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Engineering Common Core SL.1.4 resources
1st Grade NGSS Life Science STEM Curriculum Complete Unit! (1-LS1)(1-LS3)
This integrated 1st grade STEM curriculum unit is perfect for exploring all of the Next Generation Science and Engineering Standards (NGSS) for life science. This fun and engaging unit is full of science investigations, engineering challenges, integrated ELA and math activities (CCSS), technology components, and a number of other useful STEM resources!With easy-to-follow lesson plans this unit provides a fluid scope and sequence to guide teachers through the Kindergarten Next Generation Life sci
Subjects:
Grades:
1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
...
Communicating with Light & Sound Lesson + Engineering STEM Challenge (1-PS4-4)
In these FUN and engaging inquiry- based engineering activities students get to explore how humans use light to communicate! With step-by-step lessons plans you'll be able to guide your students through a true STEM learning experience and help foster creativity and problem solving as students work through the Engineering Design Process! Students love Engineering and its a great way to help students develop 21st century learning skills. Your students will have a blast and be fully engage througho
Subjects:
Grades:
1st
Types:
NGSS:
1-PS4-4
Biomimicry STEM Project Stop Motion Animation 1st Grade
Nature is the best place for inspiration. In fact, many inventions that we use and are being created are inspired by nature. How can you create a stop motion video to show a human problem being solved by biomimicry? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about different inventions inspired by nature.With this information, you’ll create a script, props and stop motion animation video to create an invention that uses biomimicry to solve a human problem. ==================
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
1-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 1st Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
STEAM / STEM Challenge - Toy Invention Design Project Unit Plan & Handout
All kids love toys! This is a unit plan (4 lessons) for a STEM / STEAM challenge where students get to design or invent their own toys, using their imagination. This is perfect for students in the lower elementary grades (grades 1-3). The slides will guide the class, lesson by lesson!What will students learn and do?Students get introduced to how engineers think using a basic version of the engineering design process (ask, imagine, plan, create, reflect).They learn about how engineers start by lo
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-PS1-2
...
Communicative Activities (for STEAM Maker Challenge Cards) (A4 Size)
STEAM Maker Challenge Cards Extension: Communicative Activities for Language DevelopmentBe sure to download the FREE Teacher Guide!These activities are further expansions of the STEAM Maker Challenge Cards.* They focus on developing oracy, design skills, critical thinking, and teamwork, alongside STEAM skills. After learners construct something--alone or in groups--they are guided to look closely at the product and think carefully about the experience. These tasks are followed by an interactive
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
, 2-PS1-2
...
Also included in: STEAM Maker Challenge Bundle (A4 Size)
Communicative Activities (for STEAM Maker Challenge Cards) (8.5 x 11)
STEAM Maker Challenge Cards Extension: Communicative Activities for Language DevelopmentBe sure to download the FREE Teacher Guide!These activities are further expansions of the STEAM Maker Challenge Cards.* They focus on developing oracy, design skills, critical thinking, and teamwork, alongside STEAM skills. After learners construct something--alone or in groups--they are guided to look closely at the product and think carefully about the experience. These tasks are followed by an interactive
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
, 2-PS1-2
...
Also included in: STEAM Maker Challenge Bundle (8.5 x 11)
Weather Kindergarten Lesson | STEM Stop Motion Animation
Meteorologists use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time. How can you create a stop motion video to show weather patterns in your area? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll learn about different types of weather and collect data about the weather each day. With this information, you’ll create a script, props and a stop motion animation video to show the weather that happened each day.==========================================STEM Cha
Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-ESS2-1
Also included in: Kindergarten STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Simple Machines Unit for Grades 1 to 3
Need something to liven up your scientific study of simple machines beyond pictures in books? Need hands-on exposures? Need examples of basic tools and how they are used in the world? This unit can supplement your existing curriculum or stand alone as an introductory or basic resource. The teaching suggestions and great visual materials would, also, make a great unit at year’s end or adaptation for distance learning. The PBL project would work as homework or a classroom based assignment, too. He
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-3
...
First Grade STEM: Engineering
Twenty-two engineering lessons! Each lesson includes student record sheets, photographs of student work, supply list, correlated read aloud, word bank, and teaching tips. All lessons are fully editable by purchaser, and can also easily be used for kindergarten and second grade. In addition to the lessons, I've included a printable graphic of the engineering cycle, a letter to ask parents for materials, a list of clickable links for even more engineering ideas, and a pacing guide. I created t
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
STEM: 1st Grade NGSS Lab and Engineering Challenge: Sound
This packet includes a science lab on how sound is created and an engineering challenge that follows the Engineering Design Loop incorporated in a student work-booklet. It includes a lab description for the teacher, hand signals to teach the scientific method, examples of student hypotheses, the lab question with Next Generation Science Standards and Cross Cutting Concepts to post on the wall, and a lab notes handout with illustration box. This lesson was designed around 1st grade NGSS, but coul
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
Gizmos Galore - Learning to Invent
Learning to Invent is a package of instructional materials for children in Grades K and 1. It is designed to be used by classroom teachers or extracurricular activity leaders who want to introduce young children to basic principles of inventing and design in a project-based format. The program includes an Introduction for teachers, six session guides, supplementary worksheets, an Inventor's Notebook, and a rubric and individual student score sheet for those who want to use the materials as part
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Grade 1 Animated Storytelling Module Resources
This purchase includes:• Vocabulary Cards for the entire Module• NEWLY ADDED Essential Questions Card/PosterThis purchase does NOT include:• Launch Log [PLTW K-2 has launch logs similar to the ones I make]• Access to Inkling, Presentations, Teacher Materials, etc.
Subjects:
Grades:
1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Also included in: Grade 1 PLTW Vocabulary Bundle
Winter Sports Mini Stem Unit
Students get to use STEM concepts to build a Winter Game Activity, Winter Olypmics 2022, out of recyclables and other simple supplies (you know the ones we always have on hand). Their goal is to be able to play it with other students. This unit is fully DIGITAL and PRINTABLE. ** STEM part (building of it) is not digital. But students can easily do the STEM project at home using recyclables. This unit includes an optional presentation at the end which is great for practice on speaking and listen
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
Genius Hour Lesson Planning Materials
Welcome to Genius Hour where kids take time to focus on their passions. This packet includes Covers sheets for packets and reports, brainstorming and topic sheets, research calendar and planners, sketch pages,weekly and monthly planning sheets, project proposal, I wonder page, KWHLAQ sheet, outline, notes, questions, facts, and sources sheet.
Grades:
1st - 6th
Trap the Leprechaun Project!
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by learning how to trap a Leprechaun! Use this project in class and/or as a homework activity.
Subjects:
Grades:
1st
Research Mobiles - STEAM Guide (Free)
ACCESS WITH OUR HANDY ONLINE LEADER PORTAL! Investigate how making can ignite literacy, research and data analysis across grades and content areas. Students explore the topic of your choosing and synthesize their discoveries through kinetic mobile making. Their creative journey activates fun, holistic learning ~ visual art, engineering, physical science, the design process, literacy, social studies, and statistics. This project uses basic and repurposed materials and is great for small group col
Subjects:
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
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