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Engineering Common Core W.5.6 resources
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
Caine's Arcade Unit Plan (PBL and Design Thinking combined)
This is an epic unit created around the inspiring story of Caine and the cardboard arcade phenomenon he created that swept the country. This unit will get your kids thinking, creating, and building with household materials and nothing more! Everything and I mean everything is included in this unit to have your students create their own arcade games based around empathy and the design needs of others. In our case, it was 2nd graders. You can adjust for any grade level! Twelve different lessons wi
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
Rube Goldberg Machines - 11 day Cross-Curricular Unit
Rube Goldberg was an engineer-turned-cartoonist who is best known for his comics with ridiculous inventions. This action-packed, engaging, and rigorous unit includes 11 days worth of lessons where students learn about Rube Goldberg, create a comic, design and build a machine, and then create a video summary of their learning. These lessons are great for gifted/talented students!This download includes: 11 detailed lessonsDifferentiated student worksheetsDesign Brief TemplateAn video alternative f
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Area and Perimeter Activity | Holiday STEM Activity | Wrapping Paper Math
What is the best wrapping method that uses the least amount of paper? You will choose one of three methods available and learn how to wrap a gift. Then, you will unwrap the gift and find the area and perimeter of the paper, while comparing your results with your classmates. This quick, Engineering Design Process challenge is a great way to apply mathematical skills and also learn the art of wrapping a gift. =========================Use the Engineering Design Process in the holiday STEM activity
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Technology & STEM Activities for Winter | Bundle
Human Impact on the Environment | 3D Printing STEM Project
How are humans impacting the Earth and its natural resources? While many of Earth’s events happen naturally, many problems are man-made. How can you design an invention that helps people correct, prevent or protect Earth's resources and environment? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about common problems humans are causing to the environment and some solutions that already exist. With this information, you’ll create a 3D printed model of an invention that will help
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
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
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
How to Make a Cardboard Airplane | Makerspace STEM Challenge
STEM & Makerspace activity with student Engineering Design Process printables & digital pages to learn how to make a cardboard airplane. =========================Use the Engineering Design Process to learn how to make a cardboard airplane:STEM Challenge CardEngineering Design Task Checklist to keep track of workInspiration & Research Video Links Planning Sheet Cardboard airplane video tutorial (YouTube & non-YouTube versions included)Draw or insert images of final design sheetQue
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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: Makerspace Activity | Bundle for Getting Started
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
STEM & STEAM Famous People & Leaders Flipbook Research Activity
Looking for a hands-on research activity about famous STEM people and leaders? This easy-prep project is a great activity for your STEM, STEAM lab or STEM classroom lessons. Students will research and write about STEM/STEAM leader's Early Life, Education, Adult Life, Accomplishments and the career their person worked in. The flipbook is very interactive and looks great hung up upon completion. Students can also present and share what they learned with their classmates. Great for independent res
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Rube Goldberg Lesson | Ecosystems | STEM Challenge
In every ecosystem, there is the movement of matter between plants, animals, decomposers and the environment. How can you create a Rube Goldberg machine to show this movement? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore different ecosystems and food webs, Rube Goldberg Machine inspiration, building a design and testing it to show the transfer of energy from one living thing to the next. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration.=====================
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 5-LS2-1
, 5-PS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Circuit Lesson Plans | 3D Printing STEM Project
What kind of device can you create that will convert energy from one form to another? A simple paper circuit can show how energy is transferred from the battery, through the light, and back to the battery. With this concept in mind, How can you design a night light that includes a custom design, a light and an on/off switch? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll learn about the invention of light and circuits and explore night light designs. With this information, you’ll creat
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Build a Car STEM Challenge Energy Transfer and Collisions
Exploring speed, energy and how energy is transferred can be a little tricky. However, you can explore these concepts through race cars. How can you design a race car that can roll through a race? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about energy transfer and speed along with race car inspiration. With this information, you’ll plan, build, modify and test a race car design.STEM Challenges are a great way to encourage creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. W
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-3
, 4-PS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Build a City STEM Challenge | Reading a Map Worksheets
