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Middle school engineering handouts
39 Digital Moveable Tangram Puzzle Activities STEM Team Building Math
Have fun with your students while they solve these Tangram Puzzle Activities! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a Google Slide version of the Following:39 Digital interactive Moveable Tangram Puzzles and their answers as well as a printable version. Your students will be able to move the tangrams into posit
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
STEM Electromagnetism Challenge: Build an Electromagnet
Looking for a great hands-on lab for electromagnetism? Build an electromagnet! This STEM lab is a hit every year in my 8th grade physical science course. Materials are cheap and easy to find. Students are engaged, it's doable, and there is a WOW factor!Students not only build an electromagnet, but test to see the affect the number of turns has on the strength of their electromagnet. Data is collected, graphed, and analyzed.The following is provided:►Teacher guide, with pictures and directions►Tw
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Physical Science Curriculum
TinkerCAD step-by-step instructions for Skateboard
TinkerCAD step-by-step instructions for Skateboard. Students only needs to know the bare basics to complete this. I tested this with a fifth-grade class and most could complete it with no help. Designed to print with no supports for easy printing.
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: TinkerCAD step-by-step instructions ALL ITEMS BUNDLE PACKAGE!
Back to School STEM: 6 Icebreaker Teamwork Activities
Before 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.Stage 1 STEM activities are perfect icebreakers and team challenges to promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. They lay a criticalfoundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a team, students will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity tha
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
15 Mystery Puzzles - Brain Teasers - STEM Project - Team Building - GT
Have fun with your students while they solve these Mystery Puzzles! This set of puzzles is interactive in Google Slide or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills!Great for distance learning!Included is a PDF version and a Google Slide version of the Following:15 Digital interactive Mystery Puzzles and their answers. Your students will learn and have fun at the same time. This project can also be used as a center activity with an i
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Amusement Parks and STEM Activities Bundle
Amusement Parks, Carnivals, and STEM!Problem Solving, Engineering Challenges and Physical Science IntegrationTeachers are saying:"I had groups work on the various pieces of the amusement park. It was wonderful to see all the ideas and engineering going into it. It was one of those projects where they loved it and had no idea they were learning something!""Thank you for such a great resource! This is very engaging and usable for all of my students.""Great resource for my multi-level classroom."
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4th - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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TinkerCAD step-by-step instructions for Spinning Top
TinkerCAD step-by-step instructions for Spinning Top. Students only needs to know the bare basics to complete this. I tested this with a fifth-grade class and most could complete it with no help. Designed to print with no supports for easy printing.
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5th - 12th
Also included in: TinkerCAD step-by-step instructions ALL ITEMS BUNDLE PACKAGE!
Back to School Icebreakers: 5 Get To Know You Activities
Do you need a way to connect with your students for back to school? Are you looking to build a meaningful relationship that will last all year? Find the distance learning version of these activities here. This download includes 5 interactive icebreaker activities that will help educators get to know their students and build a strong relationship. Activities are centered around the theme of student sparks. Sparks were developed by the Search Institute, who explains them as follows: “Sparks are th
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Tower STEM Challenges: 5 Icebreaker Activities
Towers are a great STEM activity to promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. This challenge lays a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.These activities take no more than 20 minutes as the
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K - 9th
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Kinematics Bundle No. 3: Position & Velocity vs Time Graphs
In this time saving kinematics bundle from my TpT store you get everything you need to teach Position vs Time Graphs and Velocity vs Time Graphs. This includes 4 pages of handout notes and over 20 pages of exercises with answer keys. Also included is a presentation covering the transformation of position vs time graphs to velocity vs time graphs to acceleration vs time graphs. No Preparation Necessary! Just Download and Go! All the notes, exercises and solutions are included as PDFs and editable
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Speed Velocity Acceleration Motion A Christmas Story Physics Practice Problems
An original “A Christmas Story” movie themed physics worksheet to help students practice working with the formulas for speed, velocity, and acceleration. There are three levels of the worksheet and a BONUS coloring page that you could optionally include for your students!The top of all of the worksheets reviews (or has space for) the formulas for speed, velocity, and acceleration, along with the 'speed triangle', which helps students manipulate the speed formula to solve for distance or time. Th
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7th - 10th
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Movie Questions ANSWERS | MOVIE GUIDE Worksheet
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind movie questions (released 2019) help keep students engaged throughout the film by providing 27 questions for them to answer to keep them on track. The The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind movie guide comes with a key that has suggested answers provided at the end.The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind worksheet follows along as a 13-year-old boy is thrown out of the school he loves when his family can no pay this bill so he sneaks into the library and learns how to build a windm
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4th - 12th
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STEM and Maker Space Notebook for Students
Back to School STEM Resource!Want to Get Organized? The STEM and Maker Space Notebook packet for students is ready for you!Starting a STEM program at your school? Need some basic ideas to get you started?We have put together 43 pages of general information that includes an overview for teachers, support materials, and generic student notebooks for a STEM project or a Maker Space that could be used with any project. We have included:STEM and Engineering IntroductionEngineering Design Process Po
