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The guiding question for this activity is,“What design will help your car move the fastest and farthest?” In this activity, students will build b...
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The guiding question for this activity is,“How does a Cartesian diver work?” In this activity, students make Cartesian divers and are challenged t...
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The guiding questions for this activity are,“What is a chemical reaction and how can you tell when a chemical reaction occurs?” In this activity, ...
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The guiding questions for this activity are,“How is potential energy stored and how is potential energy converted to kinetic energy?” Different si...
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The guiding question for this activity is,“How does a hovercraft work? In this activity, students use film canisters to make a hovercraft. A detaile...
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The guiding question for this activity is,“How is light reflected?” In this activity, students make kaleidoscopes to experiment with light. A scie...
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The guiding question in this activity is,“How do our lungs help us breathe?” In this activity, students use recycled water bottles with a cut ball...
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The guiding questions in this activity are,“Are all rocks formed the same way and how does rock change during the rock cycle?” Rocks are constantl...
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The guiding question in this activity is,“How does energy flow through an ecosystem?” You will need to purchase sterilized owl pellets from a repu...
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The guiding question for this activity is,“How can you design a paper airplane to go the farthest distance?” In this activity, students make pape...
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The guiding question in this activity is,“Do all liquids have the same density?” Students use plastic specimen collection tubes that are purchased...
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The guiding question in this activity is,“How does a circuit work?” Old Christmas light strands work great for this activity to help students unde...
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Investigating Environmental Changes, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume i...
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Let’s Explore Environmental Changes Over Time!
In this lesson, students consider the various types of environmental changes that occur over time and participate in a class investigation of the caus...
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Planning Our Outdoor STEM Classroom
This lesson introduces students to the engineering design process (EDP) as a way to plan and construct an outdoor STEM classroom. Students will use th...