Civil Engineers use GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to help them collect data about the Earth’s surface to make decisions when designing structures in a space. How can you plan and develop a community based on Earth’s features in an area? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore the role of civil engineers, what GIS is, and various digital maps, including Google Earth, of famous locations in the world. You will then build a city out of clay on a grid based on data, th
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS2-2
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
How to Create a Board Game | STEM Survival Camp
You are sent off into the wild with limited supplies. You have to stay quite a few days, but have no access to electricity or electronics. How can you create a game from the land to stay entertained? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore board game design, rule creation, building a game and testing it by receiving peer feedback. Print-and-go and digital resources to guide creation and exploration while using the Engineering Design Process. This is one of 6 units I taugh
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Project Ideas for 3rd Grade | Growing Year Long Bundle
Hand Sewing Makerspace Project Hiking Backpack STEM Survival Camp
You are sent off into the wild with limited supplies. You have to stay quite a few days and need to ensure you have all of the essentials that will fit in your backpack. How can you invent a purposeful hiking backpack that can be used in the wilderness? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore hiking backpack essentials, learn basic sewing skills, and create a prototype of your design.Click HERE to listen to a podcast episode all about STEM Survival Camp.This is one of 6 u
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Camping Theme Lesson Plans | Bundle | STEM Survival Camp
Earth's Spheres STEM Stop Motion Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere
Earth has many spheres that interact with each other: the hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. Likewise, we have a limited amount of water on Earth and different ways that it is used. How can you create a stop motion video to teach about Earth’s spheres, how they interact and how much water is on Earth? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about Earth’s spheres, how they interact with one another and how water is distributed on Earth. With this informatio
Grades:
4th - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
5-ESS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 5-ESS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
What is Space Trash | Space Junk Video Production STEM Lesson
While pollution problems are affecting natural resources here on Earth, we are also polluting the skies. In fact, objects that are sent up into space don’t always come back down. They stay in the Earth’s orbit and is causing a problem in the space environment. How can you create a short video to inform others about the effects of space junk?By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore what space junk is, why it is a problem, the effects and solutions. With this information, yo
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-1
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Podcast Lesson Plan | All About Light Pollution STEM Activity
Are the stars in our sky disappearing? Why are human and animal sleep patterns disrupted? There is a type of pollution out there that is less commonly talked about, but it just as damaging to our world; light pollution. By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll explore what light pollution is, the different types, the effects and solutions. With this information, you’ll create a podcast, as a citizen scientist, about this topic and help promote change with our actions. Print-and-g
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
5-ESS1-2
, 5-ESS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 5th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Makey Makey | Scratch | STEM Activity | Spooky | Fall | Poetry
Makey Makey and Scratch Spooky Fall Poetry Activity is perfect for student led interdisciplinary learning. Encourage clear creative writing with the power of innovative engineering! Designed specifically for 5th to 8th grade students, this is a student led project where teachers should aid with building as needed, but allow students to work independently or in pairs. Overall Objective: The Overall objective is to allow creativity and critical thinking while students compose a poem and create a
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Tsunami STEM Activity Learning About Waves Stop Motion Animation
Tsunamis are tracked and measured with specific tools to help learn more about the event and warn others about them. How can you create a stop motion video to teach others about tsunamis and how they are measured? By going through the Engineering Design Process, you’ll research about tsunamis and how they are measured and tracked, learn how tsunamis form and explore impactful tsunami events that have happened in history. With this information, you’ll create a script, props and stop motion animat
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 4th Grade STEM Project Ideas | Growing Year Long Bundle
Ancient Egypt STEAM Project
Above you will find the guidelines and rubric for my Ancient Egypt STEAM Project. There are two parts to this project: 1. A research essay. 2. An engineering/art replica.Students will do their research in the classroom and at home over a three week period. I have them all do their replicas at home. I have set deadlines throughout the three weeks for their rough draft #1 and #2, revising times with peers, editing, and finding credible sources to add to their essay and bibliography.Included is the
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
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