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Science Common Core 2.G.A.1 resources
STEM Challenge: Build Toothpick Structures
These 24 toothpick STEM structure cards help kids develop abstract thinking, engineering, 2d and 3d shape recognition and shape knowledge.-----------------------------> Bundle with all of our STEM challenges and SAVE! <-----------------------------After building each shape, children take their learning one step further and label the number of vertices and edges. The STEM structure cards are perfect for engineers from preschool to second grade!Just grab a box of toothpicks and a container o
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Year of STEM Challenges
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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K - 2nd
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K-2-ETS1-2
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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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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Martin Luther King Jr. Day STEM Activity with Writing Extension
Martin Luther King Jr. (Integrated Math, Reading, and Writing Activities Included!)Students receive a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. giving facts about his life and instructing students to create a podium that he will use to deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. A fun and engaging MLK Day activity!Includes writing pages for students to write about their dreams. Math activities are included as well that cover geometry standards including 2D and 3D shapes, shape attributes (faces, edges,
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1st - 5th
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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: Winter STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle
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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K - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 4-ESS1-1
, 3-LS4-1
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Building 3D Solid Shapes Activity Faces, Edges, Vertices STEM for 4th, 5th, 6th
These 3D Solid Shapes STEM task card activity help your 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th students develop their geometry skills by finding faces, edges and vertices. Students complete the recording sheet after building and identify faces, edges, and vertices for each 3 dimensional, solid shape. This resource includes task cards for building 10 solid shapes using marshmallow and toothpicks.Materials Needed:⭐Toothpicks⭐Marshmallows / play doughOR substitute for holiday/seasonal twist- use jelly beans, gummies
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3rd - 6th
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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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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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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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Winter STEM Activities BUNDLE January STEAM Challenges No Prep Sled Snowflakes
These Winter STEM Activities are great for engaging your students. LOW PREP for any elementary classroom! Activities come with a GOOGLE slideshow, read aloud story & more! Infuse math skills with the response sheets.What’s Included in the Winter Stem Challenges Bundle:5 fun & simple activities all Winter themed and LOW PREP for your convenience!Winter STEM Activity 1: Build a Sled for the Slopes STEM ChallengeIt’s Winter! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Challenge students to creat
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K - 4th
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Makerspace Legos Challenge Task Cards Shapes Designs | Math Geometry STEM
Looking for Lego Challenge task cards for your Makerspace Lab, STEM/STEM, classroom or Lego Club? This resource includes 24 fun to create Shape Themed Challenges! Your students will love working on their engineering, creativity & problem solving skills as they work on designs using squares, rectangles, pyramids, hexagons, diamonds and more!This activity set was designed with younger students in mind- K through Gr. 2. Cards are available in 2 formats - color and black & white. 4 Blank Ca
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PreK - 2nd
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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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
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
2nd Grade Math - Language - Science Sorts for Interactive Notebooks BUNDLE
This is a bundled resource with my best selling sorts for 2nd grade. Inside this sorting activities resource you will find 2nd Grade Math - Language - Science Sorts for Interactive Notebooks BUNDLE. Here's everything that is included in the 2nd Grade Math - Language - Science Sorts for Interactive Notebooks BUNDLE:Grammar Sorts -->These 36 grammar sorts are a perfect supplement for your literacy block. They are differentiated and can be easily used in many ways:•Literacy centers•Small group i
Fractals and Patterns and Shapes in Nature Activity
This will get students thinking about fractals and patterns in nature. It will get students thinking in new ways about the natural world around them.Are you looking for a meaningful activity to do in outside with your students?This patterns activity will work for many grade levels. And, it will get them all thinking.Looking for fractals and patterns in nature can be integrated with math and art.Included are:- a poster of Benoit Mandelbrot, the scientist/mathematician who discovered and coined
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3rd - 6th
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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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Snowzilla Activities, Reading comprehension, winter
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your 1st or 2nd graders?This a great companion to the picture book "Snowzilla." These are the perfect, lo-prep activities to do with your class on the first day back from winter break. ALL the activities are Common Core aligned and they target several subjects, concepts, and skills . ❄️INCLUDED IN THIS DOWNLOAD:Reading Comprehension lapbook: retelling, story elements, character traits, and vocabulary.Language cut and paste: Verbs and nouns cu
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1st - 2nd
Lima Bean Experiment
Students will grow a Lima Bean in a ziplock bag to answer the question, "What does a plant need to grow?". The project takes 7-10 days and includes activities like observing, recording data, measurement, graphing, and predicting. Students love growing something of their own and taking it home to their families.
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1st - 3rd
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