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Engineering Common Core 5.MD.C.5 resources
STEM Oil Spill Challenge - Earth Day STEM Activity
Oil Spill STEM Activity - Great for Earth Day! Learn about the effects of an oil spill on the environment through a hands-on engineering challenge! The goal of this challenge is to clean up all of the oil from the feathers and from the water in the time provided. Students will work in teams to devise a plan to get the oil spill cleaned up in a specified time of work. Distance learning update: Activity has been updated to accommodate distance learning including instructions on creating a material
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ESS3-3
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Design a School Garden: STEM Project Guide
Design a school garden! Take your STEM or STEAM classroom or program to the next level with this in-depth engineering design STEM challenge. Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long-term school garden for growing vegetables and other plants. This creative and in-depth project is a great activity for your classroom or afterschool program! Designing a school garden is a multidisciplinary project where creative and crit
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
Build a Model House STEAM Activity-Measure Area, Perimeter, Volume and More!
Turn your classroom into a construction zone with this fun STEM measurement project! Measure length, width, height, area, perimeter, and volume using both standard and metric units. Video tutorials are included for self-directed or teacher-directed learning!This product includes the following:Teacher Materials:• 3rd Grade Common Core State Standards (those used in project) Overview with "I CAN" Statements• 4th Grade Common Core State Standards (those used in project) Overview with "I CAN" Statem
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Volume/STEM Activity: Build a Robot
This activity will provide your students with an engaging and visual hands-on math experience that reinforces the basic concepts of volume measurement!
In this activity, students will cut out and assemble an assortment of rectangular prisms, calculate their volume, and then use the cut out prisms to assemble a robot.
Here is my recommended list of materials students will need to complete this activity:
-Student Directions sheet (included in this resource)
-Rectangular Prisms sheets (included
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Grades:
5th - 6th
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STEM Spring Challenges! (Spring Break & Easter Activities)
Keep students motivated with the One Week Spring STEM Challenge! This activity is perfect to keep students learning during Spring Break or Easter holidays. This calendar is based on our popular Summer and Winter Break Activity Calendars. Activities are straightforward and accessible to students of all levels with little or no supplies needed. Activities provide hands-on learning that will ignite students’ curiosity in exploring the world around us. The daily activities will incorporate math conc
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Solar Oven STEM Project
This Solar Oven STEM project is adapted from John Spencer's Tiny House Maker Lab. All credit is given to him. I adapted his Tiny House Maker Lab into a 5th grade level task: building a functioning solar oven. Students love this STEM project because they get to make S'mores at the end. This project takes approximately 4 days (depending on the class). Please also download the Student Journal (FREE) which goes along with this project. The PowerPoint presentation goes along exactly with the Student
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
STEM Challenges BUNDLE for the Whole Year
STEM challenges featuring seasonal themes that keep your students learning and engaged for the entire school year. While these are designed for my 5th grade class, they work for multiple grade levels. These activities are tied to the Common Core Standards.This set is a growing bundle. As more challenges are added to this bundle, the price will increase!Included:Wet and Wild Water SlidePictures of the product in actionGetting started infoTeaching tipsWild water slide introduction (complete with a
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Volume STEM Challenge using Minecraft 5th, 6th, and 7th
Looking for a way to incorporate STEM into your math lesson? Do you need an extension activity for early finishers? Volumeville is a STEM challenge where students use their understanding of volume of rectangular prisms to build a town on Minecraft Education. Specifically, students are working on the following learning targets: Learning Target 1: I can solve for volume of rectangular prisms in real-world context.Learning Target 2: I can solve for composite volume in real-world context.When I used
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5th - 7th
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Summer STEM Challenge BUNDLE
In this summer themed STEM challenge bundle, your students will face the ultimate challenge! In this set they will create a pool with a specific volume that can hold water as well as creating a water slide that doesn't leak or fall over. The final challenge in this exciting set is to create a float and accessory for the peep to enjoy in the pool. This is an excellent way to keep the engagement high as you near the end of the school year. Included: Wet and Wild Water SlidePictures of the product
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Summer STEM Challenge Water Slide
This ready to go Summer themed STEM challenge is perfect for the end of the school year! This challenge incorporates volume, real life story problems, as well as an exciting building challenge for students.
Included:
Pictures of the product in action
Getting started info
Teaching tips
Wild water slide introduction (complete with a link to a video on creating water slides!)
Prototype design page
Materials page
Trial notes
Modifications page
Final model
Math page (including story problems, vol
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Summer STEM Challenge BUNDLE
Food Truck PBL
This PBL is geared towards individual projects, TAG and ALP passion projects or small group extensions during math. Students can be self-directed as they go through each step of research and design on their own. It involves a variety of writing structures, authentic research and development, quality questioning, website building, volume measurement and lots of real-world applications. Plus the material cost is basically free!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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STEM Pumpkin Chunkin Catapult
Students will use the Engineering Design Process to guide them through the construction on a pumpkin catapult.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Summer STEM Challenge Pool Party
This Summer Pool Party Challenge is a fun way to add STEM learning into your classroom. The challenge begins with an interesting video on volume to serve as a reminder and gets them interested in the project. Students plan, create, implement trials while taking data, and so much more in this challenge.
This STEM challenge pairs PERFECTLY with my Summer STEM Challenge Water Slide
Included:
Product in action photos
How to use page
Pool Party direction page
Materials list (for students to fil
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
Also included in: Summer STEM Challenge BUNDLE
Solar Heater Design Project
This design project, which covers 5th grade math and science standards, encourages students to create a box that will be the most efficient at heating up water. All students will need to receive the same clear plastic water container, but then design a box to go around it. They may design any size, and then use materials for the inside or the outside of the box that they believe will create the best environment for maximizing the sun’s energy to heat water. After building and designing the box,
Subjects:
Grades:
5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Ship a Chip!
This is a STEM oriented activity called Ship a Chip where students get to be engineers and think about product design, packaging design, and customer support. This activity can be extended or reduced based on time and group needs. Typically it takes around 2 class periods for 2nd-5th grades but would also be great for older grades. This has a short teacher guide and also a double sided student worksheet. With older students I like to add in more math but with younger grades we focus on the measu
Solar Oven STEM Project - Student Journal
This Solar Oven STEM project is adapted from John Spencer's Tiny House Maker Lab. All credit is given to him. I adapted his Tiny House Maker Lab into a 5th grade level task: building a functioning solar oven. Students love this STEM project because they get to make S'mores at the end. This project takes approximately 4 days (depending on the class). Please also download the PowerPoint presentation (FREE) which goes along with this project. The PowerPoint presentation goes along exactly with the
SPONGE CITY - ENGINEERING DESIGN
Students will understand the importance of water conservation and of the saying, “Every Drop Counts”, as they build a model city to capture water, not shed water, and will learn the difference between an aqua duct and an aquifer. Students will learn that when a city is built to harness water, store and reuse it, the architecture and design of that city will need to change. Students will learn the crucial importance of designing a waterproof city vs. a water capturing city, or rather, a “sponge
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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