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Engineering Common Core SL.3.1 resources
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
Grades:
K - 5th
Types:
Back to School STEM Activities Intro Booklet What is STEAM First Day of School
Are you looking for a way to introduce STEM to your class? This STEM introduction booklet is the perfect resource! Discuss the importance of science, technology, engineering, art, math, and the design process. The booklet is available in both English and Spanish, and it can be used in Google Slides or as a printable PDF.This booklet is a great way to start an open discussion with your students about STEM. It can help them to understand the different components of STEM and how they all work toget
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Build a Shelter STEM Project | STEM Survival Camp
You are sent off into the wild with limited supplies. You have to stay quite a few days, but need a safe place to sleep. How can you build a shelter that will withstand different types of weather? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore different weather patterns, shelter building tips, building a design and testing it under various conditions. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration while using the Engineering Design Process. Click here to re
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Weathering and Erosion Science Experiments | Water Erosion Solutions STEM
Erosion happens naturally in our world by wind, ice, water and more. How can you create a solution that helps reduce the impact of water erosion? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore the difference between weathering and erosion, water erosion invention inspiration, building a design and testing it using soil and water. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration.==========================================STEM Challenges are a great way to enco
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 2-ESS2-1
Also included in: STEM Challenges for 2nd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
STEAM Activities and Challenges Bundle
Go full STEAM ahead with this year-long bundle! Foster the five c's in your classroom. This includes creativity, collaboration, communication, citizenship, and critical thinking. Your students will love learning about relevant content. This STEM bundle (or STEAM bundle) is helpful for STEM/STEAM Fridays or STEM/STEAM Clubs. These Elementary STEM challenges align with the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). You'll have more than enough to do one STEM Activity per week. Most Challenges Inclu
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
The Wild Robot Novel Study Activities BUNDLE - STEM Activities - Questions
⭐Make sure to take a sneak peek at this amazing resource⭐The Wild Robot Novel Activities BUNDLE is everything you'll need as you read and teach the novel by Peter Brown. This resource is packed with three complete activities in one simple and easy-to-use bundle including a pre-reading activity, discussion questions, and an all-time student favorite—STEM challenges! This Wild Robot Bundle is extremely user-friendly and standard-aligned, making teaching this fun novel a breeze. Students will love
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Cardboard Game Ideas | Not a Box Lesson Plan
A box isn’t just a box. After reading the story Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, students will be inspired with cardboard game ideas and create a marble maze. By going through the Engineering Design Process, students will explore different types of forces, changes in direction and speed, create thoughtful game rules, receive feedback and modify their design. _______________________________Even as a K-5 STEM teacher, I still value the importance of reading and comprehension. With my STEM & Sto
Grades:
1st - 4th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
3rd Grade NGSS Project-Based Science | Science PBL | Life Cycles, Climate
This is a bundle of 4 PBL science units for 3rd grade. These 3-week project-based learning (science-focused) research-based units are the perfect way to teach reading, writing, research skills, and science in one engaging, real-world unit. Your students will use key standards, such as research, reading comprehension, and engineering design in a real-life scenario. The best part about PBL is that student choice and differentiation are built in!3rd Grade Driving Questions:How can I communicate inf
UPDATED Grade 3 Stability and Motion: Science of Flight Module
This purchase includes:• Launch Log [packet format]• NEWLY ADDED Worksheets for the entire Module• Vocabulary Cards for the entire Module• NEWLY ADDED Essential Questions Card/PosterThis purchase does not include:• Access to Inkling, PLTW Presentations, PLTW-made Materials, etc.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
NGSS:
3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
UPDATED Grade 3 Life Cycles & Survival Module
This purchase includes:• Launch Log [packet format]• NEWLY ADDED Worksheets for the entire Module• Vocabulary Cards for the entire Module• NEWLY ADDED Essential Questions Card/PosterThis purchase does not include:• Access to Inkling, PLTW Presentations, PLTW-made Materials, etc.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
NGSS:
3-LS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 3-LS1-1
Severe Weather Activities | Floods and Flooding Inventions STEM Challenge
Flooding can be an effect from severe weather like hurricanes, heavy rain and tsunamis. How can you create an invention that can prevent flooding? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore different floods that have impacted history, flood invention inspiration, building a design and testing it under flood conditions. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration.==========================================STEM Stations are a great way to encourage cre
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
Mini Golf STEM Challenge Cardboard Properties of Matter
How can you use different properties of materials to change the way a ball rolls? Mini Golf courses have many different elements that will speed up, slow down and even stop the ball. How can you design a mini golf game that uses different materials that change the direction of the ball? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about properties of materials and mini golf inspiration. With this information, you’ll plan, build, modify and test a mini golf design. ===========
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-PS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Challenges for 2nd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
STEAM Maker Challenge Bundle (A4 Size)
This bundle includes all you need for 6 STEAM explorations that can be used in a variety of ways, from 15-20 minute challenges to multiple-period explorations.Designed with emerging English language speakers in mind, these activities can be used in mainstream as well as bilingual classrooms, with learners from various backgrounds and levels of ability. They are also designed to introduce or reinforce different language objectives, such as the use ofComparative and superlative adjectivesSimple pr
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 2-PS1-2
...
