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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa physical science resources for GATE
Christmas STEM Challenges (December) - Christmas & Winter STEM Activities BUNDLE
These Christmas/Holiday STEM/STEAM activities are perfect to engage your elementary engineers in December! Three STEM challenges and one Bonus Brainbuilder are provided and can be completed as stations or in isolation.Includes the following LOW PREP STEM Challenges:Santa's ParachuteShelf for the ElfTallest TreeBonus Brainbuilder: Gingerbread EscapeNow includes the following Winter STEM (Not Holiday Specific) Challenges:Special DeliveryToy ShelfWinter TreeIncludes the following components for EAC
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Winter Holidays Around the World Digital Escape Room-Christmas Updated No Google
Holidays Around the World is a fun and engaging way to introduce students to different winter holidays celebrated around the world. Each of the holidays represented has an informational paragraph about the holiday, a short video, and a game to play to find the clue for the escape room. The holidays represented are:Christmas in AmericaLas Posadas (Mexico)Kwanzaa (African inspired)Christmas in AustraliaChinese New YearDiwaliHanukkahSt. Lucia DayCheck out the preview and video to see more!How does
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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CCSS:
5 STEM Activities Desert Island STEM Challenge Bridge Catapult Raft Hut STEAM
If your students enjoy doing STEM or STEAM activities, they will LOVE this set of 5 fully-planned out challenges! All five themed STEM challenges center around the story of a shipwrecked traveler stranded on a deserted island. After watching an introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the story of the shipwreck, students will read five of the traveler's diary entries. Each entry will challenge them to design and build something to help him survive and get back to civilization!These STEM challeng
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Winter STEM Bins® Teambuilders - Christmas, Holiday, Snow STEM Activities
★ GRAB MY NEW STEM BINS TEAMBUILDERS GROWING BUNDLE!★ Winter STEM Bins® Teambuilders are low prep STEM Activities that are designed to foster student collaboration and build your classroom community during December, January, and February!Both lower grade (K-1st Grade) and upper grade (2nd-5th Grade) versions are included!★ CLICK HERE FOR SUPPLY LISTThe following STEM Bins® Teambuilders are designed to accompany my STEM Bins®, found at the following link:★STEM BINS8 winter themed Challenges are p
Grades:
PreK - 5th
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STEM Activities Pioneer Challenge Science Bundle Set of 5 STEM Projects
This is a set of 5 STEM challenges centered around the story of a pioneer family. After hearing about their travels west during the Land Rush of 1889, students will read about different parts of the journey. Each one will challenge them to design something to help the family build their new life.Includes 5 different STEM projects:Thirsty Travelers: Design A Water FilterHome Sweet Home: Construct A CabinWhose Territory?: Build A TowerBath Time: Solar Water HeaterDigging A Well: Design A Rock Move
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-4
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
...
Fun Winter STEM Activities Projects Science Parachute Tower Snowball Shooter
This set of winter STEM challenges are centered around the story of a group of stranded arctic explorers who need your students' help to survive!Begin by showing students the "movie trailer" (preview video) to build interest. After hearing the story of the failed expedition, students will read 5 diary entries. Each one presents a problem to solve and will challenge them to design something to help the group make it back to base camp.Includes 5 separate winter STEM challenges:Arctic Architect: Co
Grades:
4th - 7th
Force and Motion STEM project Egg Drop Challenge Engineering Design Process
Looking for a fun way for students to use their knowledge of force, Newton's laws, and practice their engineering skills? This egg drop STEM engineering design process challenge will get your students designing, testing, investigating, thinking like a disciplinarian, and acting as engineers as they improve their egg structures to mimic the Mars rover landing. ✎Print and digital versions This engineering design STEM project includes:✅ Teacher guide for doing the activity✅ Student handouts for t
