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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners

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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Use these STEM design challenges to foster creativity and critical thinking skills in young learners while introducing them to the engineering process.

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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners

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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners

Use these STEM design challenges to foster creativity and critical thinking skills in young learners while introducing them to the engineering process.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Kindergarten

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

First Grade

Reading

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Kindergarten

Measurement

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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise

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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Children will plan our their STEM design, reflect on the process of building their creation, and brainstorm ways they could make their design even better.

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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise

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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise

Children will plan our their STEM design, reflect on the process of building their creation, and brainstorm ways they could make their design even better.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Worksheet

Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Activity

Magnifying Glass Coloring Page

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Magnifying Glass Coloring Page

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Budding scientists record their observations with this open-ended magnifying glass template!

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Magnifying Glass Coloring Page

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Magnifying Glass Coloring Page

Budding scientists record their observations with this open-ended magnifying glass template!

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Worksheet

Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Activity

A Five Senses Adventure

Lesson Plan

A Five Senses Adventure

Kindergarten

Phonics

This five senses inspired lesson will get your students excited about using their observation skills as they go on a classroom scavenger hunt!

Lesson Plan

A Five Senses Adventure

Lesson Plan

A Five Senses Adventure

This five senses inspired lesson will get your students excited about using their observation skills as they go on a classroom scavenger hunt!

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Robot Around the Block

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Robot Around the Block

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

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Robot Around the Block

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Robot Around the Block

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Stretch Your Brain with Optical Illusions!

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Stretch Your Brain with Optical Illusions!

Kindergarten

Life Science

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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Stretch Your Brain with Optical Illusions!

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Stretch Your Brain with Optical Illusions!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

This science and writing inspired lesson combines the five senses with weather predictions! Kindergarten students will love practicing their observation skills as they imagine tomorrow’s weather.

This science and writing inspired lesson combines the five senses with weather predictions! Kindergarten students will love practicing their observation skills as they imagine tomorrow’s weather.

Kindergarten

Life Science

Lesson Plan

Think Like a Scientist: Observe, Sort, and Classify

Lesson Plan

Think Like a Scientist: Observe, Sort, and Classify

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Scientists observe and classify the world around them! In this lesson, your students will practice their processing skills by observing a group of objects and grouping the objects based on their attributes.

Lesson Plan

Think Like a Scientist: Observe, Sort, and Classify

Lesson Plan

Think Like a Scientist: Observe, Sort, and Classify

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Lesson Plan

The Role of Fat in Food

Activity

The Role of Fat in Food

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

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The Role of Fat in Food

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The Role of Fat in Food

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Discovering the Best Water for Plants

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Discovering the Best Water for Plants

Kindergarten

Life Science

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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Discovering the Best Water for Plants

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Discovering the Best Water for Plants

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Kindergarten

Life Science

Activity

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources for 'critical thinking'

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Kindergarten and 1st Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Resources for 'critical thinking'