STEM Magnet Activities MagLev Trains Makerspace Challenge
How can you show magnetic forces in action and use it make transportation even faster? MagLev, or Magnetic Levitation trains use this type of technology to move. How can you design a MagLev train that travels in a theme park? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about magnets and their forces, MagLev trains along with theme park inspiration. With this information, you’ll plan, build, modify and test a MagLev train and a theme park for it to travel through.STEM Challen
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-4
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
STEAM Maker Challenge Bundle (8.5 x 11)
This bundle includes all you need for 6 STEAM explorations that can be used in a variety of ways, from 15-20 minute challenges to multiple-period explorations.Designed with emerging English language speakers in mind, these activities can be used in mainstream as well as bilingual classrooms, with learners from various backgrounds and levels of ability. They are also designed to introduce or reinforce different language objectives, such as the use ofComparative and superlative adjectivesSimple pr
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 2-PS1-2
...
UPDATED Grade 3 Programming Patterns Module
This purchase includes:• Launch Log [packet format]• NEWLY ADDED Worksheets for the entire Module• Vocabulary Cards for the Entire Module• NEWLY ADDED Essential Questions Card/PosterThis purchase does not include:• Access to Inkling, PLTW Presentations, PLTW-made Materials, etc.
Grades:
3rd
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
UPDATED Grade 3 Environmental Changes Module
This purchase includes:• Launch Log [packet format]• NEWLY ADDED Worksheet Format for each Activity in the Module• Vocabulary Cards for the entire Module• NEWLY ADDED Essential Questions Card/PosterThis purchase does not include:• Access to Inkling, PLTW Presentations, PLTW-made Materials, etc.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-2
...
Weather for 3rd Graders STEM Project | Green Screen Video
How does the weather and climate change in different locations in the world? Understanding this information helps inform people when and where they might want to travel to a place. How can you create a short video to inform others about the weather and climate from a location in the world? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about one location in the world and its weather and climate for each season and what people like to do for fun in this place. With this informat
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-ESS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
Wild Animals Activity | Protect the Food | STEM Survival Camp
You are sent off into the wild with limited supplies. You have to stay quite a few days and need to keep your food safe so that weather and animals can’t get to it. How can you create an invention that will keep your food safe while camping? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore current inventions for storing food, wild animal characteristics that impact invention design, plan, create and modify your invention prototype. This is one of 6 units I taught in my K-5 STEM cl
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Camping Theme Lesson Plans | Bundle | STEM Survival Camp
Marble Maze Building Makerspace or Library Center
This makerspace center is an easy, low-prep way to give your students the opportunity to create and build using marble maze building sets.This center includes both printable and digital materials to use. Library makerspace centers make it easy and affordable to start a makerspace (or maker space) in your school library, media center, or public library.Product Contents:Editable center sign in Microsoft PowerPoint .pptx file and Google Slides formats with "We will" statements for student direction
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Elementary and Middle School Makerspace BUNDLE!
Natural Disaster Lesson Plans | Green Screen STEM Project
What are some of Earth’s events that naturally happen quickly? While humans can contribute to some of these events, most are considered natural disasters. How can you create a short video to inform others about a natural disaster? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about one natural disaster but learning about how it happens, where it happens and what people should do to stay safe. With this information, you’ll create a script and short green screen video and edit w
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-ESS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Challenges for 2nd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
Roller Coaster STEM Potential and Kinetic Energy Roller Coaster
How can you show gravity, potential and kinetic energy in action? Roller coasters use these concepts to create thrilling experiences for the people riding the ride! How can you design a roller coaster that a marble can go through? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about gravity, potential and kinetic energy along with roller coaster inspiration. With this information, you’ll plan, build, modify and test a roller coaster design.======================================
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
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)
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