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Applying the Standards: STEM, Grade 4
$9.99
Applying the Standards: STEM for fourth grade offers 64 pages of highly engaging STEM tasks. It includes a problem-solving rubric and guided pages that walk students through completing each step of the STEM process. Fourth graders will complete tasks in areas such as water filtration, bridge engineering, simple machines, catapult physics, and light. The Applying the Standards: STEM series emphasizes creativity and innovation in science, technology, engineering, and math. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten through grade 5. A variety of topics are covered with 30 engaging tasks, and a culminating reflection question for each task encourages students to think about and apply their newfound learning and knowledge.
STEAM Design Challenges, Grades 6-8
$19.99
Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!
Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!
This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:
The STEAM Design Challenges in this 152-page book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grades 6-8 to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed.
These engaging STEAM lessons:
Engineering Design Process
The lessons in this book are intended to support the engineering design process in which teachers become a facilitator by encouraging and guiding students to work as a team to find a creative solution to a real-world problem without providing step-by-step instructions. Students are inspired to act as scientists and engineers through the use of sketches, diagrams, mathematical relationships, and literacy connections. By creating their very own models and products based on background information from their studies, students are immediately engaged through a meaningful, rewarding lesson.
More about the lessons
Each lesson begins by presenting students with a design challenge scenario in order to immediately exite students with a real-world situation that they are on a mission to solve. Students are then given a dilemma, mission, and blueprint design sheet and are asked to collaborate with team members to create several prototypes. Students present their prototypes to their teacher, construct their design, test their design, engage in a class discussion about their design, and then modify their design. Finally, teams create a justification piece in order to sell their new prototype (ex. persuasive letter, video, advertisement etc.).
About the Authors
The Steam Dreamers, a group of four classroom teachers, desired to create more interactive learning environments and science classrooms through student-centered problem-solving lessons. They created this collection of cross-curricular design challenge lessons to provide teachers and students with real-world scenarios that are driven by core learning standards and enriched through the inclusion of literacy and the arts.
Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!
This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:
- A year's worth of teacher lesson plans
- STEAM design challenges that turn middle school students into inventors
- Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson)
- Classroom-tested lessons
The STEAM Design Challenges in this 152-page book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grades 6-8 to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed.
These engaging STEAM lessons:
- Integrate the Next Generation Science Standards and national standards from other disciplines
- Enhance learning across various disciplines
- Facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios
- Promote critical thinking, analytical thinking, and reflective thinking
- Incorporate the Five Es Instructional Model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate)
- Are classroom tested
Engineering Design Process
The lessons in this book are intended to support the engineering design process in which teachers become a facilitator by encouraging and guiding students to work as a team to find a creative solution to a real-world problem without providing step-by-step instructions. Students are inspired to act as scientists and engineers through the use of sketches, diagrams, mathematical relationships, and literacy connections. By creating their very own models and products based on background information from their studies, students are immediately engaged through a meaningful, rewarding lesson.
More about the lessons
Each lesson begins by presenting students with a design challenge scenario in order to immediately exite students with a real-world situation that they are on a mission to solve. Students are then given a dilemma, mission, and blueprint design sheet and are asked to collaborate with team members to create several prototypes. Students present their prototypes to their teacher, construct their design, test their design, engage in a class discussion about their design, and then modify their design. Finally, teams create a justification piece in order to sell their new prototype (ex. persuasive letter, video, advertisement etc.).
About the Authors
The Steam Dreamers, a group of four classroom teachers, desired to create more interactive learning environments and science classrooms through student-centered problem-solving lessons. They created this collection of cross-curricular design challenge lessons to provide teachers and students with real-world scenarios that are driven by core learning standards and enriched through the inclusion of literacy and the arts.
We Are Engineers! Bulletin Board Set
$12.99
Help budding engineers develop their STEM skills with this colorful collection featuring the steps in the Engineering Design Process. Students will love adding their photos under the We Are Engineers! banner. A great addition to any classroom.
Includes 56 pieces:
• We Are Engineers! banner (23" x 12")
• The Engineering Design Process banner (23" x 12.75")
• 5 engineering design process cards
• 36 student labels
• 13 cog accents
• Teaching guide
Includes 56 pieces:
• We Are Engineers! banner (23" x 12")
• The Engineering Design Process banner (23" x 12.75")
• 5 engineering design process cards
• 36 student labels
• 13 cog accents
• Teaching guide
STEM Basics, Matchsticks (1,000)
$3.99
These everyday items provide you with the basic materials you need to build your next STEM creation. We provide the "basics," but the rest is up to you, your creativity, and your STEM skills.
