Thanksgiving STEM Project - How to Catch a Turkey - STEAM Into Reading
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Are you ready for an engaging Thanksgiving STEAM / STEM lesson? This resources is perfect for grades 2-5! You've heard of STEAM and STEM, but how about STREAM? The 'R' stands for reading and is such an important part of our day. In these activities, we are linking STEAM projects to a read aloud. This pack is dedicated to the picture book, "How to Catch a Turkey," by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. Students are asked to build a turkey trap and they must stay within a budget and can only use certain materials to build a trap that will stop all the craziness caused by the turkey!
Your kids will have a blast with this book and the activities included in this Thanksgiving STEM project. There is enough included where you could focus on this book for an entire day OR you could come back to this a few times during the week. Because multiple subjects are integrated into this pack, you will find many ways to use the contents. Your students will love participating in this engineering project in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving STEM Project - How to Catch a Turkey - STEAM Into Reading Includes:
- Ideas on how to integrate into engineering, science, math, reading, and writing
- Point of View posters including graphic organizers to help students rewrite the book from the 3rd person point of view
- Point of View Posters for both 1st and 3rd person
- Science lesson asking students to explore turkeys
- Engineering project
- STEAM Bucks to help students learn math while completing their engineering project
- Reflection pages for students
The activities included in this Thanksgiving STEM Project pack are perfect for the month of November! In this pack, there is everything you need to link the story to multiple areas. Begin by reading the story to your students. Kids are never too old to be read to, and this book is so much fun!
Additional Materials Needed for this Thanksgiving STEM Project:
- Dowels
- Foil
- Cups
- Tape
- Paper (cardstock would be best)
- String
- Rope
- Long dowel
- Pulley (you can get away with not using a pulley for this project, but this would work out best).
- Carabiner
See What Other Teachers Are Saying . . .
⭐ This was a great STEM project to do around thanksgiving. The kids had a lot of fun with it and made them really work on team building and problem solving skills.
⭐ Awesome thanksgiving activity for our entire family. Everyone loved it so much we have decided to make this a new thanksgiving tradition. I'm so happy I made this purchase. It's the perfect family activity for home-school families or traditional school families.
⭐ I love this resource. It was great to use with my 6th grade during our short week of school. My students loved making turkey traps.
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