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Science Common Core 1.G.A.1 resources
If I Built a House READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge End of the Year Activity 3D Shapes
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy in your classroom at the End of the School Year!Teach students everything they need to build a house using 2D Shapes and 3D Shapes! Your students will love designing, building, testing, and writing about their very own house!Connect to a Read Aloud: If I Built a House by Chris Van DusenThis STEM Project is a companion activity to If I Built A House by Chris Van Dusen. The book explores all the elements needed for an amazing house!Take students through the ST
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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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2-D Shapes Robot Craftivity | 2D Shapes Activities | 2D Shape Craft Robot
Your mathematicians and engineers will LOVE designing and constructing these fun robots composed of two-dimensional shapes, or 2-D shapes! Depending on the grade level, your mathematicians and engineers can use their shape robots to show how many circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses, and hexagons, and how many sides and vertices they used! This is great for differentiation or a mix of grade levels! There's a bonus engineering connection! There is a read aloud book that can used to
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Grades:
K - 2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
2D Shapes Geometry Math Task Cards Special Education Kindergarten Centers
In your special education classroom, are you working on geometry? Task cards are a great way for your students to work on their identification and fact fluency for 2D shapes in real life and in symbols.These 60+ task cards work on identifying 2D Shapes in Math. Easily differentiate in task boxes with levels from errorless work to 3 answer choices. Mix them up or work on question levels separately!These task cards can be used during direct instruction, individual work, and in task boxes. Appropri
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PreK - 1st
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Emergency First Grade Sub Plans for the Year BUNDLE | Substitute Plans for 1st
First Grade Emergency Substitute Lesson Plans! This substitute bundle includes 24 DETAILED first grade sub plans. These first grade sub plans are perfect for any emergency sub day or a day packed with engaging themed activities! These plans are no prep - just print and leave for your sub! Students and substitutes will love the activities included in each sub pack! These sub plans include reading, math, writing, social studies and science activities. These plans also include an editable PowerPoin
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K - 2nd
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STEM Challenge: Build Famous Landmarks
Can your kids build the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China AND the Empire State Building in one afternoon?! These 47 STEM challenge cards use real pictures of famous landmarks from around the world to inspire kids to build those three sites and so many more.The STEM challenge cards are a great way to help kids develop abstract thinking, design, engineering and building skills.Just cut apart the cards and grab a batch of building blocks for some serious STEM fun.For students who are ready for
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Year of STEM Challenges
2D 3D SHAPES Toothpick Cards | STEM Activities and Challenges
Are you looking for some engaging STEM ideas to incorporate into building geometry skills with 2D and 3D Shapes? I have you covered with these Build A Shape Mats! Print and laminate. Students build shapes with toothpicks and molding dough (you can use marshmallows or gumdrops instead), count the toothpicks, sides, vertices, and trace the words!What is inside:2D SHAPESPg. 3 Triangle MatPg. 4 Square MatPg. 5 Rhombus MatPg. 6 2D Rectangle MatPg. 7 Diamond MatPg. 8 Pentagon MatPg. 9 Hexagon MatPg.
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K - 2nd
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STEM Lab Starter Kit STEM Task Cards
Mini Classroom STEM Lab Starter Kit and STEM Task Cards-Not sure where to start when it comes to incorporating STEM into your classroom routine? This STEM Lab Starter kit and STEM Task Cards are designed to help you easily add STEM activities to your everyday schedule in a meaningful and low prep way! WHY STEM?STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Educating students in STEM subjects prepare students for life, regardless of the profession they choose to follow. STEM projec
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K - 2nd
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Year of STEM Challenges
"This is BY FAR the most comprehensive, FUN low prep STEM bundle I’ve ever bought. Love it, and so do the kids!" - Nikki M.Looking for easy prep, fun to solve STEM challenges for kids?! This epic bundle combines ALL of my STEM challenges into one easy purchase - my best selling landmark cards, toothpick and playdough STEM structures, weight and length challenges... they're all here! And that means you'll get an entire year of STEM challenges in one easy download.Each activity pack includes easy
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PreK - 3rd
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STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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Wooden block building challenge cards Block Center Activity BUNDLE for Kinder
Wooden block building - Block Center Activity. There are 105 construction cards included in this BUNDLE and children will love the challenge of building the various items including: bridges, towers, patterns, animals, people, robots, vehicles, aeroplanes, rockets and much more. This bundle contains the original set plus the new sets 1 -6 (7 sets in total or 105 cards! - enough to last all year in your block center!These cards are to be used alongside standard colored wooden blocks as shown in th
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
3D Shape STEM Challenge Cards
These STEM challenge cards are perfect for encouraging children to explore 3D shapes and their attributes through hands-on play! They help develop design and building skills, problem solving and spatial awareness skills.Two different designs have been included - one set of 12 cards with the shape named and shown + one set of 12 cards with only the shape names and the number of toothpicks and balls of playdough provided.Just press print and grab some toothpicks and a tub of playdough and you're r
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PreK - 2nd
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Wall-E Movie Guide and THREE DAYS Emergency Sub Lesson Printables K-5 Earth Day
