes writing and pre-writing activities, researching, building an enclosed water cycle in a terrarium, learning about world-wide water pollution problems, building a working water filter and creating a culminating project to share what they've learned.
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2nd - 3rd
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Kelso's Choices Activity - Puppet Cut-Out Included
Students can learn about Kelso's Choices with this interactive activity. Included are printouts of Kelso's 9 different choices, along with discussion prompts, and a cut-out of Kelso to create a puppet. Students will learn the difference between big problems and small problems, and how they could use their 9 different choices. Pages of this file can be used as posters in the classroom, or can be printed out as individual wheels for each student.
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PreK - 3rd
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FREE STEM At Home Learning Menus
Integrate STEM at Home!Help students integrate STEM subjects at home with these 3 FREE STEM learning menus. Includes Spanish version for ESL families!Integrate Writing, Reading, Math, Science, and Geography!These activities are interdisciplinary and help students make connections between STEM subjects as well as writing and reading.Material List:To complete these STEM menus students will need common household items like paper and tape.Includes:This resource includes three menus that can be used
Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Entire Year of Read Aloud STEM Activity Menus Bundle
Volume Zoo Project
Students create an animal out of cardboard boxes and other materials. This packet helps students design, measure, and calculate the volume of composite shapes.
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4th - 6th
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ESCAPE ROOM FREEBIE: Fairytale 2 - WOLFMAGEDDON: 3 Activities, Instructions, Key
Fairytale Escape Room 2 WOLFMAGEDDON Taster Pack – Instructions This product is a free taster for our newest Escape Room based on Fairytales. We have included three of the ten challenges from the full pack, along with the Answer Key and the instructions for using with your children.Using an Escape Room to develop curriculum knowledge is an exciting activity that will inspire learners from 2nd Grade to 5th Grade. The curriculum content of the full Escape Room is linked to:Literature – Fairytales
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2nd - 5th
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