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WebQuest and STEM Challenges Bundle for Distance Learning

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This is a bundle of four science WebQuests and STEAM challenges. Now you can have a WebQuest for each quarter! These challenges allow for the students' independence and creativity to shine! They are aligned to the NGSS. Buying this bundle will save you over 30% if you were to buy each product separately.

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Science Poster Bundle for Elementary Grades

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  • Are you a classroom teacher or a science teacher that needs to save yourself some time?
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STEM Lab / Maker Space Starter Kit for Elementary grades BUNDLE

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  • This bundle includes everything you need to get started with your STEM lab. These are all the things I wish I had had when I started my lab!
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Nonfiction Texts with STEM Challenges for Upper Elementary

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  • This is a bundle of four non-fiction texts and coordinating STEM challenges. Now you can have a challenge for each quarter!
  • The challenges are aligned with the NGSS.
  • Recording sheets for use with the readings and complete directions for the challenges are included.
  • These challenges allow the students' independence and creativity to shine!
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Rubric for Engineering and Design Challenges Recording Sheet Worksheet

By Science and STEAM Team

This project rubric was designed with student input. There is a one-page rubric that focuses on self-assessment, but that also has space for students to comment on how their team worked. There is space for teacher comments as well. This is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.

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STEM Challenge Make a Model of a Newly Discovered Animal

By Science and STEAM Team

Your students will love making a model of a newly discovered animal with this STEM Challenge! Students will read a card telling them what habitat they are in and what they need to "observe." Then they will take "field notes." Included are teacher tips and suggestions, task cards, directions for the challenge, and a sheet for students to take notes on, and a rubric so students can self-evaluate their work.

*This activity is included in our fourth grade life science unit.

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Earthquake STEM Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

Your students will love creating a structure that will survive an "earthquake" with this STEM Challenge! Included are teacher tips and suggestions and directions for the challenge.

*This activity is included in our fourth grade earth science unit.

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Engineering and Design Rubric and Posters

By Science and STEAM Team

This set of engineering and design process posters and rubric was designed with student input. There is a one page rubric that focuses on self-assessment, but that also has space for students to comment about how their team worked. There is space for teacher comments as well. There are also 4 color-coded posters to hang in your classroom so students can refer to them and self-monitor as they are working in their collaborative groups. This is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.

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Morse Code STEM Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

Your students will love using Morse Code to send a message with this STEM Challenge! Included are teacher tips and suggestions, directions for the challenge, and a sheet for students to complete their plans on

*This activity is included in our fourth grade physical science unit.

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Bubbles Nonfiction Text and Make Bubble STEM Challenge for Upper Elementary

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This is great science 2-page non-fiction text about bubbles. It is paired with a "make a unique bubble STEM challenge." There is one graphic organizer for independent follow-up work after the reading, specific instructions for the challenge, and an engineering and design process recording sheet. Materials for the challenge are things most teachers have.

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Using Magnets STEM Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

Your students will love designing something that can use magnets to solve a problem with this STEM Challenge! Included are teacher tips and suggestions, a reading about Maglev trains, video suggestion, directions for the challenge, and sheets for students to complete their plans on.

*This activity is included in our third grade physical science unit.

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Engineering and Design Process Recording Sheets

By Science and STEAM Team

These engineering and design recording sheets are made to go the Next Generation Science Standards**.** There is one sheet for lower elementary and one for upper elementary grades.

✅These are the same sheets that are included with our Engineering and Design Process posters and our STEM challenges for elementary grades.

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Paper Airplane STEM Challenge for Teaching Forces and Motion

By Science and STEAM Team

  • Do you want to teach about forces and motion in a fun and engaging way!
  • Your students will love these paper airplane STEM challenges (three levels) and collecting data about their plane's flight!
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Spring Robins Nonfiction for Upper Elementary and Build a Nest Challenge

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  • This is a science non-fiction text about robins written with upper elementary students in mind.
  • Students will learn about the life cycle of a robin as well as about how robins build a nest.
  • It is paired with an engineering challenge that requires the students to gather natural materials and then build a nest that will hold three eggs!
  • There are graphic organizers for students to use after the reading. Directions and planning sheets for the engineering and design challenges are also included.

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Spring Robin WebQuest and Build a Bird Nest STEM Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

This is a highly engaging science WebQuest about robins. Students will be able to read, listen to bird calls, and watch short video clips while learning about robins. It is paired with a Make a Bird Nest STEM challenge. Students will need to gather natural materials and build a nest meeting several mathematical criteria: including width, height, and weight. There are three worksheets that can be completed along with specific instructions for the challenge, and an engineering and design process recording sheet.

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Solar Oven STEM Challenge

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Students will have s'more fun while creating solar ovens! This resource encompasses the NGSS of engineering: as well as several others ( each of which are listed in this resource). Directions for making a solar oven using a pizza box and several other low-cost items, tips and suggestions sheet, and engineering and design process sheet for student use, and a sheet with basic facts about solar ovens are included.

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Paper Towel Absorbency Experiment and Strength Test

By Science and STEAM Team

This STEM resource will help you facilitate a lesson in which students will think of ways to test the absorbency and then the strength of paper towels. Tips and suggestions for the lesson are offered. There are recording sheets as well. This activity is best done in a classroom where students have had access to scientific materials such as beakers, graduated cylinders, gram weights, etc. If these materials aren't readily available cups, coins, marbles, etc. could be used instead.

This resource really gets kids thinking!

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Thanksgiving Wild Turkeys WebQuest and STEM Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

  • Do you want to integrate literacy and science?
  • Do you want to keep your students engaged before the holidays and save yourself time and energy?
  • This is an excellent science WebQuest about wild turkeys.
  • It is paired with a "Make a Turkey that Sits on a Branch" STEM challenge." Materials for the challenge are things most teachers have.

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Wind Turbines Nonfiction Text and STEM Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

  • This is a great science 2-page informational reading passage about windmills and wind turbines.
  • It is paired with a make a wind turbine STEM challenge.
  • This aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards.
  • There is one graphic organizer for independent follow-up work after the reading, specific instructions for the challenge, and an engineering and design process recording sheet. Materials for the challenge are things most teachers have.

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Halloween STEM Spider Webs Reading and Challenge

By Science and STEAM Team

This is great science 2-page non-fiction text about spiders. It is paired with a "make a web with a spider STEM challenge." This aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards. There is one graphic organizer for independent follow-up work after the reading, specific instructions for the challenge, and an engineering and design process recording sheet. Materials for the challenge are things most teachers have.

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