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2nd grade earth sciences resources for GATE
Weather STEM Activity | Spring STEM | Natural Disasters STEM Challenge Activity
If you’re looking to apply learning in weather, climate, natural disasters, natural resources & more, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully!The basic idea: Students work individually or in partners/groups against a list of criteria and constraints to create a shelter to defend against 3+ types of weather and/or disasters.This challenge was developed as part of the Planetopia Project, but it can be used as a stand-alone challenge as well.Note: Th
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
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Weather Hazard STEM
Natural Disaster STEM - Oh no! The weather is forecasting high winds! The family needs a safe place to stay. Build a shelter for the family that will withstand the wind. It will be tested with a hairdryer, so make it strong! Students must stick to a budget and use the available materials to build a shelter. The family must fit inside.
This STEM focuses on lessening the impact of natural disasters on humans with engineering. It meets NGSS Standards.
Please check the preview to see what is
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Natural Disasters STEM
Cloud Types Worksheets with STEM / STEAM Activities Weather Science
Are you learning about weather systems and types of clouds? Explore cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds, then create a cumulus zoo with a fun STEM or STEAM project.Materials needed for the STEM challenge:Cotton balls and pipe cleaners✅ What You'll Get ✅Informational text (The Water Cycle, Introduction to Clouds, Types of Clouds)Follow up activity (3 options)STEM activity (Cumulus Zoo) - includes samples, recording page, and display pageInstructions on using the digital resource, with examples (1
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
Weather Hazard STEM: Flooding
Flood Barrier STEM - Oh no! The weather forecast is for heavy flooding in the area. You need to build a flood barrier or flood resistant shelter to keep the family safe! This STEM challenge is designed to encourage creative problem solving. Students must design a shelter with the available supplies that is resistant to flooding while sticking to a budget. The shelter will be tested with water in a pan to see if the design was effective as a flood barrier. This STEM is perfect for areas aff
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Also included in: Natural Disasters STEM
Bird Feeder STEM
This engineering STEM challenge will encourage creative problem solving while developing math skills and teaching students about the needs of birds in the environment. It would be perfect for a winter STEM, Earth Day STEM, Animals in Winter STEM, or a Recycling STEM. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards.
Oh no! The birds in the area have lost some plants and trees due to development. They need help with their food supply! Your student engineers need to design a bird feeder fro
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Grades:
K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Geography Lessons and Activities | Critical and Creative Thinking BUNDLE
If you're looking for fabulous lesson plans about many aspects of geography, this bundle is for you! They're the perfect way to build geography skills, critical thinking skills, and creativity skills, all at once! You'll love the super high quality graphics, original articles, and the super clear teacher instructions for every single lesson.Ten different lessons/activities are included, and all of them align with National Geography Standards. Every resource has more than one activity, so this is
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
Fossils STEM Challenge | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities
Engage your students like never before with this Fossils STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Your students will plan and perform a fossil dig while following the steps of the Engineering Design Process. PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and let your students’ imaginations run wild! This resource includes:STEM Challenge Guide for
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
Bottle Ecosystem Design Project
Engage your students with this step-by-step Bottle Ecosystem Design Project.
Teach it!
Lesson plans will guide you through scaffolding students with classroom friendly fact sheets that will motivate students to infer as they decide what type of habitat will meet the needs of the insect they select.
Plan it!
Students will now begin the design process and draft samples of their bottle ecosystem. Collaboration with peers will ensure students are familiar with giving and receiving feedback to re
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2nd - 5th
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Slime STEM
Slime STEM Challenge- Oh no! The Ocean Slime (algae blooms) are growing too fast! All of that ocean slime is harmful to the marine life. We need the help of your students to build an ocean slime scoop that can successfully scoop up the slime. This slime stem challenge combines the love of playing with slime with solving a real-life science problem. Included are a variety of recipes for making slime with your students (or you can choose to just purchase some slime in advance). The students w
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Night Lights, Bright Lights: Aurora Borealis
Brighten up your curriculum with this nonfiction Common Core aligned science and literacy unit involving the aurora borealis. The nonfiction reader gives an in depth explanation of how and why auroras form. Students are challenged to apply, infer, and compare/contrast their knowledge of auroras. The science experiment included is sure to "light up" the smiles on your students' faces! Your students can also apply creative processes as they write a legend about how auroras developed (correlated
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Logic Puzzles Outer Space Science
Extend your outer space - astronomy lesson plans with these three (3) table logic puzzles.Geared for 3rd and 4th grade students with an interest in outer space, these logic puzzle brainteasers are a fun way to boost learning and explore more about:Lunar LandingSpace ProbesEarly Rocketry DevelopmentWe've taken critical thinking activities to a whole new level by integrating content-area facts with fun brain teasers. Whether you need a time filler, a homework assignment, an activity for an early f
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Landforms, Bodies of Water, Natural Resources and How People Use Them
EXPLORING PLACES!! This PowerPoint presentation shows 42 slides with very descriptive pictures of Landforms: canyon, volcano, mountains, cave, desert, plateau, valley, plain, hill, and island. Bodies of Water: River, Lake, pond, ocean, coast, waterfall, and glacierNatural Resources: Oil, water, trees, mines, wind, and soil. Uses of natural resources: to build highways, buildings, airports, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, swimming pools, gardens, etc.At the end of the presentation, the pict
