Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade
Encouraging students, from a young age, to think about their interests, dreams and goals lets them see possibilities for the future. As students listen to their thoughts and put those thoughts into
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade
In this unit, students will identify what a shelter is and why we need it. Students will identify the different types of shelters and materials needed depending on climate and their surroundings
Grades:
4th Grade
Students will learn about melanoma and non cancerous moles and how to spot them through symmetry. They will use Pixlr tools to understand the identification process and then they will create their own
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
In this lesson, students will play a small group coding game to retell the events in the read aloud, If You Take A Mouse To School, and then use the Engineering Design Process to plan, design, and
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
In this lesson, students will be introduced to coding with the read aloud Mouse Count, play a simple Bottle Cap Arrow Game to learn directionality, and learn to program their Code & Go Mice with arrow
Grades:
4th Grade
In this multi-day lesson, 4th-grade students will explore the concept of symmetry in nature using iPads and digital tools. They photograph and edit images of natural objects, then create digital
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Lesson "Phoenix Reimagined: From Sun City to Solar City" ensures that students engage in age-appropriate, hands-on learning experiences that promote understanding of solar energy and its applications
Grades:
4th Grade
What is a tessellation? How do you know if an image is a tessellation, truly? In this lesson, 4th grade students will engage in an examination of images to identify whether or not they are
Grades:
2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
This lesson was for 2nd/3rd graders in an after-school class. Students were not familiar with 3D printing or Tinkercad. We spent 3 days to complete. Day 1 was learning about 3D printing, opening
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
Students will use Tinkercad's website to create a 3D box and lid. I provide step-by-step Google Slides on how students create this project, share videos of the directions, and additional resources for
Grades:
4th Grade
In this hands-on lesson, students work collaboratively in groups to design models to represent the relative positions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon as they relate to each of the 8 phases of the moon
Grades:
Kindergarten
Kindergarten students will be given a STEM case to solve! The goal is to build a bridge for two different sized/weight of vehicles. Students will research types of bridges and decide which bridge will
Grades:
Kindergarten
This lesson provides the opportunity for kindergarten students to develop a mock oil spill and develop methods to help ocean life after an oil spill. Student will hypothesize methods that can
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
In this lesson students will explore bugs and their attributes. Students will also understand the difference between an insect and a bug, use math skills such as counting and symmetry, and also have
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
This hands-on lesson is to help students create geometric shapes by writing code to allow their robot to create the assigned shape. Students learn about algorithms as they explore the basics of coding
Grades:
Kindergarten
The lesson connects STEM and Literacy with this amazing Read Aloud STEM Activity. In the story, the character shares her passion for math. She finds lots of places that she sees math in her world. One
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade
Using my backyard chickens as inspiration, this 5th grade lesson asks children to graph egg production and build a model of a chicken coop and run.
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade
Students will learn about kinetic and potential energy and how energy transfers. They will use that knowledge in order to collaborate with peers to create a roller coaster that will demonstrate this
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
After listening to the story Gingerbread Cowboy, students will use the Engineering Design Process to build a bridge for the Gingerbread Cowboy to safely cross the river.
Grades:
4th Grade
Students will be able to identify, understand and describe acute, obtuse, right, scalene, isosceles and equilateral triangles and use this knowledge to perform at the Sphero Rodeo! This lesson
Grades:
Kindergarten
Students will collaborate to design a school map to include living and nonliving 3-dimensional objects. Students will use a Cubetto or Sphero device to navigate through a student created map
Grades:
Kindergarten
This is a Kindergarten lesson that will teach students how snowflakes form. Students will then explore and discuss the patterns and shapes in a snowflake. Students will design and build snowflakes
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
This lesson is called shape sculpture and the students will fashion a sculpture out of celluclay. Initially the students will create a 2D drawing of a cake design (or cupcake or doughnut depending on
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Math is All Around Us
Grades:
Kindergarten
Inspired by the picture book, "Count on Me," Kindergarten students will demonstrate the Engineering Design Process by collaboratively creating a model of a new toy for their playground, observing the
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Makey Makey Storyboards
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson takes students through the process of creating an interactive storyboard using a Makey Makey circuit board. This lesson can be adjusted for any grade level with examples given in the 4th
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Sphero Rocket Payload Mission
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson uses Sphero's "Rocket Payload" activity with the Outer Space Mat. The full lesson includes information on rocket payload, a Sphero coding challenge, a NASA link to read, optional questions
Grades:
1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
This lesson using Ozobot is centered around a favorite read aloud, "When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left". This story is about perseverance. After reading it, students use color code directions and