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7th grade engineering thematic unit plans $10 and up
SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in:Â SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
IB MYP Phone Stand Unit
Statement of Enquiry: Designers find opportunities from markets and trends to influence the form and function of successful products.In this outstanding, creative scheme of work, students are given a brief to design a phone stand that benefits a particular user, retailer (client) and charity. Students research peoples interests (surveys, user persona) and apply this research to influence and justify the form and function of their own product. They make and evaluate various prototypes of their pr
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â IB MYP Design Units Bundle
Toothpick Bridge Building-Truss R' Us STEM project
The toothpick bridge building STEM project has a new spin. This resource includes a 30 page google document that can be edited for your classroom needs.Students form engineering groups and assign the following jobs: accountant, project manager, architect, and carpenter. Groups must work within the design constraints, including maintaining a budget. Classroom materials are minimal per group including: 500 toothpicks, small cup of wood glue, waxed paper, & graph paper. This is a highly
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
INTERNATIONAL DOT DAY BUNDLE Reading Writing STEM Art Games Research Activities
SAVE 50%!...This 67-page (+3 PowerPoints +Collaborative Poster) Dot Day MEGA Kit includes LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED (AND MORE!) to celebrate Dot Day (or WEEK!) with your students! Reading passage, CCSS-aligned questions with Answer Key, 6 writing prompts (2 narrative, 2 informative, 2 opinion), Revising & editing checklists, Online research activity, Art Activity, (with rubric) 8 Creation Stations (with PowerPoint), 8 STEM Challenges (with PowerPoint), 5 Just for Fun Games/Activities, 26
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
INTERNATIONAL DOT DAY | Reading Writing STEM Art Games Research Activities
This 29-page Dot Day Activity Kit includes LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED to celebrate Dot Day and have a Middle-Grades Fun Day in ELA with your students! Reading passage, CCSS-aligned questions with Answer Key, 2 informative writing prompts, Revising & editing checklists, Online research activity, Art Activity, (with rubric), a STEM Challenge, a Creativity Activity, a Coloring Sheet, Video Links, and Supply Request Letter are all included!What is Dot Day? International Dot Day is celebrated
Grades:
3rd - 12th
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Novel Study + STEAM
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. It bundlesThe Girl Who Drank the Moon Novel Study with STEAM packs about designing and making a machine with littleBits; creating your own paper; and making a flip book of Fyrian's growth.ABOUT THE NOVEL: Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizin
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Grades:
4th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
MYP Design Unit: Game Design
Have fun with your kiddos while you teach them the powerful grace of the design cycle. In this unit, students will follow the design cycle to produce a card game with a theme of a United Nations Global Sustainability Goal. In this IB design unit, criterion B and D are assessed. This unit comes with 9 lessons and 2 summative assessments templates that cover the following topics: -Selecting a topic (Interactive Lecture)-Analyzing existing solutions (Assignment and slides)-Learning Game Mechanics (
Grades:
7th - 9th
Simple Machines Invention Project: Research/Model/Presentation
New & Improved!!
This is an amazingly detailed project outline that will walk your students through the design, production, presentation and self-evaluation process of their own invention using simple machines! This will take your students through the whole Simple Machines unit on a self-guided tour with minimal prep for you!
Total Pages: 12.... Ready to Print!
*NOTE: margins must be set to narrow on Microsoft Word for this file to align/print properly
Package includes:
a. A research sh
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Hidden Worlds Thematic Unit BUNDLE
Digital at-home learning made easy! Combine a four-week unit on hidden worlds with four novel studies that look at hidden worlds and the portals used to get there.Included:Hidden Worlds 4-week unit: research and report writing, persuasive writing, narrative writing, STEAM *Includes lesson plans, resources, editable rubricsPeter Pan Novel StudyIron Hearted Violet Novel StudyThe Girl Who Drank the Moon Novel StudyCoraline Novel StudyMagonia Novel StudyAll objectives are aligned with the 2014 Natio
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Grades:
4th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Demystifying STEM: Using what you already have
STEM education efforts seek to increase student curiosity in and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It is a fact that science, math, technology, and engineering interrelate with each other all the time. It is difficult to teach one without involving one or more of the others. This book consists of four units with 24 STEM activities that have been developed around the student’s lifestyle and role at home, school, and in the community. For each unit, the instru
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Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
STEAM BUNDLE for Years 5 and 6
This resource is a BUNDLE (444 pages) of 18 STEAM packs that I have put together for Upper Key Stage 2 all following objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum of England.Some are pulled from other thematic packs, while others are sold as stand alone packs in the Connecting Curriculum shops, including textiles, evolution and adaptations, prototyping with littleBits and MakeyMakey, food technology and computer science with Scratch.You can check out all resources offered in my catalogue here: Co
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Grades:
5th - 7th
STEM Curriculum A Holistic Approach 6th 7th 8th
The STEM Program focuses on project based creativity, imagination, innovation ultimately preparing students for 21st century skills. best utilized with:
Internet Safety - Lesson 1
Internet Usage - Lesson 2
Creating Graphs in Excel - Lesson 4
What is STEM -Lesson 5
What is Technology and Science - Lesson 5
TV Window to the world - Lesson 6
Assembly Line benefits and contributions to society - Lesson 9
Tower STEM Challenge (assessment)
grade 7 Energy Efficient Mars Civilization STEM Challenge (as
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Viking Unit BUNDLE
Digital at-home learning made easy! Combine a half-term unit on Vikings with two novel studies that inform the class about Vikings during the unit.Included:On the Move 6-week unit: persuasive writing, narrative writing, research, STEM, explanation writing *Includes lesson plans, resources, editable rubricsThe Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable Fib Novel StudyViking Boy Novel StudyAll objectives are aligned with the 2014 National Curriculum of England, and connections to CCSS and NGSS are li
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
IB MYP Smart Toothbrush Product Design Unit
Pupils love being creative with this project which covers the entire design process of designing a physical smart toothbrush and an accompanying app, with the aim of encouraging and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The project does not include any coding, rather it is focused on the design process, critical thinking and communicating ideas, culminating in a physical prototype and a clickable digital prototype of an app.SOI: Scientific and technical innovation can be made by connecting physical a
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in:Â IB MYP Design Units Full Bundle
Valentine's STEAM Bundle
This bundle includes three different resources where children will prototype, design, make, and evaluate their own:Box of chocolatesMonster with persuasive dating profileInteractive candy gram using circuit stickersThis pack includes different graphic organizers, resources for lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and editable rubrics. It follows the 2014 National Curriculum of England and includes links to the NGSS and CCSS curriculum in the United States where appropriate.A digital cop
Grades:
4th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
New! Science Amplify Metabolism Unit 1.3 with video included
This is an easy way to teach amplify in an organized streamlined way without having to search and click back and forth.prep not needed addl. teacher guided instructional information available
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Grades:
7th - 8th
CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-4
The Mostly True Story of Jack Novel Study + STEAM
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill. It bundlesThe Mostly True Story of Jack Novel Study with STEAM packs about designing and making a book and a science investigation about corn.ABOUT THE NOVEL: Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. . . .When Jack is sent to Hazelwood, Iowa, to live with his strange aunt and uncle, he expects a summer of boredom. Little does he know that the peop
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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