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Christmas Math Enrichment Activities - Logic Puzzle Challenges
Ten Christmas and Winter Themed Logic Puzzles for students to practice critical thinking and basic math skills during the winter months! Use as a winter math activity for early finishers, a cooperative learning activity, or a math center.Digital Version in Google Slides™ also included!SAVE BIG by buying in the Holiday Math Logic Puzzle Bundle.Math Skills Included:-Basic Operations-Place Value and Rounding-Multiples and Prime Numbers-2-D Shape Characteristics and Classifications-Volume of Rectang
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Math Enrichment: Math Logic Puzzles Bundle
States of Matter Game Show Properties of Matter, Solids Liquids and Gases Review
This NO PREP States of Matter Jeopardy™ Style PowerPoint Game Show is a fun and engaging way for students in 1st grade and 2nd grade review their understanding of solids, liquids, and gasses. It's perfect for test prep and pre-assessment both in person and on ZOOM. The categories for questions include Vocabulary, States of Matter, Properties of Matter, Name That State of Matter, and Which One Doesn't Belong?⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS GAME WILL WORK ON YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE YOU BUY? Downloa
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Table-top Mini Golf: STEAM Engineering and Design for Elementary GATE
In From Putt-putt to Pebble Beach--Table-top Mini Golf, students will design and construct a playable table-top sized miniature golf course using the engineering design process. With these lessons, the teacher defines the problem, helps students gather background research, and specifies the requirements. The students do the rest: creating alternative solutions, choosing the best solution, doing development work, building a prototype, and testing and redesigning. The result is a classroom filled
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
Space STEM STEAM Activities 5 Challenges Straw Balloon Rocket Parachute Bridge
This is a set of 5 space-themed STEM challenges centered around the story of a group of scientists who must travel to Jupiter to save mankind. After watching the introductory “movie trailer” and hearing the opening storyline, students will read 5 of the team's travel log entries. Each one will challenge them to design something to help them survive and save the humans back on Earth.STEM Challenges in this set:• 3-2-1 Blastoff: Design a Rocket• Touchdown: Build an Orbiter Landing Device• Don’t Lo
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Force & Motion STEM Activity BUNDLE 15 Projects + STEM Rubric Space Rome
Natural Disasters STEM
Weather Hazard STEM Bundle - Oh no! The family bought property near a fault line and needs an earthquake resistant home. The weather forecast is for dangerously high winds. The family needs a safe place to go. The city is building an observation tower that will be susceptible to lightning and needs a lightning rod. A heavy flood is coming and the house needs a flood barrier. All of these problems need your young student engineers to solve them! This STEM bundle meets many different NGSS s
Grades:
1st - 5th
Christmas Logic Puzzles- Holiday Activities for Grades 3 4 5 - Fast Finishers
Looking for a variety of critical thinking activities for centers or fast finishers this Christmas? THIS is IT!!! These December puzzles will engage your students in productive struggle and they might not even know they are using critical thinking skills. 8 unique brain busters will be fun challenges for your antsy students. Open the preview and have a look! This set has been recently updated. It now includes 2 new puzzles. To upload the new puzzles just go into "My Purchases" and downloa
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Mini-Golf Vector Activity - Adding Multiple Vectors
This fun 50 minute activity is designed to simplify resolving vectors into components and determining the magnitude and direction of the resultant when multiple vectors are added. It is appropriate for on-level up to AP Physics and for a pre-calculus class.Presented as a 9 hole round of mini-golf, students use colored pencils to resolve vectors into x and y components using a grid, add those components to create a resultant and then calculate the magnitude and direction of the resulting vector.
