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Problem solving laboratories for special education
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Dinosaurs and Fossils ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer some Dinosaurs!Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like dinosaurs and fossils!This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solutions
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Investigating Insects~ Set of Six!
Get ready to engineer some creepy crawly insects!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like insects!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solution
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Sensational Sharks ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to have your own Shark Week!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like Sharks!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solutions will work!
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3rd - 6th
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Potential and Kinetic Energy Phet Skate Park Simulation Digital UDL Lesson
Lesson on potential and kinetic energy using google slides and the phet energy skate park simulation. Interactive lesson with NGSS science standards made accessible for all students with UDL principals. Includes multiple slides of questions on the relationship of kinetic and potential energy and the affect of mass and height on kinetic and potential energy. Product also includes an extension activity.
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
Digging For Fossils - A Cookie Excavation Experiment
Students will love acting as an archaeologist as they dig for fossils during this experiment! Using simple materials such as toothpicks and cookies, students will learn what it's like to excavate fossils. Students will formulate a hypothesis, collect data, and develop conclusions using this experiment aligned with both Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Teaching tips included! A great resource and hands-on lesson for any fossil unit.
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3rd - 6th
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Fairy Tales Set #2 ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to do some more Fairy Tale engineering! This is my second set of engineering challenges inspired by fairy tales!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with fairy tales, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on them!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are
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3rd - 6th
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Engineering Design Process Template
STEM programs focus a lot of it's learning on the Engineering Design Process. This Engineering Design Process Sheet will allow students to become Engineers in the classroom. They will be able to Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve a Prototype for any Unit that they are learning about.(Made in a Microsoft Word document so that teachers can edit questions, etc.) If you would prefer an Engineering Design Process:Engineering Design Process- Digital Notebook- Click Here! Word Search- Click here!C
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Engineering Design Process- Bundle
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Marvelous Magnets~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer some serious magnetic attraction!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like magnets!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different so
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3rd - 6th
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STEAM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Ocean Animals: From Trash to Treasure
Most elementary teachers are interested in integration of the arts with the content areas, so I have decided to create some STEAM challenge packs more focused on art. This one is based on the amazing Washed Ashore exhibit in which artists make treasure from ocean trash.
The five STEAM Challenges included in this pack are:
Plastic Bag Jellyfish Challenge
Plastic Bottle Starfish Challenge
Pop Can Eel Challenge
Scrap Paper Clown Fish Challenge
Cardboard Tube Octopus Challenge
This engineering c
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3rd - 6th
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STEM Engineering Challenge Pack ~ Human Body Challenges ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer the body!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable about themes, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific themes, like the human body!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers, many different solutions will work!
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas STEM ~ STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer all things Christmas (reindeer, trees, sleighs, ornaments, and gingerbread houses)!Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like Christmas!This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There
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3rd - 6th
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Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion: ELLIPSE LAB - Loaded with FUN!
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"REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
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Come explore a beautiful marriage of both math and science. Experience Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion like you never have before. In this dynamic ellipse lab, content and inquiry go hand in hand. This special creation is applicable to many ability and grade levels. This is lab is LOADED starting with Kepler’s 3 Laws. First, the law of ellipses. Second, the law of equal areas. Third, th
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6th - 12th
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Plate Tectonics LAB: Yummy! Eat Your Boundaries (Graham Crackers and Fluff)
EAT YOUR PLATES AND YOUR ASTHENOSPHERE! Graham cracker based plate tectonic boundaries lab. A dynamic tutorial on plate boundaries and model manipulation that kids LOVE! You can eat it too!
Loaded with COLOR and IMAGES!
This is a can’t miss lab! You can use the images provided OR use actual lab materials to mimic the lab procedure provided!
This lab includes the following:
-Terminology-asthenosphere, lithosphere, plate boundaries, convergent, divergent, transform, oceanic crust, contin
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Diffusion and Osmosis Lab Packets
This lab packet contains 1 Skittles Diffusion Experiment and 1 Osmosis Gummy Bear Experiment. Both labs come with a list of materials needed, directions for setting it up, student data sheets to record their observations, and questions about each lab. The packet also includes quick wrap-up notes for the following day to reinforce the skills discovered in the experiment. and eliminate any misconceptions. I'm also including a FREE watercolors diffusion art activity that both you and your studen
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9th - 12th
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STEM Hands On Science Investigation: Tower Teamwork
This science task is geared toward helping the intermediate level student develop key STEM science/engineering “thinking skills” that will help build the foundation for more complicated scientific learning. As new science standards are implemented, “engineering” plays a prominent role—even at the elementary level!This lesson can be done in one class period or stretched out over 2 if you wish to allow the students to go back and revisit their towers. If you do, use the “extension” page to recor
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Castles & Knights ~ Set of Five!
