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Distance Learning STEM Challenges: Boxes of Awesome!

Distance Learning STEM Challenges: Boxes of Awesome!

With school closing because of COVID-19, our school was looking for a way to keep our students planning, designing, and creating. A week after our school closed, we received some new student Chromebooks. Inside were beautiful new laptops, that I know our students will be so happy to use when we return to school.  But what about now? I couldn’t… Read More

Tell Me Something Good!

Tell Me Something Good!

This is a crazy time! I start all my Zoom meetings with my kids by saying, “Tell me something good!”  I’m going to tell you something good today!!!  Two Amazing Things are Coming Your Way!!!!   TPT Sale: April 6thand 7th TPT is having a Site Wide Sale because so many parents and teachers are in need of resources.  This will happen on… Read More

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

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  • STEM Thanksgiving Puppet and Float Challenge will engage all your elementary students during the Thanksgiving holiday. This STEM Activity connects to the book Balloons Over Broadway. Students plan, design, and engineer a puppet or float. Your students will have fun putting on a school parade to show off their creations. Your students will love going through the design process as they cover the Next Generation Science Standards. Great for grades 3rd-5th #stem #iteachtoo #stemeducation
  • STEM Thanksgiving Puppet and Float Challenge will engage all your elementary students during the Thanksgiving holiday. This STEM Activity connects to the book Balloons Over Broadway. Students plan, design, and engineer a puppet or float. Your students will have fun putting on a school parade to show off their creations. Your students will love going through the design process as they cover the Next Generation Science Standards. Great for grades 3rd-5th #stem #iteachtoo #stemeducation
  • STEM Thanksgiving Puppet and Float Challenge will engage all your elementary students during the Thanksgiving holiday. This STEM Activity connects to the book Balloons Over Broadway. Students plan, design, and engineer a puppet or float. Your students will have fun putting on a school parade to show off their creations. Your students will love going through the design process as they cover the Next Generation Science Standards. Great for grades 3rd-5th #stem #iteachtoo #stemeducation
  • STEM Football Field Goal Challenge is Students plan, design, engineer, and collect data as they are having fun designing a football field and goal post. Students collect data as they kick their footballs for field goals.
  • STEM Thanksgiving Puppet and Float Challenge will engage all your elementary students during the Thanksgiving holiday. This STEM Activity connects to the book Balloons Over Broadway. Students plan, design, and engineer a puppet or float. Your students will have fun putting on a school parade to show off their creations. Your students will love going through the design process as they cover the Next Generation Science Standards. Great for grades 3rd-5th #stem #iteachtoo #stemeducation
  • 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.
  • Project Based Learning Lessons will engage your students as they create simulations of real live event learning tasks. Students will engage and think critically as they go through these projects. Students love learning when it is real, relevant, and engaging!
  • Project Based Learning: Choosing a Pet is an engaging hands PBL activity that will engage your elementary students. This fun activity will give your students the opportunity to think critically as they make decisions. Students will learn how to make important decisions using the PACED Decision Making Guide. (third, fourth, fifth graders, Grade 3,4,5) #teachingthestars #tpt #teacherspayteachers
  • STEM Creating a Zoo Model will introduce your students to many important science concepts as they research, design, and create a zoo habitat. Students learn about the different habitats animals live in and create an environment for them.
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