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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Christmas Critical Thinking Bundle | Logic | Sequencing | Math Puzzles
This is a bundle of my five CHRISTMAS CRITICAL THINKING PRODUCTS for grades 1-3. This bundle teaches logic and deductive reasoning, analogies and classifying, and attribute listing to get your kiddos thinking at those higher levels. This bundle is completely updated with new clip art and fonts and now includes a digital version of each product from use in Google Slides™.Purchase this bundle and save 20% off the price if purchased separately!HOW CAN I USE THIS PRODUCT?In a Center: Print out the
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Ancient Rome STEM Team Building Activities Set of 5 STEM Projects
This is a set of 5 different activities centered around the story of a slave living in ancient Rome. After hearing the opening storyline, students will read 5 of the slave's diary entries. Each one will challenge them to design something that will help him earn his freedom and become a Roman citizen.STEM Challenges in this pack:Road Trip: Design a TrunkFood for Thought: Create a Fishing NetCatch a Breeze: Windmill ChallengeNow We're Cooking: Construct a Solar OvenWater, Water Everywhere: Build a
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Force & Motion STEM Activity BUNDLE 15 Projects + STEM Rubric Space Rome
Santa's Parachute / Special Delivery STEM Challenge - Christmas STEM Activity
***SAVE BIG WITH THE CHRISTMAS STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Christmas themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in December! With a focus on force and motion, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate winter.***Also includes "Special Delivery" STEM Parachute Activity that is not holiday specific.***Includes the following components for SANTA'S PARACHUTE STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Goog
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Christmas Mystery Science | Winter Activities | Crime Scene Investigation
Looking to add a little HOLIDAY Differentiation for your students?Hoping to keep things fun, yet academic?Check out this HYBRID WhoDunnit that provides a HANDS-ON or totally digital final investigation!The ELF Enigma is an engaging digital activity that’s super easy to set up for DISTANCE Learning or in the CLASSROOM.Students analyze suspects through witness statements, alibis, inferences, and trace evidence. It all leads up to a final DNA and Dental Impression analysis which reveals the culprit
Grades:
4th - 6th
Shelf for the Elf / Toy Shelf STEM Challenge - Christmas STEM Activity - Winter
***SAVE BIG WITH THE CHRISTMAS STEM BUNDLE!***This low prep, Christmas themed STEM/STEAM activity is perfect to engage your elementary engineers in December! With a focus on engineering, this activity is always a fun way to celebrate winter.***Also includes "Toy Shelf" STEM Activity that is not holiday specific.***Includes the following components for Shelf for the Elf STEM ACTIVITY:Detailed Lesson Plan with Standards, Supply Checklist, and Suggested Read AloudsDigital Google Slides Notebook for
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
STEAM Class Bundle - Engineering Focus - 115+ Hours 374 pp Gifted GATE
115+ hours of class time, 374 pages. This collection is big and includes big savings--42% off individual purchases of some. Pretty much everything in the Portable Gifted and Talented store is rated 4.0, but take a couple minutes to peruse the comments for these individual units. I think you’ll like what you see.Designed for two purposes:A curriculum for Middle School STEAM classes with an engineering focus. Or . . .Upper Elementary GATE – Very Challenging!These units are big, fairly comprehe
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
CHRISTMAS HINK PINK et al. PUZZLES Word Riddles Task Cards Vocabulary GATE
HINK PINKS, HINKY PINKIES, HINKITY PINKITIES, and HITINKITY PITINKITIES are riddles that help children learn to problem solve while exercising vocabulary skills (definitions, synonyms, parts of speech, rimes, ...). These Christmas themed, printable task cards prompt your students to interpret data, make inferences, draw conclusions, and analyze new information. Hink Pinks, et al. riddles are terrific for centers, enrichment, differentiation, bell ringers, sponge activities, and GATE. They are al
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Not Grade Specific
Types:
Also included in: HOLIDAY HINK PINKS, et al. BUNDLE
Christmas STEM Activities Challenges - 12 Easy Low-Prep Ideas for Elementary
Low prep and FUN Christmas STEM activities! Make a parachute gift drop, a snowball launcher, an elf zip line, and 9 more festive challenges!Easy to differentiate, with color-coding based on level of difficulty, these activities are easy enough to do in one class period! With 12 challenges to choose from, there is something for everyone. Host a 12 days of Christmas STEM event, a STEM family night, or use some challenges this year and some next.✅ What You'll Get ✅Suggested Material ListSTEM Challe
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Christmas STEM Activities MEGA Bundle
December Early Finisher/Challenger {Grades 3-6}
*Update*: You can now purchase this packet as part of a WINTER Bundle or for even more savings purchase the FULL SCHOOL YEAR Bundle!
WINTER Early Finisher Bundle
The FULL School Year Early Finisher Bundle
This packet is a bundle of fun, engaging, and challenging activities designed for Grades 3-6 as an answer to the age-old question:"I'm Done, Now What?"
It includes math, history, writing, reading, trivia, brain teasers, logic puzzles and more!
*Answer keys ARE included*
How to Use:
Early F
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Christmas Low-Prep Activities Depth and Complexity Print-and-Go
This Depth and Complexity Christmas Activity Pack is perfect if you're looking for a fabulous selection of Christmas activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework. This Depth and Complexity Christmas Activity Pack has language arts, social studies, math, and science activities, all in one great resource. You'll find Christmas writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, a Christmas Around the World mini-book and more! Of course ther
Grades:
4th - 8th
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