This packet is "REEL FUN" and ready to go for the month of April for Earth Day!Sometimes you have to miss a day and you don't always know ahead of time. Sometimes, things just don't go as planned and you need some emergency lesson plans! This packet is for YOU friend!! EVERYTHING is NO PREP. All you need is the movie Wall-E and you are ready to go! The movie guide included in this set is separated over three days, so there are three total days of lesson plans included to go with those three
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Grades:
K - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
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If I Built A Car Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Integrate STEM lessons, Writing, and Literacy in your 1st Grade through 5th Grade classroom at the Beginning of the School Year! Perfect for STEM Club, Liberians, and Makerspaces!Teach students everything they need to build a car. Your students will love designing, building, testing, and writing about their very own car. Will it fly? Will it float? Will it have a robot driving it? The only limit is your own imagination!Connect to a Read Aloud: If I Built a Car by Chris Van DusenThis STEM Project
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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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Ocean Week: A Thematic Unit for 1st Grade
This is a thematic unit for first grade. It includes activities for phonics, reading, writing, social studies, science, math, and STEAM.Included in this unit:-Hard and soft C coral- sort for the sounds of C with two recording sheet options-Oi and oy oysters- differentiated word building activity for words with the oi/oy diphthongs with a recording sheet-Resources for read aloud: Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea (Robert Burleigh)- main idea graphic organizer, text to self connection graphic organ
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Grades:
1st
January STEM Activities Geoboard Snowflakes Symmetry Winter STEAM
This winter STEM challenge is a perfect way to incorporate hands on activity in the classroom. Students will create snowflakes with geoboards & can practice symmetry. This will match well with a math center!Looking for more Winter challenges? Save 30% and receive ALL activities! CLICK HERE for the BUNDLE.This activity includes a printable version AND Google Slides Presentation (works with Microsoft PowerPoint). This digital version:Can be used for distance learning, centers, independent wor
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PreK - 4th
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Common Core & NGSS Student-Friendly I Can Statements for Kindergarten
This huge bundle of EDITABLE student-friendly "I can" statements is aligned to the Common Core & NGSS Standards. In this resource you will find every ELA, Science, & MATH standard for kindergarten rewritten as an I Can statement. As an experienced evaluator, I know the importance of having standards written in kid-friendly terms that allow students to focus on the intended learning. Some of the standards are divided up into various I can statements to allow students to reach mastery.*TIP
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Grades:
K
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS3-1
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Easter STEM Challenges
These Easter STEM Challenges are a must-try! Grab a bag of jelly beans and dive into weight, length and science. The set is perfect to use in STEM centers, math stations or as early finisher tasks.
-----------------------------> Bundle with all of our STEM challenges and SAVE! <-----------------------------
INSIDE YOU'LL FIND:
--> 16 weight comparison cards asking "What weighs more?"
--> 16 weight comparison cards asking "What weighs more?" OR "What weighs less?"
--> 16 lengt
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Year of STEM Challenges
STEAM: Tetrahedral Kite 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 create individual tetrahedrons using straws, string and tissue paper that are used to build a tetrahedral kite. The lesson includes the mathematical background with a focus on ge
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Grades:
K - 6th
(STEM) STEAM: Sierpinski Pyramid 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 design a tetrahedron which will be used to create a large Sierpinski pyramid.Included in the lesson plan• list of materials needed• mathematical background• mathematical vocabular
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K - 8th
Engineering Engagement STEAM Kits - Monthly Thematic GROWING BUNDLE
Engineering Engagement STEAM Kits - Monthly Thematic GROWING BUNDLE**Simple, Low-Prep Thematic Monthly STEAM Engineering Activities**This complete bundle of Engineering Engagement STEAM Kits includes 10 full monthly themed editions that will keep your students engaged in fun and exciting STEAM activities all year long! (It also includes my "Engineering Design Process" Poster set as a bonus!) The best part is that after you prep the STEAM Kits once, you're good to go for the year! Just pop in ne
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PreK - 5th
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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
How to Build a Haunted House Halloween READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity - 3D Shapes
Can your students build the ultimate haunted house using 2D and 3D Shapes?Connect STEM, literacy, and writing with this Halloween STEM activity in which students engineer and build a haunted house! An excellent companion activity to the fall read-aloud book How to Build a Haunted House by Frank Tupta.Writing Extension:A writing extension is included for students to write a spooky story.Aligns with Common Core and NGSS.Includes:Teacher and Student Instructions (with photo)3D shape Templates2D Sha
STEAM: Sierpinski Triangle 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!The project includes three activity levels all which result in creating self-similar triangles which are then put together to make the large Sierpinski Triangle. Focusing on fractals (self-sim
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PreK - 8th
Tetris: STEM Challenge
This product can be used as a STEM center or as a small group "STEM challenge" to enhance teamwork, spatial concepts and problem solving skills. The product includes 3 levels of difficulty (difficult, medium, easy) so that you can differentiate for your students’ needs. Directions: Print and laminate the included iPad/ tablet. Next, print the leveled Tetris boards and cut by color group. Lastly, have students arrange the pieces to fit into the iPad/ tablet. This product is a great math enrichmen
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1st - 12th
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