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Common Core RST.6-8.7 projects
STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
History's Mysteries - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This investigation requires your history detectives to return to the year 1937. The world was a buzz with the excitement of Amelia Earhart completing the first trip around the world at the equator. Everything was going well.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
End of Year STEM Project Forces Motion Newtons Laws Assessment Bottle Rockets
This product is one of the most engaging and meaningful activities I do all year long! What kid wouldn’t want to build and launch rockets!?! Just take a look at an email I received from a former student about her memories of the bottle rocket lab and how it changed her life: Hi Mr. Williams,“How is Oak Crest lately?I was in your physical science class a loooooong long time ago (2008) and I thought I'd let you know that your bottle rockets project was what first got me into space propulsion. It w
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Grades:
6th - 10th
CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
, MS-PS2-1
STEM Sailboat Challenge Math & Engineering Activity
STEM Sailboat Engineering Activity Description Updated to include an editable STEM journals, instructional video, and teacher slides!The Sailboat STEM activity is a great way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or afterschool program! Many are familiar with the boat buoyancy challenge, and this takes it one step further by adding a sail! Now students must build a boat to hold a specific weight as well as incorporate aerodynamic principals to make it move. This hands
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-PS2-2
...
Also included in: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
Inventions Unit - Create Your Own Invention Project - Activities Questions STEM
Invention Convention: Learn about Inventors and Create Your Own Invention! This package includes engaging resources to complete an invention unit. Students learn about inventors and inventions and create their own invention project. Their "Invention to Change the World" is then displayed at a class Invention Convention. Everything needed is included - just print and teach!✅All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, and detailed instructions.✅This work
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4th - 8th
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Solar System Activity: Scaled Down Size & Distance Model of Our Solar System
Bring the Solar System down to Earth with this activity that scales down the sun, planets, and distances between them! An excellent out-of-the-classroom group activity for your inquisitive students!Watch your students' eyes widen as preconceptions are challenged and misconceptions are swept away.Then watch their eyes light up while they work together to measure distances and hold up planets, fusing math and science together into one unforgettable experience.This activity is not only fun, but i
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Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-3
Economics Resources: A Bundle of Engaging Resources On Money, Economy, & More
This bundle includes a variety of 9 economic resources from my store that you can add to your various economic units. With a total of 9 fantastic resources on economics, you will be saving 25% by getting this bundled version instead of purchasing the resources individually! That's like getting a few products for FREE! Products included are seen above! Enjoy!Thank You!Thanks so much for stopping by! It's great to meet you! I hope this resource adds value to your classroom. If you have time, I'd
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Not Grade Specific
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Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 45 of our favorite basic (Stage 1) STEM challenges that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom! Activities are perfect as back to school icebreakers or games that introduce STEM while getting students moving, communicating, and working in teams! BACKGROUNDBefore tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM. Through
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
...
Erosion Activity and Project STEM Conservation NGSS Middle School MS-ESS3-1
This PDF resource is a fun, creative, and engaging NGSS middle school research and engineering project incorporating STEM that challenges students in 6 different erosion and soil conservation scenarios to save their house/land! In this PBL (problem-based learning) resource with worksheets, students research the type of erosion and brainstorm, design, build, and present a product to prevent or stop it. It teaches students about the effects of erosion on various places and how the uneven distribut
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Layers of the Atmosphere Build an 8-foot Scaled-Down Model of our Atmosphere
Create an 8-foot-tall (2.4m), scaled-down model of our atmosphere and discover cool information about our atmosphere at the same time! Students will also learn a little history about humankind's ventures into our atmosphere.Includes Troposphere, Tropopause, Stratosphere, Stratopause, Mesosphere, Mesopause, Thermosphere, and Exosphere. No prep.The only way to get a true sense of atmospheric scale is with a model this big!Crosscutting concepts: scale, proportion, & quantity, systems & sy
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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CCSS:
Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle
Group Research Project Templates BUNDLE
If want your students to exercise their research skills, collaboration skills, and creativity all in one place, these resources give you everything you need for ANY topic! Don’t put all that extra work on yourself to come up with a project from scratch. Just fill these templates with the topic your class is studying and you’ll have everything you need—from start to end—to watch your students learn and create together!This is the FULL SET of everything needed for a general collaborative creative
Heredity & Genetics Unit - Hands-on Activities, Reading Passages, and Worksheets
In this unit, students will explore the fundamentals of genetics and heredity. The objective of the unit is that students will be able to identify and explain the advantages and disadvantages of sexual and asexual reproduction.This unit bundle consists of 6 lessons and a final project which can be used as a unit assessment. The bundle also includes a bonus short response formal assessment.In the first lesson, students explore the basics of DNA and terminology used when learning about genetics.In
Science Fair Project Organizational Tools
Science Fair time means lot of questions from parents and students! These tools I've created will help to put you, your students, and your parents at ease by showing how to organize a successful science fair project! You will be able to use these handouts year after year!!
