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5 Great Winter Books and STEM Activities

5 Great Winter Books and STEM Activities

Winter Books and STEM Activities that your elementary students will love!  I love reading picture books! Yes, I teach 5thgrade and still read picture books daily! My students enjoy listening to books about snow and winter topics! They even reread them several times during the time they are out! I love displaying seasonal picture books around my classroom! Here are… Read More

5 Fun and Easy STEM Christmas Activities

5 Fun and Easy STEM Christmas Activities

I love integrating STEM into my fifth grade classroom, especially during the Christmas holiday season. If you are like me, I like planning out my STEM Activities for December early! Getting all the supplies ready and gathered up! Students get excited and stay engaged whenever learning is made fun! It also gives my students something to look forward to on… Read More

My 5 Favorite November STEM Activities

My 5 Favorite November STEM Activities

November is such a full month, Veteran’s Day and then to Thanksgiving Holiday Activities. STEM Fridays are a regular routine in my classroom.  I try to have an engineering design challenge and connect it with a book or a science/social studies concept.  One of my favorites is with the book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet. This story is about… Read More

14 Books to Build a Classroom Community

14 Books to Build a Classroom Community

Are you looking for children’s books that start great classroom discussions about character education?  I start every morning with a family meeting.  Our family meetings are a huge part of building our classroom community. I love reading picture books to my students! And yes, I teach 5th grade. 5th graders even look forward to our book a day!  These books bring… Read More

Testing Week!

Testing Week!

Testing is here! Like it or not! So why not make the best of it. Now is the time to motivate your students to do their best! Here are some fun ideas!! All these things are cheap and easy, but definitely makes our students feel special! Taking the time to write a little special note!! These things bring a smile… Read More

February STEM Challenges

February STEM Challenges

February STEM February is one of my favorite months! It is full of excitement and fun learning opportunities.  Candy hearts and making Love Boats are fun ways to get my students learning important skills while they are thinking critically and problem solving! Teaching students measurement skills can be fun, whenever you throw in some candy hearts. Check out my STEM… Read More

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Wow, starting another year! I always reflect on my teaching practices and how my students are learning.   Questions I ask myself:   Are my students learning?  Are they engaged?  Are they enjoying learning?  Are they loving school?   Are they becoming lifelong learners?   This year while reading, these words stuck out to me: Learning by doing! I feel that STEM totally encompasses… Read More

Thanksgiving STEM Challenges

Thanksgiving STEM Challenges

Happy November!! I just want to share a couple exciting things with you! The first thing is November STEM! I have several STEM products in my store that will engage your students during the Thanksgiving season. Check out these fun products! My students loved making Totem Poles and floating their tinfoil canoes.  Keep your students excited about learning and thinking… Read More

5th Grade Matter Unit & Fun Activities

5th Grade Matter Unit & Fun Activities

                                  Fun ways to teach matter! Wow! What an exciting day. We finished up our Unit on Matter with a “Cookin’ Up Chemistry” Breakfast. It was a fun and yummy way to end our study of matter.           Over the… Read More

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  • Economics College and Career Ready is a unit that teaches students about Improving their Human Capital by Getting College and Career Ready
  • STEM Build a School Activity is a fun and engaging design and engineer challenge for elementary classrooms. STEM Challenges and Literature Connections are connected to the book If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen. Students will design and construct their perfect school after reading this engaging book. Making learning fun with this project. (third, fourth, fifth graders, Grade 3,4,5) #teacherspayteachers #iteachtoo #stemeducation
  • STEM Around the World: Big Ben connects Social Studies and Engineering Design Challenges. (third, fourth, fifth, Grade 3,4,5) Students will enjoy researching and learning about Big Ben and its history as they create a model of it. Great to add to Christmas Around the World. Students love designing, creating, & engineering. Students will problem solve and think critically as they complete the activities and research about The Famous Landmark: Big Ben.
  • Treehouse STEM connects to the books The Great Treehouse War by Lisa Graff or The Magic Treehouse Series? The Treehouse STEM Challenge will give your students the opportunity to research treehouses and design their own model. Your students will love designing, creating, and engineering. Students will problem solve and think critically as they complete their challenges. Great for Makers Spaces, STEM Labs, or After School STEM Projects (third, fourth, fifth grade)
  • In Project Based Learning Gardening, students plan a garden and experience a scarcity of space. Students use the PACED Decision Making Guide to decide what they should plant. If you don’t have a garden area you may choose to set your space as a beach towel. Students will take the seed packages and measure the amount of space each plant will take.
  • STEM Yo-Yo Research and Challenge will engage all your elementary students while they research the history of yo-yos. Your elementary students will research yo-yos and conduct science experiments. Collecting data, learning about energy, and researching are all important skills. Great for grades 3rd-5th
  • STEM School Box Challenges is a packet of 10 STEM Challenges that will fit into a school box. This packet contains: Challenge Label, Inside the Box Student’s Directions, Teacher’s Page with the directions and materials, and Student STEM Journal. These activities can also be used for STEAM Activities, Maker Spaces, Tinkering Labs, or After School Clubs. Your students will love designing, creating, engineering, predicting, comparing, building, & reflecting about their challenges.
  • ⭐If you read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle this is the STEM Challenge for you? The movie is coming out and kids are excited, so make learning fun by having your students create a Tesseract. Connecting STEM with a Great Book: A Wrinkle in Time STEM Challenge will get your students excited about reading. Students will design a TESSERACT. It is a great way to integrate literature and STEM! This lesson also connects with several geometry standards.
  • US President Research Banners is a collection of digital banners of all the United States Presidents. This resource is great for Presidents' Day! Just assign on Google Classroom and students can research! Print for an instant display of student work! The banners give students a guide to find the important information about each President and help them turn it into a great informational piece of writing! It is also a great way to display what students have learned about our Presidents!
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