"Biome" in a Baggie
(View Complete Item Description)This ZOOM video segment shows how to create a self-contained environment and explores evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive
All resources in PA STEM Toolkit Workgroup Round 2 - Sandbox
Computational Thinking Lesson Plan for Kindergarten
(View Complete Item Description)Topic: How to use the Dash Robot to answer math questions? This is w whole week lesson plan that helps to teach kindergarten students addition and subtraction, color, shape, direction, and how to operate the Dash Robot. Students will be able to develop computational thinking skills in algorithm and deconstructing problems.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Engineering Design Process
(View Complete Item Description)This hands-on lesson introduces students to the engineering design process. It connects to the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Students will use the design process to create a bridge that will keep the Billy Goats Gruff safe and complete the Engineering Design Process Journal.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
PBL Works Website
(View Complete Item Description)PBL Works is a resource for Project Based Learning resources, lessons, rubrics, and other things needed to recreate PBL in your classroom.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Building Sight Words
(View Complete Item Description)Kindergarten students use various materials to build their classroom sight words. This activity integrates STEM & ELA.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Maple Syrup Pre-Questions
(View Complete Item Description)Discover the process of collecting sap from Maple trees and turning it into sweet Maple Syrup. Analyze how the how the weather impacts the production of the sap and how evaporation plays a crucial role int the creation of syrup.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
5 Honey Bee STEM Unit Rizzolino Kocher
(View Complete Item Description)This Unit is Transdisciplinary reinforcing the importance of the honeybee.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Computer Science is Changing the World
(View Complete Item Description)Students will recognize that computer science is so important because it can be found in almost every career. Don't wait, start learning how to code today.
Material Type: Lecture
Be Internet Awesome
(View Complete Item Description)Teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety.
Material Type: Lesson
Animal Adaptations STEM Toolkit Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)This is a project based lesson focused on behavioral and physical adaptations of animals.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Simulation
Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones
(View Complete Item Description)Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, expose them to varying light or soil moisture conditions. They measure growth of the seedlings every few days using non-standard measurement (inch cubes). After a few weeks, they compare the growth of plants exposed to the different conditions and make bar comparative graphs, which they analyze to draw conclusions about the needs of plants.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Growing and Graphing
(View Complete Item Description)Students visit second- and fourth-grade classes to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar graphs (paper cut-outs of miniature building blocks glued on paper to form bar graphs) enabling a comparison of the heights of different age groups. The activities that comprise this activity help students develop the concepts and vocabulary to describe, in a non-ambiguous way, how heights change as children age. This introduction to graphing provides an important foundation for creating and interpreting graphs in future years.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Learning the 4Cs Through Literacy-Based STEM
(View Complete Item Description)In this unit, students will learn about the 4Cs (communication, collaboration, creation, and critical thinking) through literature-based engineering challenges. Each lesson focuses on one "C" and one read-aloud. This unit is geared for grades 2-3 but could be adapted to any elementary grade level. COMMUNICATION - Click Clack Moo COLLABORATION - Iggy Peck Architect CRITICAL THINKING - Rosie Revere Engineer CREATION - Galimoto
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Literature Based STEM - Book List & Corresponding Activities
(View Complete Item Description)Literature Based STEM - Book List & Corresponding Activities: Looking for grab-and-go elementary STEM lessons? Looking for a read-aloud to hook an existing STEM lesson? Trying to build a STEM library? Search the spreadsheet by titles, authors, big ideas, themes, and lessons. Whether you are a STEM specialist or a classroom teacher, these lessons will work for you.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading
How Can We Reduce Trash in the Cafeteria?
(View Complete Item Description)This problem based learning (PBL) activity allows students to become educated on how excess waste can harm the environment. This activity then has the students form a plan on how their school can limit trash output in their cafeteria, and then sending a letter to their principle describing their plan.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame
(View Complete Item Description)The basic processes involved in manufacturing systems are demonstrated while students produce their own picture frames. They learn about cutting, shaping, assembly, joining and finishing, as well as attention to quality, safety and production quantity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Ozobots Geometry
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan uses Ozobots and their coding into reviewing Geometry vocabulary.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Geometry and Measurement Games
(View Complete Item Description)These games support student development of spatial sense and foster familiarity with the mathematical vocabulary of geometry.
Material Type: Game
Designing a Tunnel: An Earth Science Design Challenge
(View Complete Item Description)After teaching a unit about rocks and minerals, students are challenged with picking a site for a tunnel, drilling through a mountain with clay, reinforcing the hole to create a tunnel, and then testing their design. Students will also estimate and calculate the amount of time it takes them to drill.
Material Type: Lesson Plan