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Free 1st grade science resources for GATE
STEM for the 100th Day of School {FREE!}
FREE STEM Stations for the 100th Day of School!
Set up a STEMtastic 100th day for your little engineers with the following materials:
Page 3: Teacher Tips
Pages 4-7: STEM Journal with cover, reflection page, checklist, EDITABLE checklist, and station recording sheets
Pages 8-12: STEM Station display cards
Page 13: EDITABLE STEM Station display cards
Page 14: Credits
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PreK - 3rd
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FREE Summer STEM!
This FREE half-sized Summer STEM booklet is perfect to keep your little engineers engaged over summer break! Eight summer-themed challenges are provided in a choice board format, along with student recording sheets and a final reflection sheet. Open-ended challenges can be completed using common household materials and materials found in nature.
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K - 4th
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Halloween Activity / STEM Challenge - Witch's Brew
Design a witch's brew potion that bubbles! Students will need to mix various ingredients until they find two that create a chemical reaction to make the potion bubble. This is a very fun activity even your youngest scientists will love! ContentsGetting StartedSuggested Material List (you will need baking soda, vinegar, and various other baking supplies)Teacher NotesPrintable Challenge Poster: Hang at your STEM center or near where the STEM creations are, especially if they will be on display for
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K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
The Dot By Peter Reynolds Activities - Dot Day STEM and STEAM
Explore this growth mindset read-aloud with STEAM activities for International Dot Day! Warm-up the brain with dot and pixel art, and then dive into one (or all four) STEM challenges. These activities pair with the read aloud The Dot. Try these challenges and see where they take you!✅ What You'll Get ✅2 warm-up activities to get the creativity flowing4 STEM ActivitiesArt desk STEM activityEasel STEM activityPicture frame STEM activityPainting tool STEM activityRecording OptionsGraphic organizer
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: STEM Bundle of Activities and Challenges Read Aloud Books and Novels
Shelter Building STEM Challenge
This FREE STEM challenge is designed similarly to the other STEM Challenges in my store. I am offering this one as a free sample so that you can experience the joy of STEM with your students. The “problem” presented in this shelter building challenge was a real life situation that happened to my family and me this summer on a back country hike. We got caught out in a rain storm on a hiking trail and were forced to quickly solve the problem of building a shelter to keep ourselves and our gear
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
May the Fourth Be With You FREEBIE STEM Challenge May 4 Activities Star Wars Day
Need a FREE May 4th activity? This May the Fourth Be With You STEM challenge will guide your space cadets to build a hideout to hide from the rebellion. It’s easy to set up & requires common classroom materials to plan the perfect Star Wars day. This freebie is part of my best-selling bundle! *Have more fun!! Download all 6 STEM challenges! Save $6 with the bundle! Your students will love designing their own base! Check out the PREVIEW for more details.MATERIALS NEEDED:Use any common craft m
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K - 3rd
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Boat Building STEM Activities - Marine Engineer Challenges
Students will be delighted and challenged to complete these boat building Marine Engineer STEM challenges! Whether you are teaching about the ocean, community helpers, or are just looking for fun and engaging science activities, these challenges are perfect for students to work on whole group, in a small group, or even as a fun and engaging move on activity.The following pages are included in this freebie:A teacher page with detailed instructions.An “about the engineer” page with a simple introd
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PreK - 5th
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STEM Sampler Pack with Sound STEM Challenge and Engineering Graphic Organizer
This Engineering Design Process graphic organizer is one of my most loved resources! If you have looked online for an EDP graphic organizer, you've probably seen this one pop up. It's been used and shared by thousands of teachers all over the world! In this STEM sampler pack you can try out a free STEM challenge or STEM sticks.What You'll GetA sound-based voice muffler STEM challenge with corresponding vocabulary cards so you and your students can "talk like an engineer"Engineering design proces
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1st - 6th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: NEW STEM Teacher Bundle
STEM Activities & Makerspace | Choice Boards PreK Kindergarten 1st Grade FREE
Engage your primary students with STEM! It is often thought that STEM activities are only for older and advanced learners, but this can’t be further from the truth. STEM activities are for everyone. These FREE STEM Activities & MakerSpace Choice Boards for PreK, Kindergarten and 1st Grade was created to encourage little ones, pre-readers, and students with special needs to think creatively, work to the best of their ability, complete their work on time, and build using the engineering design
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PreK - 1st
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100 Pieces STEM Station Challenge - 100 Days of School STEM Activities FREE
100 Pieces STEM Stations work great for 100 Days of School or any time of year! Stem Station activities use a variety of items that you already have on hand. Includes a 100% TEXT Editable Google Slides presentation to introduce students to the activity and rules. Simply edit the presentation to indicate the materials students will use, the station rules, and time allowed per station. Also includes EDITABLE STEM Stations Recording sheets. Versatile for so MANY GRADE LEVELS because you can change
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K - 8th
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STEAM Bins Activities / STEM Bin Activities (Fall)
STEAM BIN / STEM BIN FALL EDITION ! STEAM Bins/STEM Bins Activities is a great resource to get students collaborating with one another, exploring ways to build structures, manipulating resources, and team building. It also allows them to express their creativity in different ways through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. STEM bin Activities allow students to think critically and solve problems. Practicing these skills are essential for children throughout their life. STEAM
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PreK - 4th
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FREE STEM At Home Learning Menus
Integrate STEM at Home!Help students integrate STEM subjects at home with these 3 FREE STEM learning menus. Includes Spanish version for ESL families!Integrate Writing, Reading, Math, Science, and Geography!These activities are interdisciplinary and help students make connections between STEM subjects as well as writing and reading.Material List:To complete these STEM menus students will need common household items like paper and tape.Includes:This resource includes three menus that can be used
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Entire Year of Read Aloud STEM Activity Menus Bundle
May the Fourth STEM Mats - STEM Center for Building Bricks
May the 4th be with you! These ARE the STEM mats you are looking for. If you are searching for a STEM / space themed resource for May the 4th, this set is out of this ✨world✨!STEM Mats are so easy to set up in your classroom! If you like these please check out the other available sets (below).What You'll Get⭐ Instructions and sample images⭐ 3 May the 4th STEM Mats ⭐ Recording sheet⭐ Metric options and two color themesLearn MoreFor a detailed explanation of how to use STEM mats, please visit this
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1st - 5th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Makerspace Tasks for the Whole Year
STEM Leprechaun Trap Planning Sheet
Here's an easy planning sheet for your kids to outline their plans for making a leprechaun trap. It's great for St. Patrick's Day fun at home and in the classroom. There's a full color printable and an ink saving black and white printable.
