Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
March is here, and I am looking forward to warmer temperatures as well as spring STEM fun! The following are some of my favorite March STEM activities for elementary students.
Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
Are you looking for STEM Challenges that will fill your entire year? This seasonal bundle has it all! Perfect STEM Challenges for each month of the school year. This money-saving bundle will give you three challenges per month.➡️This bundle is all you will need to get started in STEM-with exciting, e...
For Teen Read Month last fall, the South Jordan Library hosted an after hours minigolf event for middle and high schoolers. The teens who came got into teams of 2-5 people and each team created a hole using library items, such as book ends, discarded magazines; and household and recycled items, such as paper plates, cardboard tubes, duct tape, and more. After each team created a hole, the teens played through the course, rotating around to all 9 holes so they got a chance to see how creative the other teams were. They also found out that playing the holes was, in some ways, even harder than building them! The program was fairly inexpensive--the main cost was the duct tape--and the golf clubs were loaned by a local golf course for the night. The lumber that you see pictured was donated by Home Depot, who even cut it down to size for us. Hooray for community partnerships! I didn't invent this idea of playing minigolf in the library. I do, however, know a good idea when I see one on Pinterest! From the time I repinned the picture of another library's minigolf program, I knew it would be a really fun thing that I would implement before the year was out. When I started planning, I realized it would take me forever to set up a whole golf course myself, so the idea of having the kids actually build it during the program was born from a need to make it easier on me (and realistically realizing that it would be hard even for a large crew of helpers to set up a whole golf course between closing and the start of the program). My amazing Teen Advisory Board teens helped with the set up and take down, which also made a difference. As it turned out, the building was probably the most fun part and is really a STEM activity, measuring, fitting, checking angles, and testing to see if your concept worked, just to name a few. Submitted by L. Renshaw Teen Librarian South Jordan Library (Salt Lake County Library Services)
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Day two of the MSR was so busy I had to break it up into several blog posts!!! So much to enjoy and document! We awoke bright and early and had breakfast together before heading out for more team building activities! We had some fun trying to make shapes with this really big circle. Did you know how hard it can be to try and make a triangle with a giant circle when your eyes are closed. Let me tell you from experience, it's really hard! Everyone was included in the circle, literally! It was so gorgeous outside that we moved our games outdoors! Quinn and his new friends! This was Quinn's first MSR as well. As you can see, he had a blast! More team work... ring toss through hula-hoops. Emma showing off her hula-hooping skills! Back inside for... you guessed it, more games! We also did a marble challenge with teams. We had to use the tunnel pieces to get the marble into the cup as quickly as possible! Major teamwork! Snack break! After snack we played some exciting rounds of "let's get physical" scrabble. Or as Quinn puts it, "Run, before the teachers maul you" scrabble! The kids had to get scrabble pieces from the center of the room to build words that had to do with a given category! As you can tell, this was a timed event! Action shot! Scrabble teams! Cute. Thumbs up. Myron and his ladies! Some of our "friendship" words! And "respect" words! After a while... the adults wanted a team of their own. We obviously took the game VERY seriously! According to reports from students... the scrabble game got a whole less fun once the adults joined. Maybe we got a little TOO into it. Even so, it was a whole lot of fun!
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By Blair Blackwell -T apping into a student’s interest in sports can provide an effective, hands-on and fun approach to teaching STEM.
Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness: A STEM Activity “The Tell-Tale Heart”. 7 th Grade ELA Thrills and Chills November 2013. Warm-Up: Vocabulary. Complete “The Tell-Tale Heart”/”The Landlady” Vocabulary Review wksht . Use your lists! Spelling counts! You may have to add an ending to verbs!
The Lego Challenge was designed to encourage kids to use their imagination in play with Lego. This product includes 36 Lego Challenges that can be played at home or in a therapy setting. Play with friends or family. Add a timer to make things more interesting! For more information about the original YKOT Lego Challenge refer to this link.
Working against a criteria & constraints list, students will make a boat designed for capacity and/or speed (new twists included in the newly-updated version of this challenge)!I think of this as an "anytime" STEM challenge, but it's perfect for the end of the school year and summer.
By Blair Blackwell -T apping into a student’s interest in sports can provide an effective, hands-on and fun approach to teaching STEM.
Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning has this wonderful article that tells us the story behind Caine's Arcade. It turns out that a filmmaker, Nirvan Mullick, stopped by his father's store looking for a part for his car and became Caine's "first - and only - paying customer. Mullick is also a "digital strategist" for social good campaigns. He was determined to "create a memorable day for Caine" and used Facebook to "invite everyone" to visit on a Sunday afternoon. Read this article to learn much more about the experience and discover what has happened and how folks feel, as well as a wide range of resources.