Q-BA-MAZE™ 2.0 Deluxe Lights Set
$59.95
Building with Q-BA-MAZE sparks even more creativity when cubes light up as marbles race through! Add gleaming eyes to your dragon maze. Build a marble run that looks like a light bulb and glows like one too! The possibilities are endless and brilliant! The motion-activated cubes flash blue, red, yellow or white every time a marble hits the cube floor. Light-up cubes are battery operated; the batteries are included and can be replaced. All light-up cubes are single exit and compatible with all Q-BA-MAZE 2.0 sets. The Deluxe Set amps up the fun with 8 light-up cubes (2 of each color) that create stunning light show displays. The set also includes 4 straight-away rails and 52 standard cubes for expansive marble mazes and zooming marbles. 20 marbles complete the set.
- One of the most brilliant STEM toys for developing creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- An exciting introduction to the building blocks of engineering and math.
- Includes 8 light-up cubes, 4 rails, 52 colorful cubes and 20 steel marbles.
- Marbles are nickel plated steel balls. They are not magnets.
$34.99
Attract early learners to the wonders of magnetism! STEM lessons are irresistible when you add the excitement of fun, colorful tools to scientific exploration. Durable, playful magnets in a variety of shapes engage children as they explore magnetism, polarity, and magnetic attraction & repulsion.
Includes
Includes
- 2 bar magnets, 2 magnetic bugs, 4 ring magnets, horseshoe magnet, magnetic post, 2 snap-on cars, tray with maze, string, and 10 double-sided Activity Cards. Comprehensive activity guide with reproducible materials is also included.
Botley™ the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set
$19.99
Help Botley™ set off some crashing chain reactions with Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set from Learning Resources. This interactive 41-piece accessory set contains everything kids need to set up STEM-inspired obstacle challenges for Botley to navigate. Kids can follow the instructions inside the included Activity Guide to create 9 obstacle challenges filled with falling dominos, rolling balls, and swinging hammers, or design their own courses using critical thinking skills. Once everything's in place, kids simply code Botley with the desired steps, press transmit on the remote programmer, and watch him get things moving! In addition to building early coding skills, each obstacle course run also introduces fun hands-on lessons in early physics concepts including force and motion. All pieces in the Botley the Coding Robot Action Challenge Accessory Set are compatible with other Botley accessories, making the possible obstacle course builds as countless as they are fun.
41-piece accessory set challenges Botley with fun STEM-inspired chain reaction challenges
Includes
Works with other Botley accessories!
41-piece accessory set challenges Botley with fun STEM-inspired chain reaction challenges
Includes
- falling dominos, swinging hammers, rolling balls, and more physics-inspired accessories
Works with other Botley accessories!
$9.99
Did you know that robots are working in factories, hospitals, and even space? There are large robots, tiny robots, and robots that look like humans. They are all around us, solving problems and completing difficult and dangerous tasks. Read all about the people building robots as well as how robots work and how they may continue to develop in the future.
As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores the latest and greatest in the world of technology. Fascinating text, vivid photos, and real-world examples bring these amazing breakthroughs to life!
Botley™ the Coding Robot Activity Set
$79.99
Meet Botley, the code to fun! As the newest member of the Learning Resources family, Botley introduces coding in an easy, friendly way. Children as young as 5 can learn to code with Botley, and with his advanced features, he'll grow with them for many play-filled years to come. Botley is ready to use right out of the box – he'll have kids coding in minutes. And that's not all that makes Botley unique; he's 100% screen-free, and the only coding robot that includes a 77-piece activity set!
Here are just some of the fun interactive features Botley offers:- Detect objects – and avoid them!
- Follow looping commands
- Navigate obstacle courses
- Follow black lines
Brackitz® Gears, Sprockets & Chains
$149.99
Our newest module, Gears, Sprockets & Chains expands the “engineering go power” of the base Structures module. Gears and chains (like the ones in bicycles) are simple machines. When students learn to design and build with gears they gain hands-on understanding of the principles of motion. Five PreK-6 lessons are available for specific use with this module. Each activity is focused on solving real-world challenges using creativity and problem-based learning approach.
SuperScience® STEM Activity Pack, Grades 4-6
$49.99
This comprehensive pack features 15 engaging topics in life, physical, and earth sciences that support the Next Generation Science Standards. Each topic comes in a self-contained folder with an anchor text from the award-winning SuperScience magazine, multiple copies of two hands-on investigations, companion reproducible recording sheets, management tips, plus links to an online video and bonus activities.
$15.99
Get students fired up about careers in science and math with these fun, fill-in posters! The easy template guides kids through every step in the writing process to ensure a polished report on a standout scientist, tech guru, engineer, or mathematician. A great way to support the all-important STEM initiative! Pack of 30 posters, 17" x 22" each, plus complete teaching guide.