Who doesn't love Castles and Knights? It is a perfect topic for kids of all ages!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like castles and knights
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no rig
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3rd - 7th
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Plate Tectonics, Pangaea, and Continental Drift LAB (Lots of FUN!!!)
Meet the ULTIMATE Super Continent! PANGAEA! Come experience an in depth tutorial and analysis of Pangaea, its before, and its after. A variety of fun and engaging pedagogical strategies (some you have probably never seen before) including:
-Puzzle construction: colorful with differentiated symbols to denote: cynognathus fossils, mesosaurus fossils, glossopteris fossils, lystrosaurus fossils, young rock formations, and old rock formations. Using a color/symbol coded key students assemble a
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Moon Phases and OREO COOKIE LAB. A TRUE HIT! (Yummy for ALL Ages!)
PROCEEDS BENEFIT CHARITY:
"REACH INC."-EMPOWERING ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.reachinc.org
Understanding moon phases can be difficult for a student or adult of any age. According to the NSF (National Science Foundation), the conceptual process of the moon phases is "misunderstood by adults just as much as children." Well, it's time to fix that! And you can use OREO cookies to help you.
This is a comprehensive activity and mini-lab in which students investigate the dynamic yet pr
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3rd - 8th
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Engineering: Straw Rockets
Straw Rockets are quick, simple and lots of fun for the students. This STEM activity takes about one hour to assemble and one hour for outside launching fun. This engineering activity can be used from grade 3 through 12. This lesson could also be used in March for Women's History Month as an activity to go along with the Sally Ride story. The headings include: Teacher Notes, Introduction, Materials, Procedure, Patterns, Pictures and Conclusion Questions.
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3rd - 12th
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Winter STEM ~ STEM Engineering Challenges Pack ~ Set of Five!
Get ready to engineer all things Winter (snowmen, snowflakes, and sleds)!
Most elementary teachers are more comfortable and knowledgeable with theme topics, so I have decided to create STEM challenge packs based on specific ones, like Winter!
This engineering challenge activity pack is one of many that I have created to use in my classroom! I sometimes place these challenges, one per table, and the students rotate around the room in order to complete them. There are no right or wrong answers,
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3rd - 6th
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Mealworm Activity Pack
Teaching about life cycles?
Mealworms allow students to observe complete metamorphosis - little set-up, easy to do and minimal care required. You will need a few months to complete - but checking once a week on these little guys would be effective.
Mealworms go through stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Your students will love watching the worms change to pupas and then into adults (beetles).
TWO FORMATS
1. designed for students with significant cognitive disabilities - icons for observations
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1st - 5th
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Hands On Science STEM Investigations: Help Harry!
Interested in finding a fun way to work some cooperative learning AND science and engineering into your day? This 30 minute lesson is a great way to do just that--and it's free! Everything you need to get started is included in this one page freebie--with the added bonus of a link to a blog post with full color photos and details about how to do it.When students work through the process of planning, building, testing, and revising--they really are acting like engineers. It's a fun way to get
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4th - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Scientific Method Sequence Display Cards
Scientific Method Display Cards are a great resource to reinforce the steps to the scientific method as well a supporting science fair project work. This product includes two levels of differentiation, one with picture supported text and the second level using sight word sentences. It is recommended that the two levels are attached to the front and back of sentence strips to create an instructional activity that can be used to address diverse literacy skills within the same activity.Scientific
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K - 12th
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LAB - Sugar Cube Weathering
This is a lab activity about physical weathering (abrasion) and chemical weathering (affect of temperature and surface area). Students will model abrasion by shaking sugar cubes in plastic bottles. Then, they will model the affect of temperature on weathering and the affect of surface area on weathering using sugar cubes.
This is a fun lab for students and is very cost-effective. I have students bring in empty gatorade bottles (they are hard plastic and will last for years). Sugar cubes can be
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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