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Bucket Towers is an original STEM Challenge for upper elementary classes and it is a student favorite. You will love the easy prep! This is hard to believe, but some of our best STEM Challenges have been created accidentally. The STEM Bucket Tower challenge is one of those! Building boats was another total spur-of-the-moment challenge.
In this STEM challenge for kids, children will create a paper plate marble maze game inspired by pinball machines using a paper plate and a marble. This engineering activity is great for kids from kindergarten age up through 4th, 5th and 6th grades! Follow our STEM for Kids Pinterest board! This post contains affiliate links. …
It's the last Made 4 Math Monday of the summer! I'm planning and hoping to keep up with this once school starts...we shall se...
Bottle flipping, bottle tossing, the bottle flip challenge, water bottle toss challenge, or water bottle flip challenge - regardless of the name, your students are most likely familiar with it and driving teachers, parents, and community members a little crazy flipping their half filled water bottles and trying to land them upright in the classroom, cafeteria, at recess and outside of school. Here is a video of my husband demonstrating (sidenote, I'm really terrible at it!) Just this morning I watched a group of students walking to school stop and attempt to flip a bottle they had placed on an upended recycling
I have loved celebrating Pi Day with my classes since I started teaching. I think it is a great experience for the kids to do some fun, memorable things in the math classroom. This year, I did a …
Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
This past school year, after teaching the Pythagorean Theorem for what seemed like the 18 millionth time, I decided to create a foldable to ...
Measurement Madness! (Reinforcement Using a Metric Ruler and Completing Metric Conversions) Last week, two things happened that were the inspiration for this new product: (1) I had to be absent and knew that I would have a sub in my room. I needed a good assignment to leave for my students to complete in my absence, and (2) I was shocked to discover that some of my HIGH SCHOOL students still had difficulty using a metric ruler properly and converting from one unit to another. The worksheet begins..... Students make observations about their ruler. Students must draw lines of a give length. Students must measure the lines that are already drawn on the worksheet. Page 2..... Students use a ruler to measure the sides of a 2-dimensional object. Students determine the area of the figure in both centimeters and millimeters. Page 3.... Students us a ruler to measure the sides of a 3-dimensional object. Students determine the volume of the figure in both centimeters and millimeters. Students complete practice problems on converting from one metric unit to another metric unit using the process of dimensional analysis. Page 4 ..... I want my students to understand how important the metric system is to their lives and to realize that the metric system is much easier to use than our archaic English system of measurement. I wrote a few paragraphs about really cool animal facts. Each paragraph contains statistics about the animal that have to be converted to another system of measurement. If the stats are in feet, the student will convert them to centimeters, and vice-versa. My kids LOVED the pictures I included. Page 5...... This page contains more animal fact/conversion paragraphs, as well as a few follow up questions. This product also comes with a 3 page answer key. This is suitable for grades 7 - 10. I feel like it went a long way in reinforcing some critical science and math skills. Happy Teaching!! Measurement Madness!
Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
I hope that this blog inspires you to start using interactive notebooks with your students. Here are some things to think about when you g...
Highlights This humorous, rhythmic, read-aloud story is about a young boy who awakens to find that everything around him is odd. 5-8 Years 10.0" x 8.9" Hardcover 32 Pages Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories Description About the Book A young boy awakens to find that everything around him is "odd" both at home and at school. Book Synopsis This humorous, rhythmic, read-aloud story is about a young boy who awakens to find that everything around him is odd. He has one shoe, his shirt has three sleeves, and his dog has five legs! Children and adults will delight in finding all the odd things hidden in the art. The "For Creative Minds" section includes odd fun facts, an odd coloring chart a "How Odd?" Oddities section, a Creative Sparks supplement and a counting activity. This fictional story with rhyming text includes a 3-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 57-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. One Odd Day is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Review Quotes "The colorful, busy spreads have child appeal, and independent readers can pore over the pages, trying to spot all the out-of-the-ordinary things...this odd addition might be fun for some collections.- School Library Journal About the Author Award-winning illustrator Karen Jones began her career as a storyboard artist and editorial illustrator but it wasn't until she had children of her own that she discovered her true artistic passion: children's illustration. In addition to Midnight Madness at the Zoo, Karen has illustrated One Odd Day, My Even Day and My Half Day for Arbordale. She has also written and illustrated ABC Safari. Karen and her family live outside of Raleigh, NC. Karen's children join her on many research trips to museums, zoos and aquariums-a tough job, but someone has to do it! Visit Karen's website: http: //www.karenjonesillustration.com/
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Students need the opportunity to work in small groups. It can be a nightmare if things don't go well though. Here are some tips to setting up your small groups so the lesson goes smoothly.
