STEAMy GATE 4th 5th 6th PYRAMIDS Unit
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Grade Levels
4th - 7th
Resource Type
Standards
CCSS5.MD.A.1
CCSS7.G.B.6
CCSSRI.5.1
CCSSRI.5.2
CCSSRI.5.7
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- Word Document File
Pages
44 pages
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Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher notes, bunches of ready-to-print activity sheets, photos, sample answers, and everything you need to begin today! Oh, yes . . . and Common Core State Standards included.
Primary Source Photo Analysis: Introduce the unit with a photo from the United States Library of Congress. Can students build background and make inferences from the photo?
Short Research Project/Fortune Tellers: Students conduct a bit of research, write summaries, and complete an engineering task while making calculations to produce a creative fortune teller product. (I told you it was STEAMy with reading and writing . . .)
Marble Mazes: Students make marble maze puzzles to simulate pyramid passages. Fun, creative, and challenging . . . kids were skipping recess.
The Sphinx Riddle Challenge—Math Version: Math scaling/ratios with a primary source photo.
Pyramidion Design Challenge: a 3D blueprint and STEM challenge with geometry as the main focus.
The Afterlife: Crafting, social-emotional education, metaphor creation, and a strong public speaking activity all rolled together. The public speaking activity includes an organizational template, tips and tricks, and an evaluation rubric.
Hieroglyphics: We can’t leave out hieroglyphics! Students learn about hieroglyphics in a non-fiction reading and writing task requiring inferences and close reading about the Rosetta Stone. Students then play Egyptian scholars as they create translations for a hieroglyphic panel.
Pyramid Carry-Case and Cartouches: We start to wrap up our unit by creating cartouches (with more higher order thinking skills involved) which we place into our pyramid carrying cases.
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher notes, bunches of ready-to-print activity sheets, photos, sample answers, and everything you need to begin today! Oh, yes . . . and Common Core State Standards included.
Primary Source Photo Analysis: Introduce the unit with a photo from the United States Library of Congress. Can students build background and make inferences from the photo?
Short Research Project/Fortune Tellers: Students conduct a bit of research, write summaries, and complete an engineering task while making calculations to produce a creative fortune teller product. (I told you it was STEAMy with reading and writing . . .)
Marble Mazes: Students make marble maze puzzles to simulate pyramid passages. Fun, creative, and challenging . . . kids were skipping recess.
The Sphinx Riddle Challenge—Math Version: Math scaling/ratios with a primary source photo.
Pyramidion Design Challenge: a 3D blueprint and STEM challenge with geometry as the main focus.
The Afterlife: Crafting, social-emotional education, metaphor creation, and a strong public speaking activity all rolled together. The public speaking activity includes an organizational template, tips and tricks, and an evaluation rubric.
Hieroglyphics: We can’t leave out hieroglyphics! Students learn about hieroglyphics in a non-fiction reading and writing task requiring inferences and close reading about the Rosetta Stone. Students then play Egyptian scholars as they create translations for a hieroglyphic panel.
Pyramid Carry-Case and Cartouches: We start to wrap up our unit by creating cartouches (with more higher order thinking skills involved) which we place into our pyramid carrying cases.
Total Pages
44 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
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Other
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Standards
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CCSS5.MD.A.1
Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system (e.g., convert 5 cm to 0.05 m), and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems.
CCSS7.G.B.6
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.
CCSSRI.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSSRI.5.2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
CCSSRI.5.7
Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
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