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Critical thinking Common Core 6.EE.C.9 resources
STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity (Printed & Digital)
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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Grades:
5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
STEM Sailboat Challenge Math & Engineering Activity
STEM Sailboat Engineering Activity Description Updated to include an editable STEM journals, instructional video, and teacher slides!The Sailboat STEM activity is a great way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or afterschool program! Many are familiar with the boat buoyancy challenge, and this takes it one step further by adding a sail! Now students must build a boat to hold a specific weight as well as incorporate aerodynamic principals to make it move. This hands
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-PS2-2
...
Also included in: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
STEM Activity Hoop Glider Challenge (Variable Testing)
Hoop Glider STEM Activity with Digital & Printed Journal and Teacher Slides! The hoop glider STEM activity includes building a glider made from straw, tape, and index cards or paper to travel the farthest distance. Different activity versions are provided to accommodate student ability and time constraints. Topics Covered: Scientific Method through Variable TestingSTEM Career: Aerospace EngineeringEngineering Design ProcessForces of FlightRatiosThis hands-on activity shows students how to op
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Grades:
1st - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
STEM Space Rover Engineering Challenge (Pi Day)
Space Rover STEM ChallengeThis rover STEM challenge is a perfect way to celebrate the Mars Perseverance rover landing, Pi Day on March 14th, or for a space-themed engineering design challenge. Activity: Students will build a rubberband-powered rover to complete an exciting mission. They will then practice using Pi to analyze their design with imaginative math extension questions. This hands-on activity is an engaging design challenge that allows students to work in teams, apply the engineering d
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Space Rover STEM Engineering Design Challenge (Middle School STEM)
Mars & Moon Rover STEM Activity: Engineering Design Challenge with Math Extension Includes editable digital and printed STEM journals, instructional video, and teacher slides. NASA needs your help! Your mission is to use the engineering design process to design and build a rover to transport rock samples on the Moon or Mars (both versions included). This hands-on activity is an engaging design challenge that allows students to work in teams (or individually), apply the engineering design pro
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Save the Polar Bears! Winter STEM Challenge
Save the Polar Bears: Sailboat Winter STEM Engineering Design Challenge with Math Extensions Includes an editable STEM journals, teacher slides, and instructional video.A family of polar bears need your help! Due to climate change, their sea ice home is melting, and we need to move the family to a new location. Use the engineering design process to design and build a boat to carry the polar bears to a new home. The Sailboat STEM activity is a great way to incorporate the engineering design proce
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-PS2-2
...
Christmas STEM Activity: Santa's Transportation Device
Get your students in the Christmas spirit by helping Santa and his elves move presents! This is a perfect STEM activity for the Christmas holidays that includes a storyline about transporting presents to Santa's sleigh! Activity Overview: Santa needs your help! The elves built a really heavy present that they are unable to move! Your mission is to design a way to transport the heavy present from Santa’s Workshop to his sleigh. Students will learn about circuits and use a coin cell battery and vi
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Christmas STEM Challenges Bundle: Elf, Santa, and More!
Balance Benders Beginning Level Workbook of Logic & Algebraic Reasoning Puzzles
A 48-page printable PDF mind flexing and exercising puzzle ebook for grades 2-6. Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Students must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one—a
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Monetary Mindbenders
Challenge your gifted and talented, high achieving, or early finishing students with word problems designed to extend their thinking about math and money. Each problem can be solved using basic mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and foundational knowledge of money, fractions, decimals. Have your students delve deeper into these concepts by requiring them to use multiple steps, logical reasoning, and algebraic thinking. Download includes two versions o
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4th - 6th
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Algebra Bundle 5 units 100+ pages Notes, Activities, Quizzes, and more
Algebra Bundle of 100+ pages. There is 5 units in this bundle. Each unit contains plans, notes, activities, interactive reviews, and a quiz. Included is my personal notes on things that I have used in my classroom. The topics of the 5 units are Exponents, Order of Operations, Math Properties, Combining Like Terms, and Solving Equations. Again each topic contains 20+ pages of content.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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Unemployment in the United States after the Great Recession
In 2008, the U.S. unemployment rate was over 10%. By August 2013, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 %. This activity may be a wonderful investigation into whether the “job market” is really improving and more people are finding jobs to support their families and themselves. Topics discussed in this activity include independent and dependent variables, graphing data, using software to generate a graph and calculate a “line of best fit or trendline”, and predict future outcomes. As an option
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Grades:
6th - 11th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Jan. 11 Math & Inventions Puzzle: 1st Clincial Use of the X-Ray | Algebra Review
January 11 of the Mystery Year was a key date in the development of X-rays. Algebra skills in clues for the puzzle involve solving problems by writing and solving equations, using variables to represent two quantities where one quantity is written in terms of the other, error analysis to find and correct an error in a series of steps, and logical reasoning. The clues for finding the year connect to the invention of the X-ray through a variety of problems dealing with unknowns. Your PDF download
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Whats My Rule?
This is a fun challenging game for the class to take part in. In "What's My Rule?" students need to analyse the graphs given & come up with a set of rules that pertain to each graph. In the end, students need to find the rule that applies to every graph within the presentation.
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Grades:
7th - 11th
Smelly Jelly Stones Candy Conundrum - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How would you plan an irresistible mix of jelly stones for a candy company in time for Halloween?Description:The mixologists at the Smelly Jelly Stones Candy Company are perplexed. They are planning their Howler Halloween Mix and want to know which flavors of jelly stones to include in their ghostly trick or treat packages. The Big Boss is waiting.From measurement conversion to calculating cost and profit, all you'll need is a calculator and your imagination to be successful wit
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Grades:
6th - 7th
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Saltday's Numeracy Collection: Capitalism Challenge
It seems that many of my students over the years would shy away from math problems that had multi-steps, lot's of text, and use of charts. So I will be creating numeracy products that employ the above obstacles. I have also included some open ended reflection questions and a list of pertinent or related vocabulary that students should seek to define. This particular numeracy challenge would be good for discussions on the role of private ownership a foundation of capitalism. It would also be
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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