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: BODIES OF WATER, LANDFORMS, AND, NATURAL RESOURCES BUNDLE
Types of Rocks STEM Challenge | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities
Engage your students like never before with this Rock Designer STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Your students will plan and design an igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock while following the steps of the Engineering Design Process.PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and let your students’ imaginations run wild! This resourc
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
Building STEM Challenge | Earthquake | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities
Engage your students like never before with this Earthquake STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Students will work together to plan and design a tall building that can withstand an “earthquake,” while following the steps of the Engineering Design Process.PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and let your students’ imaginations run wi
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
Paper Rocket STEM Challenge | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities
Engage your students like never before with this Paper Rocket STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Students will work together to plan and design a paper rocket while following the steps of the engineering design process.PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and let your students’ imaginations run wild! This resource includes:STEM Cha
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
RESOURCES, HOW PEOPLE MODIFY THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT - PROS and CONS
This PowerPoint presentation shows 36 slides with very descriptive photographs of Natural Resources and how people modify the environment and use them.The presentation begins by introducing natural resources and gradually shows how people modify the environment, clearing land, building roads and houses, using land for agriculture irrigating crops, drilling for oil, mining, building dams, airports, shopping malls, highways, dams, stadiums, bridges, amusement parks, aquariums, among others.The sl
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Solar Power Suncatcher STEM Challenge | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities
Engage your students like never before with this Suncatcher STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Your students will plan and design a suncatcher that can control a beam of light while following the steps of the Engineering Design Process. A DIGITAL version of this activity is also included! PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and le
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
Summer Tropical Bright Google Slides Virtual Bitmoji Classroom Choice Board Menu
Summer Tropical Bright Google Slides Virtual Bitmoji Classroom with Choice Board Menu is a perfect resource to engage your students. An excellent resource for Elementary Gifted Classrooms (2nd-5th) or Regular Classrooms (2nd-8th).Fully editable, low prep Google Slide template with clickable picture links serves as a Choice Board Menu for to students to easily find interactive resources and lessons. Works seamlessly with Canvas for Virtual Learning, Distance Learning, or as an Early Finisher Acti
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
Engage your students like never before with this Earth and Space Science STEM Challenge Bundle! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activities. Your students will follow the steps of the engineering design process to create a rocket, night-light, tall building, a rock, a compass, a windsock, an art print, a sun catcher, and so much more. → SAVE 20% BY PURCHASING THE BUNDLE! PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Dinosaur Google Slides Virtual Bitmoji Classroom Editable Choice Board Menu
Dinosaur Paleontology Google Slides Virtual Bitmoji Classroom with Choice Board Menu is a perfect resource to engage your students. An excellent resource for Elementary Gifted Classrooms (2nd-5th) or Regular Classrooms (2nd-8th).Fully editable, low prep Google Slide template with clickable picture links serves as a Choice Board Menu for to students to easily find interactive resources and lessons. Works seamlessly with Canvas for Virtual Learning, Distance Learning, or as an Early Finisher Activ
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Fossil Fun 2nd to 5th Grade Activities, Coloring, Matching, Drawing Fossils
"Fossil Fun: Drawing, Coloring, Matching" – the ultimate educational activity kit for school students and kids! Dive into the prehistoric world with this engaging set that combines learning and creativity.First, unleash your artistic talents by drawing and coloring different types of fascinating fossils, from dinosaur bones to ancient sea creatures like ammonites. Next, challenge your memory with the exciting fossil matching game, where you pair fossils with their corresponding dinosaurs or anim
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2nd - 5th
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Landforms STEM Challenge
If you’re looking to apply learning in landforms, weathering & erosion, plate tectonics & more, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a perfectly engaging way to get the job done joyfully! The basic premise: Students work individually or in partners/groups against a list of criteria and constraints to create the nonliving surface (geosphere & hydrosphere) of the fictional planet, Planetopia. Note: This is the printable version. If you are in a 1:1 / paperless classroom, you will want to
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Night Light STEM Challenge | Solar System | Earth & Space Science STEM Activity
Engage your students like never before with this Stargazing STEM Challenge! Your students will use real-life math, reading, and writing skills in this earth and space science STEM activity. Students will work together to plan and design a night light that projects objects from the solar system while following the steps of the Engineering Design Process.PLEASE CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE WHAT IS INCLUDED!The work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages and let your students’ imaginations
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges | Earth and Space Science STEM Activities Bundle
Paleontology Project Based Learning
This is a Project Based Learning activity that teaches students about the three different kinds of rocks, the rock cycle, weathering & erosion. It focuses on collaborative learning through hands-on experiences for students to engage in their learning. Students will plan and create several mini-projects in each content area that combine together to create the final project! Students will be encompassed in learning about rocks in every content area- reading, writing, math and science!Project B
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
NGSS:
2-PS1-1
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