When children are beginning to learn how to multiply numbers, one of the first things they learn is to make a pattern with objects in an array. They count the manipulatives and notice that there is a length and a width. That they can also count all of manipulatives to find a total. From this ... Read more
Math and geometry magic trick. How to turn 2 paper circles into a square. This is a fun activity to show your kids. They will want to try it for themselves!
Sentence stems help students communicate what they are thinking about, help many students with special needs, and provide focus for our lesson.
Save BIG and receive 2 full months for FREE with the All Year Growing Bundle! ★STORYBOOK STEM ALL YEAR BUNDLE Created by Brooke Brown and Katie King, Storybook STEM provides early childhood teachers with weekly all-in-one units to cover essential skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, math, science, and engineering. Four units are included to accompany favorite seasonal children’s books, with supplemental STEM challenges for each and differentiated literacy and math options for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. * The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco * Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie de Paola * Basketball Belles by Sue Macy * Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett Each read aloud and unit can be completed in the form of mini lessons throughout the week, or within a 2.5 hour block on one day of the week, such as Maker Mondays or STEM Fridays. Storybook STEM also provides a simple and comprehensive option for substitute teachers. March Storybook STEM contains the following: Week 1: (The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco) *Comprehension bookmark *Lesson anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet *Onomatopoeia anchor chart and student extension *Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets) *Math Connection Anchor Chart – 3D Shapes *STEM Challenge: Bee Hotel (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher charts, and student recording booklet) Week 2: (Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie de Paola) *Comprehension bookmark *Illustrations anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet *Context Clues anchor chart and student extension *Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets) *Math Connection Anchor Chart – Weight *STEM Challenge: Potato Pulley (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet) Week 3: (Basketball Belles by Sue Macy) *Comprehension bookmark *Narrative Nonfiction anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet *Text Features anchor chart and student extension *Vocabulary (picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets) *Math Connection Anchor Chart – Skip Counting *STEM Challenge: Hoop Shoot (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet) Week 4: (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett) *Comprehension bookmark *Cause and Effect anchor chart, word cards, mini lesson, and student recording sheet *Exaggeration anchor chart and student activities *Vocabulary (Act it Out with picture cards, interactive games, and student recording sheets) *Math Connection Anchor Chart – Data Collection *STEM Challenge: Cloud Viewer (teacher lesson plan, vocabulary cards, teacher chart, and student recording booklet) ⇒Feedback and Followers Click the Green ★ to follow my store and get notifications of new product launches and freebies! Did you know that you can receive credit toward future TpT purchases by reviewing this product? If you enjoy this product, please leave a review at the product page or through "My Purchases" under "My Account" at TpT. Ratings make the TpT world go round! :-) ⇒I'd LOVE to connect with you! ★Teach Outside the Box ★Facebook ★Instagram ★Pinterest ⇒Terms of Use ©Brooke Brown, LLC at Teach Outside the Box ©Katie King at Queen of the First Grade Jungle By purchasing and/or downloading this electronic file, you agree to the terms of use as stated below. For personal use/single classroom use only. No part of this document may be distributed, posted on the internet, copied, sold, or edited without direct permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Act. To purchase additional sharing licenses, please visit my store. All contents of this document are under copyright protection including all text, graphics, contents, and fonts. All graphics and fonts are also protected by copyright from their original author/artist. Thank you so much for visiting my store!
Tweet If you are a regular follower of this blog, you might be tired of me talking about combinations of 5, 10, 20 and 100. I spend a lot of time making sure students are fluent with these ideas and am always coming up with more ways to make sure students get the practice they need with these facts. Today is no exception. Over the holidays, I spent lots of time with my nieces and nephews and one of them had a fun looking paper cup they were playing with. All it is is a balloon that has been tied off and had the tip snipped off. Take a paper cup and cut the bottom out of it. Stretch the balloon over the cup and you have a little popper. I used the regular 9 oz paper cups for this but depending on what objects you want to pop and if you are working on numbers to 5, 10 or 20, a bigger or smaller cup might work out better for you. Let's say you are working on combinations of 10. Give each student a popper cup and 10 pom poms. I made sure each kid had 10 of the same color so there wouldn't be arguing and let them get to work! They pull on the tied end of the balloon and release. Some of the pom poms will pop out and some will stay in the cup. This is a great time to ask questions about how many came out and how many are still left in the cup. After a few rounds of popping, you can have kids make a simple record sheet and record their combinations. These can be done as addition or subtraction equations or in a table format. Here are a few other things we have put in the poppers to work on number ID, shape ID and coins! If you try these with your students remember that pom poms are a lot lighter and softer than other materials. If you have a large class or are short on space, stick with the pom-poms!
When planning for new STEM projects I always had an idea for building a windmill. There are also many parts to this project- let's dive right in! Building windmills is something I wanted to try and so, we did! So, just imagine for a second, challenging your students to create something that turns... Let
