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STEAM Challenge | Paper Airplanes
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students about force and motion, engineering, converting measurements with this fun STEAM Challenge. This lesson includes, educational videos, a virtual field trip and 360 view of the airplanes and cockpits, informational and interactive slides, and a hands-on paper airplane STEAM project.
You will need:
Paper (Copy, Construction Paper, or Card Stock)
Tape
Colored Pencils, markers, and crayons (optional)
Measuring Tape, Ruler, or Yard Stick
STEAM Challenge | Mission to Mars | Minecraft Project | Mars Colony
By Gabriela Maraia
Students will be using Minecraft to create a sustainable colony on Mars!
Students will learn all about Mars and space through detailed slides, vocabulary words, educational videos, and traveling through space to see a virtual field trip to Mars. Then students will research and learn about Mars and how to create their own sustainable colony. Students will be grouped into teams to create their colonies. Lesson includes a google slides lesson, research questions, directions and requirements to the project, and a rubric.
You will need:
Access to Minecraft
Devices
Valentines Day STEAM | Valentines Mail Box | History of Valentine's Day
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students all about the history of Valentine's Day with this fun and interactive STEAM lesson. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, go on a virtual field trip to Italy, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM activity. Students will create their own mailboxes for valentines day!
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STEAM Challenge | Pendulum Art | Laws of Motion | Gravity and Force Lab
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students all about energy, gravity, and Newton's Laws of Motion with this fun STEAM Challenge! Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete comprehension questions, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM Challenge! Students will create their own pendulums to make art!
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STEAM Challenge | What Happened on September 11th? | Digital Lesson | 9/11
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students about September 11th, with this Digital STEAM Lesson. This lesson includes, educational videos, a virtual field trip and 360 view of the 9/11 Museum and Memorial, discussion questions, informational and interactive slides, and a hands-on STEAM project. Students will make their own Memorial Flag and Flagpole in remembrance of September 11th, 2001.
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STEAM Challenge | Egg Drop | Spring Activity | Gravity and Motion
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students all about energy, gravity, and Newton's Laws of Motion with this fun STEAM Challenge! Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, complete comprehension questions, and finish with a fun and engaging STEAM Egg Drop Challenge!
You may need a ladder, as students are tasked to drop their egg 10 FEET!
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STEAM Challenge | Lego Skyscraper| Engineering Challenge
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students about skyscrapers and engineering with this fun STEAM Challenge. This lesson includes, educational videos, a virtual field trip and 360 view of the tallest skyscraper in the world, research and lab questions, informational and interactive slides, and a hands-on STEAM project. It even included a bonus STEAM Challenge, where students take their skyscrapers to the ultimate test and learn about earthquakes!
You will need:
Legos
Measuring Tape, Ruler, or Yard Stick
STEAM Challenge | Build A Bridge | Back to School STEAM | Engineering Challenge
By Gabriela Maraia
Teach your students about different kinds of bridges and engineering with this fun STEM Challenge. It includes videos, a virtual field trip, questions, and descriptions of bridges.
You will need:
Legos (for bridges)
Recyclable materials (to make bridges)
Rulers
Text Books
By Susan Wolfe
Gas Laws: Charles Law Science.
Grades 6-9
Includes: 5 pages of reading with pictures and a video link
Includes 17 Self Grading Questions
Famous Architectural Landmarks Seattle - Brochure, Newspaper | Distance Learning
By Innovations in Technology
In this lesson, students learn more about famous structures and landmarks in Seattle, Washington and the individuals who created them. Students choose the landmarks they will research and then choose the software they will use to showcase their research. Students can choose to create a presentation, a brochure, or a newspaper using Web 2.0 tools (free, no download needed) or by using Microsoft Office or Google Apps. For classrooms with limited technology, this lesson can be completed with students working in pairs or small groups. The completed presentations can be shared with the rest of the class if the teacher chooses.
This is a great activity for a social studies or history class, or for a technology class. This lesson was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary grades or high school as well.
This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.
Materials Required:
Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)
Access to Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides (optional – students can use Web 2.0 tools instead)
Files included:
Approximate Lesson Duration:
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Architecture in Seattle - Google Earth Project | Distance Learning
By Innovations in Technology
Lesson Overview
In this lesson, students learn more about famous structures and landmarks in Seattle, Washington and the individuals who created them. Students choose the landmarks they will research and then create a presentation using Google Earth to showcase their information along with pictures, videos and maps. Included with the lesson are student expectations, grading rubric and a tutorial for Google Earth (a free, Web 2.0 tool that does not require download). For classrooms with limited technology, this lesson can be completed with students working in pairs or small groups. The completed presentations can be shared with the rest of the class if the teacher chooses.
This is a great activity for a social studies or history class, or for a technology class. This lesson was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary grades or high school as well.
Materials Required:
· Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)
· Access to Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides (optional – students can use Web 2.0 tools instead)
Files included:
· Teacher & Student Resources
· Student Instructions, Expectations and Grading Rubric
· Google Earth Getting Started Tutorial
Approximate Lesson Duration:
· Introduction to the Lesson: Video (link below), overview of the project - .5 - 1 (50 minute) class period
· Research and Google Earth Project: 2-4 (50 minute) class periods
· Presentation of projects to class (optional): Time will vary based on how many presentations are shown and time for discussion
This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.
Note: This lesson replaces Architecture in Seattle - Google Tour Builder Project | Distance Learning (Google Tours is discontinued as of 7/2021).
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Digital Engineering Notebook - Fully Editable in PowerPoint & Google Slides
By Innovations in Technology
These fully editable, general Engineering Notebook pages allow students to keep their notebooks on the computer using either Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides. Teachers digitally send students the page(s) they need for the lesson via Google Drive (or other file sharing) or through a LMS such as Google Classroom or Edmodo. Students then add the specific sheet to their file (digital notebook) and complete, following the teacher’s instructions.
These are GENERAL sheets (see list below) that can be used with most lessons in an engineering class, STEM class or an engineering unit in a science class. They are not lesson specific and do not include actual questions or activities.
These were designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary or high school as well.
Files included:
• Teacher & Student Resources (includes instructions for editing, uploading, downloading and sharing)
• Student handout: Instructions for Download and Use
• Fully editable notebook pages in BOTH PowerPoint and Google Slides including:
o Title Page
o Table of Contents
o Note page (plain background)
o Note page (lined background)
o Note page (grid background)
o Classroom procedures page (blank)
o Classroom procedures page (editable suggested procedures included)
o Guidelines for using the Notebook page (blank)
o Guidelines for using the Notebook page (editable suggested guidelines included)
o Safety Procedures page (blank)
o Safety Procedures page (editable suggested safety guidelines)
o Grading Procedures page (blank)
o Grading Procedures page (editable suggested grading procedures and rubric)
o “What Did I Accomplish Today” questions page (suitable as a daily recap/exit activity)
o KWL template page (blank)
o Vocabulary template page (blank)
o Engineering Design Process Flow Chart template (steps included, otherwise blank)
o Venn Diagram template (blank)
o Venn Diagram (editable includes topics to compare inventions and innovations)
o Two Column Topic Comparison Chart template (blank)
o Two Column Topic Comparison Chart (editable includes headings for Engineering careers/classes
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