You will get a four page handout to give your students/parents that gives detailed page by page directions on how to organize the project notebook. The project notebook explains how to set up the report which includes the
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Entrepreneurship Unit Activities & Project - Introduction
Explore Who & what is entrepreneurship? 5 Lessons of contentObjective: This is the introduction to the subject entrepreneurship. This series of lessons is designed to introduce students of a wide variety of ages to the growing career of being an entrepreneur and what that can involve. The aim of this lesson is to introduce the concept of entrepreneurship, and WHO an entrepreneur is and WHAT they do. The project creates real world learning opportunities empowering the students to connect the
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Population Interactions & Resource Availability - Explore OR Assess MS-LS2-1
Engage students in a phenomenon-based lesson OR assessment task that investigates the relationship between snowy owls and lemmings. Using one provided data set and supplementary resources, you can:guide student understanding of biotic factors, interactions and interdependencies between populations, and how changes in one population can impact the survival, growth, and reproduction of other organisms and populationsOR assess MS-LS2-1 and the impacts of resource availability on populationsIn this
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-1
Ecosystems/Ecology Poster Project
This product guides students through the creation of a poster of an ecosystem that illustrates all of the key concepts learned in a unit on ecology. Students begin by drawing abiotic and biotic factors (plants and animals) of an assigned/chosen ecosystem and then add various symbols and labels as they go to illustrate concepts such as food webs, trophic levels, transfer of energy, limiting factors, keystone species, and more. This project assesses student understanding of how ecosystems functio
NGSS Synthetic and Natural Resources Investigation and STEM Project MS-PS1-3
This phenomena-based, low prep and engaging NGSS and STEM Investigation and Project teaches middle school students that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society in various ways MS-PS1-3. This incredible activity has been newly updated as a digital PDF with worksheets for home or distance learning! Students are presented with the phenomenon of floating garbage in the sea through a video clip and investigate one of several listed materials in the trash to ultimately learn
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-3
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Atomic Theory Activity Structure of Atoms Discovery Timeline Project
Both GOOGLE SLIDES AND POWERPOINT versions are included!Students learn the history of the development of the atomic theory through a presentation. Assign the presentation for students to go through individually OR present it to the whole class. The presentation includes links to several interesting videos, so kids are ENGAGED the whole time.At the end of the presentation, students are assigned a TIMELINE PROJECT. They will summarize what they've learned in an atomic theory timeline.Historical
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Grades:
8th - 10th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-PS1-1
Intro to Video Game Design STEM Challenge (distance learning)
Help students turn their love of video games into a career! The Video Game Design STEM Challenge is a self-guided distance learning mini course for teens to learn what a video game designer does, understand the STEM behind this career, and test drive the career through fun online activities. Delivered in interactive GoogleSlides and PDF formats, including:1. online video game designer career exploration resources including virtual job shadow youtube video, career information sheet in English and
Grades:
6th - 12th
CCSS:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: STEM Challenge Bundle: 28 STEM career exploration mini courses
Hands-on Genetics Project to Study Inherited Traits, DNA, Genes, and Chromosomes
This lesson is designed to be a hands-on, guided assessment project for middle school students who have completed a study of Mendelian genetics, with a focus on dominant and recessive traits, incomplete dominance, and co-dominance. This guided assessment also covers a basic understanding of meiosis, emphasizing the end-result of the process. The lesson is best taught after students have already covered the basics of DNA, cell anatomy and cell division, including meiosis. The objective of this as
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-LS3-2
Chemical Change STEM Lab NGSS Middle School Experiment MS-PS1-2 MS-ETS1-1
This FUN and ENGAGING NGSS middle school STEM lab investigation challenges students to design their own experiment and gather evidence to prevent pennies from going through a chemical reaction and can be used to meet the Next Generation Science Standards Performance Expectation MS-PS1-2. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. In this 2-3 day inquiry-based and engineering lesson, student
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Complete Guide to Organizing or Running a School Science Fair
Simple and Easy step by step guide to planning an entire school Science Fair!!As a 5th grade Science teacher, I have been the one in charge of organizing and running the school’s Science Fair each year. When I first found out that I was the sole person in charge of making sure the Science Fair ran smoothly, I almost cried! I had no idea how to put something so big together! Just a few years later, I had it down to a “Science”.Here is a packet you can use to help you put together the Science Fair
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Everything 5th Grade Science Mega Bundle (TEKS & NGSS)
Earth's Natural Resources Research Project
A research project for students to research and gain a deeper understanding of natural resources and the current problems facing the world. Includes requirements, sample project ideas, and brainstorming topics.Standard:(iii) Energy resources are available on a renewable, nonrenewable, or indefinite basis. Understanding the origins and uses of these resources enables informed decision making. Students should consider the ethical/social issues surrounding Earth's natural energy resources, while lo
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