My favorite lower elementary STEM center! These STEM tasks are designed for building bricks like LEGO ®. These challenge cards are easy to set up but highly rigorous. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. What You'll Get: Includes original set plus sets listed below!Basic STEM Mats SetTeacher instructions and sample imagesLetter to send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for donations10 basic STEM M
The *perfect* makerspace task cards for building bricks! Reusable, print-and-go STEM mats encourage critical thinking skills and creativity, while providing hands-on building opportunities and practical math practice.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Lego engineering is the most favored activity in my second grade class. These mats are incredible. I pair up the students and give them each a tub of Legos and a mat. I just dumped all of the same colored blocks in a plastic food container and each color goes with a certai
President's Day is a great time to honor our founding fathers. And what better way to honor our first president than by building a new monument? Using the listed materials, students will create a presidential pillar so that Washington's portrait (a quarter) can balance on top.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (diffe
What could be more fun than building a snowman? How about building a snowman on stilts? With this STEAM challenge, your students will work to build the tallest free-standing snowman possible!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differentiated for grades K-2 or 3-5)
-- Open-ended writing page for follow-up or related
STEM Mats are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. Includes metric options as well.CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for don
STEM Mats are SO easy to set up in your classroom! If you were thinking of trying STEM Fridays or Maker Mondays, or you need something more engaging for your early finishers than worksheets or reading, this is the resource for you. Not only will your students be working creatively to solve problems, they will be reading, writing, and using math skills. CONTENTSInstructions and sample imagesLetter you can send home to parents, caregivers, and friends to ask for donations6 Presidents' Day related
This set of task cards provides enrichment for all the math topics in Kindergarten. The topics included are: Patterns, More or Less, Addition, Subtraction, Time, Money, 3D Shapes, Graphing, Measurement, and Word Problems.
Have you wanted to build a leprechaun trap with your students? This product is a children's engineering project that gives students the opportunity to be creative while having fun with St. Patrick's Day. Included in this product is a design challenge with criteria, brainstorming page, final product information sheet, and a self-reflection page. If you want to make it more difficult for your students assign each supply a price and give students a limit on how much they can spend. I hope you a
Do you love doing hands-on, engaging measurement activities with your students? Take the work out of teaching a new recording sheet and allow students to get straight to measuring! These recording sheets can become a go-to, easy to use resource for so many of your STEM Challenges. Here are just a few ideas for potential “launch” challenges:•Catapults•Paper Airplanes•Straw Rockets•Balloon Powered Cars or Rockets•Foam Stomp Rockets•Origami Jumping Frogs•Lego VehiclesWhether your students need prac
This is a great self correcting, drag-and-drop time to the hour analog clock game! Students easily practice and you can quickly asses what they understand. :) Included: 24 multiple-choice questions with large analog clock!12 with word format choices12 with number formatted choiceshas red, hour hand and blue, minute handDrag-and-drop ovals gives loads of fun!A wonderful item for individuals or groups and in virtual or standard classrooms. Enjoy!-------------------------------------------------
STEM Centers can be easy to set up and use. This is a demo and free sample of STEM Centers for Building Bricks. Geared toward K-2 students, these mats make it easy to have a STEM center your kids can access independently.
A sample STEM Mat is included in both classic and spring colors so that you can try out the activity. This mat is not included in the paid resource so be sure to download it if you want both!
Have you used the Cafe with Reading and want to know how to do it with Math?
I have created your resource with all the Math TEKS to help you set goals with your students, guide their learning, and stay on track. Super easy way to differentiate and a video training is included.