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GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3 BEARS STEM
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD STEM
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK STEM
THREE LITTL
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1st - 3rd
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STEM/STEAM Engineering Design Process Individual Posters
STEM/STEAM activities are a great way to provide students with engaging lessons that nurture higher level thinking skills and encourage real world application/connections.
These Engineering Design Process Posters are bright and colorful, with larger focus words and guided questions for promoting student success. Included in this unit:
*Engineering Design Process Posters
(5 individual color posters-ask, imagine, plan, create, improve)
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PreK - 8th
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How to Survive as a Shark - FLOAT or SINK
Get this free activity to accompany the AWESOME book How to Survive as a Shark by Kristen Foote. All images created by Erica Salcedo are used with permission from The Innovation Press.
These are 2 great activities to teach and reinforce the concepts of floating and sinking. The first lesson discusses whether solid objects can float or sink and the second lesson discusses whether liquids can float on not. This ties in with the concept that the oil in a shark's liver gives it buoyancy so it
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1st - 3rd
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Maker Space Letters and Labels Freebie
Looking to start a Makerspace in your classroom? Not quite sure where to start? Download this freebie for what you need to get a makerspace started in your classroom!This freebie includes:-Directions-pictures-Makerspace Letters-bin labels-ideas and more!If you like this pack...check out Maker Space Fishing Day Task Card PackMaker Space Super Hero Task Card PackDon't forget to check out my Makerspace letters and labels!Also, check out my blog at: http://scienceschoolyard.blogspot.com/for more gre
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1st - 6th
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Animal Adaptations Activity and Resource
Have you considered using current events to help students make connects to science and social studies?
I have create a two-page worksheet to use alongside a TED video about how humans have responded to and adapted their body covering with respect to surviving shark attacks. My students loved this video and were very engaged in the focus question discussion pre and post video. Their favorite part was, of course to illustrate the adaptation and their attention to detail conveyed their high inter
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1st - 6th
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Snowman Matter Science and STEM Pack
Teaching the three states of matter has never been so fun! Grab some snow or shaved ice and watch as your snowman melts away! This is also a great way to measurement and process writing!This mini science and STEM includes:Lesson plan, guiding questions, book connectionsvideo science connectionschanging states of matter postersnowman record sheetchanging states of matter connectionssolids/liquids/gas snowman connections sheetSTEM Activity: Build the tallest snowman out of paper and masking tapele
Claim Evidence Reasoning: "The Bad Dog Mystery" Worksheet
Students will be introduced to using Claim Evidence Reasoning to solve The Bad Dog Mystery. This worksheet follows along with the step by step powerpoint that allows students to make a Claim, review the Evidence, and lastly, determine their Reasoning with support. This evidence sheet is provided to allow students to review their work and discuss their findings with other students. This lesson allows students to analyze data, make measurements, and think critically. It is interactive and fun!
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1st - 5th
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STEM Challenges: 3-2-1...MEASURE!
Do you love doing hands-on, engaging measurement activities with your students? Take the work out of teaching a new recording sheet and allow students to get straight to measuring! These recording sheets can become a go-to, easy to use resource for so many of your STEM Challenges. Here are just a few ideas for potential “launch” challenges:•Catapults•Paper Airplanes•Straw Rockets•Balloon Powered Cars or Rockets•Foam Stomp Rockets•Origami Jumping Frogs•Lego VehiclesWhether your students need prac
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K - 5th
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Earthworms
Kaplan's Think like a scientist as you observe a real live earthworm (nightcrawler)! Kindergarten, first, and second graders will love this hands on science activity. The lesson can be scaffolded by having Kindergarteners first observe the earthworm with a scientific tool (magnifying lens) and then complete the observation sheet with or without teacher help. The older children do the same, except think more critically by comparing the earthworm to a human- did you know earthowrms have 5 hearts?
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PreK - 3rd
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FREEBIE! Brain Growers The Human Body: Aligned to CKLA Grade 1 Domain 2
Brain Growers are designed to get your students thinking critically, ethically, and creatively. This FREE download includes 2 of the 12 engaging printable activities that can be used many ways in your classroom, such as:early finisher activitiesindependent work during small group rotationshomework projectswhole class assignmentssmall group assignmentssubstitute workenrichment for gifted and talented studentsand more!All of the printable activities in this download are aligned with The Human Body
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K - 2nd
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Marshmallow Challenge Card Set
Card Set to go along with the Marshmallow Challenge. Print, laminate, and clip with a book ring to start building a STEM challenge set for your classroom. This would also be a great resource for a Makerspace!
Aligned to Iowa Core/NGSS Standards-
Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science
3–5–ETS1–1
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Engineering, Technology, and Appli
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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