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1st - 8th
Also included in: STEM Activities | Fifty Lessons Mega Bundle
Pumpkins Catapult STEM Project
STEM Mini"Punkin Chuckin"An Engineering Exploration of Levers and ForcesSTEM Engineering Challenge for Halloween or a Harvest Party!Autumn means Pumpkin Chucking Time - an awesome STEM activity! No pumpkin chucking catapults near your location? No problem...hold your own mini contest with this fun activity that reinforces knowledge of simple machines. Grab a bag of candy mini pumpkins, some spools or small plastic vials, and some paint stirrers and you are good to go! Our packet walks your stude
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2nd - 7th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Catapults and STEM Bundle with Levers and Forces
Newspaper STEM Challenges: 3 Engineering Activities
Do you have a ton of newspapers and in need of some newspaper STEM challenges? Read below for three easy and progressively more challenging newspaper STEM challenges you can do right away!Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.These engineering design activities promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. This activities lay a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a team
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Bottle Rockets STEM Challenge & Lesson Plan- Editable
Description:Do you need a fun hands-on STEM challenge for the end of the school year? This Bottle Rocket Challenge is the perfect way to keep middle school students engaged during the last week of school. Students will work in groups to design a rocket with a 2-liter bottle and launch it outside with an Aquapod launcher. Students will work through the engineering design process to create their rocket and there is an option to have students connect their rocket design to physical science concepts
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5th - 8th
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MS-ETS1-1
Electricity and Magnetism Puzzle Page (Wordsearch & Criss-Cross / Science / SUB)
SCIENCE VOCABULARY PUZZLE - ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISMGRADES: 6-9This puzzle and definition download is perfect to use as lesson work, sub plans, homework, extra credit, or to keep your early finishers engaged and working!Each puzzle uses the same terms so you can allow students to pick their favorite! Perfect to build spelling and word recognition in either science or language arts class.INCLUDED WITH THIS PURCHASE:1 - ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM WORDSEARCH2 - ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM VOCAB
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: SCIENCE VOCABULARY PUZZLES SUPER BUNDLE - NO PREP / SUB / TERMS
Visual Puzzles Illusions - 29 Brain Teasers - STEM Project - Team Building - GT
Have fun with your students while they solve these Visual Puzzles or Illusions! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a PDF version and a Google Slide version of the Following:29 Digital interactive Mystery Puzzles and their secrets. Your students will learn and have fun at the same time. This project can also
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5th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Technical Drawing Skill-Builders for Virtual Remote Distance Learning
Teaching technical drawing remotely is tough. I started this year with my engineering design students wondering how I could help them build their hand sketching skills without being in the classroom to draw with pencil, paper, and drafting tools. Asking students to photograph or scan drawings at home proved to be a fruitless endeavor, so I developed these skill-builders just for the occasion!Each of the worksheets in this bundle was designed from the ground up for virtual learning, but they can
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7th - 10th
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STEM Engineering Design Process Graphic Organizers for Note Taking
Students are expected to utilize the steps of the Engineering Design Process in order to solve problems or meet challenges in STEM class. These organizers are a perfect way for them to record notes about each step of the design process. Knowing what should occur at each step will improve their ability to meet the expectations set by the teacher.
Use these templates as a note taking aid for students as they learn about the Engineering Design Process. Students could also use the graphic organize
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3rd - 6th
Science & Engineering Practices NGSS Posters
NGSS practices will be far more easier to teach with these informative posters! They are full of information, images, and examples to help students understand what each of the 8 practices LOOK like when they are routinely performed in class. You can continuously refer to these posters during any of your lessons. The practices include:Asking Questions and Defining ProblemsDeveloping and Using ModelsPlanning and Carrying Out InvestigationsAnalyzing and Interpreting DataConstructing Explanations an
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: NGSS Bundle: Essentials for Implementation
Innovative/Growth Mindset STEM Bell Ringer Journal - 100 Prompts
Perfect for Robotic & STEM Class!!This product provides teachers with an entire semester (TWO 9 WEEKS) of ENGINEERING innovative/growth mindset related journal prompts in an organized and focused way. The 20 worksheets are organized by weeks with Monday through Friday entries each page. Students will strengthen their writing and critical thinking skills with these unique, higher level thinking bell ringers. This resource covers:✏ 100 unique STEM/ENGINEERING bell ringer prompts✏ MONDAYS: Inte
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6th - 12th
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Engineering Design Complete Unit {NGSS 3-5-ETS1 and MS-ETS1 Aligned}
Give your students a complete introduction to engineering and the engineering design process in a fun and engaging way! Students are introduced to engineering before choosing a branch of engineering to research. Guided research is provided with websites and questions for students to answer. Students then pair up to teach each other about their branch of engineering before completing an attractive engineering poster. Great to hang in the classroom or hallway to show student work and collaborat
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4th - 8th
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MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: 5th Grade Science Bundle
Famous Scientists Research Project- Engineers for Middle School
Description:Do you want to expose your students to a diverse group of engineers? This resource contains 12 different engineers that have accomplished amazing things! Students get to select one engineer from the PowerPoint/Google slides, research that person (links to websites are included), and then create a one-pager about their person. This is a fun lesson that gives students a lot of choice and allows them to be creative in how they display their research on the one-pager. This lesson typical
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Famous Scientist Research Project Bundle
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