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Makey Makey Storyboards
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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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Kindergarten
Students will practice reading sight words using Sphero Indi coding paths. Students will design and then create a path for Indi to follow. They will be given a set of sight words and will lay one
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
During this novel study, students will build background knowledge on water scarcity focusing on both physical and economic water scarcity. Students will learn the definition of scarcity, view a
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Kindergarten
STEM Read-aloud Lesson The Mitten by Jan Brett. Students will listen to The Mitten and be inspired to research animals, their form and function, and their habitats. Students will then complete a slide
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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:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
An overall view of mining, minerals, and their role in our everyday life. This lesson compares the past, present and future of mining and it's relativity to sustaining our way of life.
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade
This is a lesson plan made to target the fifith grade standard on how noncontact forces impact one another. It can be adapted to grades 5-12. Students will explore magnetism and polarization, research
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Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Most students are likely familiar with popular films like Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, Penguins of Madagascar, and classic books like Mr. Popper's Penguins. Capitalizing on this familiarity with penguins
Grades:
Kindergarten
Students will design and build a boat for the Gingerbread Man using aluminum foil, straws, and popsicle sticks. They will test and improve their designs while learning about buoyancy and basic
Grades:
6th Grade
Students discover how plants and soils interact by observing root growth, considering the function of a plant’s roots, modeling the movement of water into the roots, and investigating the movement of
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Students will learn about the engineering design process by working in small groups to identify a problem, then design and create a solution, inspired by the main character's creativity and problem
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
Using the book There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea, students will participate in a lesson about desert animals, learn facts about coyotes, then work in small groups to code "coyote" robots to
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
Teachers don't talk trash, they talk COMPOST!! Compost is the best way to teach students the value of community as they create a Classroom Compost Program. In this 3-day introductory lesson, students
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
Students will explain how the apples are changing numbers through stem challenges and physical tests in this early childhood lesson.
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Kindergarten
Students will explain the difference between sink and float through hands on experiences in this early childhood lesson.
Grades:
6th Grade
Students will research and use math calculations to set up a classroom worm compost bin to compare to a classroom non-worm compost bin to be utilized for observation throughout the school year for
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
This is the 4th lesson plan in a set of 4 lessons that correspond to the novel "Space Case" by Stuart Gibbs. In the last chapters of the book, we find that this main character encounters robotic arms
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson, students are introduced to RVR (Sphero) robots and program their robot to drive over to kindergarten students and read aloud a book. Younger students enjoy the ability to work with a
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
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Kindergarten
In this creative and engaging lesson, students will listen to the read-aloud, "The Most Magnificent Thing" by A. Spires and complete a STEM challenge. Students engineer a doghouse with moving parts
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Zippy the Elf's Zipline Zone
Grades:
6th Grade
In this creative engineering design lesson, students are challenged to use an inclined plane to create a safe and exciting zipline park for Zippy the Elf. This lesson reviews simple machines and has
Grades:
Kindergarten
Students will ask questions and carry out a collaborative investigation to determine which ingredients produce the best Cloud Dough. Students will use their 5 Senses to modify and adjust the recipe as
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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