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Middle school engineering resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
Engineering Design Process PowerPoint, Notes & Exam - Google Slides
About this Product:All items in this product are 100% EDITABLE and DIFFERENTIATED. The product includes:• PowerPoint Presentation (43 differentiated slides)• Scaffolded Notes (differentiated and modified/completed notes included)• Summative Examination (differentiated and answer key included)• Copies of the Presentation, Notes and Exam saved as Google App Files (read below)Important Notes:• Download a FREE PowerPoint, Notes & Exam to learn more about my resources• Save $$$ with the Nature of
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Engineering Design Process: PowerPoint and Activities
This introduction to engineering includes a presentation in both PowerPoint and Google Slides formats, with notes as well as 3 engineering activities. Students will be introduced to Engineering and the Engineering Design Process. They will then have 3 opportunities to engage in the process. Easily accessible materials makes this very doable in your classroom. In addition to the 14 slide presentation, the activities include:Activity 1: Float Your Boat: Students go through the engineering de
Grades:
3rd - 6th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jessica (Tennessee 5th Grade Science)
Boat Building STEM Activity
This activity will lead your students through the process of building a boat!
1) Brainstorm and sketch a design
2) Calculate the cost of materials needed
3) Build your boat
4) Test your boat
5) Reflect
*It's important to note that this comes in an editable PowerPoint, so you will be able to customize this activity to your needs. For example, if your class is learning about decimals in math, you could change the cost of materials to decimal numbers. Voila...cross-curricular connections! Don't w
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Types:
STEM Water Pollution FILTER Design Project Lab EARTH DAY MS-ESS3-3, MS-ETS1-2
Tap into your students’ creativity as they engineer, design and create water filters as part of a STEM unit on water pollution and primary sewage treatment discussing human impact on the environment. This follows the MS-ESS3-3 EARTH AND HUMAN ACTIVITY standards and the MS-ETS1-2 and MS-ETS1-3 ENGINEERING DESIGN standards. The challenge is for the students to use household materials to create layers in their water bottle filters to clean a batch of teacher created “dirty water”. Once they have h
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ETS1-3
Also included in: 10 STEM PROJECTS For Middle School- Physics, Life, Environmental Science
STEM Bell Ringers Discussion Questions Warm-Ups Middle School High School
Science bell ringer discussion questions, technology bell ringers, as well as some engineering and math topics. This resource includes 70 editable slides with questions to get your students thinking about STEM topics. Display these at the start of class one day a week so that as students walk into your classroom they can begin forming opinions and ideas about these thought-provoking questions! CONTENTS70 Slides (each with a main question and some with a follow-up question) Questions range in top
Grades:
5th - 12th
STEM Challenge: Egg Drop PPT - Grades 5-8
The Egg-ceptional Packaging Egg Drop STEM Challenge is sure to provide lasting memories for your students as a fun Easter, spring break, back to school, end of school, or anytime it is warm outside activity! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, measurement, and scientific engineering skills!
This product presents a scenario to the students where the CEO of the Egg-ceptional Packaging Plant is needing scientists to design an egg package that would protect
Grades:
5th - 8th
5th Grade Science: Shadow Length and Direction NGSS 5-ESS1-2 Aligned Lesson
5th Grade Science: Shadow Length and Direction NGSS 5-ESS1-2 Aligned LessonYou don't have to go outside to teach about shadows. With PowerPoint presentations, a video, hands-on lab exercises, and an explanatory reading passage, students will discover how shadows change in direction and size during the day in their classroom.This Project provides two instructional PowerPoint presentations to set up and perform this experiment. Teachers will only need to duplicate forms and supply scissors, glu
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
NGSS:
5-ESS1-2
Also included in: NGSS Fifth Grade Science Curriculum Bundle | Phenomena-Based Lessons!
Thanksgiving STEM Challenge: The Great Turkey Race - PPT - Grades 5-8
The Thanksgiving STEM Challenge: The Great Turkey Race will get your students thinking and team-building in those days leading up to Thanksgiving Break! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills.
This product presents a scenario to the students where the turkeys on Farmer Dave's farm must win a race to prevent them from being the main entree at a Thanksgiving feast. The turkeys decide they need a
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle, Volume 1 - Grades 5-8 - PPT
Gingerbread House STEM Challenge (Editable!)
This Gingerbread House STEM Challenge is a great way to add academic rigor to a fun activity before Winter Break! Students will:1) Design their house2) Budget expenses3) Build (and make additional supply purchases, as necessary)4) ReflectThis product comes in an editable PowerPoint, so you can customize the activity to your grade level and needs. For example, for fifth grade students the costs are written as decimals. For younger students, the costs could be changed to whole numbers. Want your s
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Types:
Technology and the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint with Student Notes
Technology and the Engineering Design Process PowerPoint with Student Notes is a highly engaging PowerPoint to use with your middle school students. Slides are editable, so you can add or delete to meet the exact needs of your own class! Several slides have a “Stop & Discuss” question to get your students thinking and promote discussion within your class. Five pages of fill in the blank (scaffolded) student notes are included, along with a complete teacher answer key that matches the st
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Aeronautics & Aerodynamics: 13 Day NO PREP Unit Bundle
The STEM Aircraft Aeronautics & Aerodynamics Unit Bundle is a complete self-contained, multi-week, no prep product. There are FOUR separate lessons, each one with a PowerPoint with embedded video clip links, illustrated Student Guided Scaffolded Notes, Teacher Notes, and a Worksheet with Answers. There are also FIVE Activities! Also included are Two Quizzes and TWO Test Assessments.This is an AWESOME unit for Middle School and High School Students. As a BONUS, there is a 13 Day Unit Plan &am
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
Year-Round STEM Activity Calendar Bundle
Keep students engaged all year long with this bundle of STEM activities for every school break or during school closings! This bundle includes 22 weeks of unique daily STEM activities that can be completed at home. Perfect for summer holidays, spring break, or winter break to keep students learning. Spanish version included for the editable 6-week activity chart! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.Each STEM calendar inc
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-2
...
STEM Survivor 2-Day Design Challenge PowerPoint Lesson
The STEM Survivor 2-Day Design Challenge will get your students thinking and team-building before or after a long break, back to school time, or for those days before the end of the school year. Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills!
This product presents a scenario to the students where a couple has been stranded on an island and must design a retrieval device out of materials washed up on the
Grades:
4th - 9th
Christmas STEM Challenge: Jingle All The Way - PPT - Grades 5-8
This Christmas STEM Challenge: Jingle All The Way will get your students thinking and team-building in those days leading up to Winter Break! Plus, this activity incorporates critical thinking, collaboration, drawing, and measurement in addition to scientific engineering skills.
This product presents a scenario to the students where Santa needs a new sleigh. Students are asked to design a sleigh that is lightweight and sturdy out of common household items that can tolerate the weight of the
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: STEM Challenge Seasonal Bundle, Volume 1 - Grades 5-8 - PPT
Battle Plan Christmas STEM Challenge
Don't be left home alone without your simple machines this Christmas season! This is a ready to use STEM challenge perfect for Christmas! This is a super cute Christmas book and it is a great recap of the movie!!! Even as an adult...I just love this movie!!! The book is pretty great too!!! This STEM challenge uses simple machines and traps!!! Students are asked to engineer and design simple machine traps to stop Harry and Marv from getting inside the McCallister house this Christmas!!! So,
Grades:
3rd - 7th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: Christmas STEM Challenge Bundle
Year Long: STEM Warm-Ups, Bell Ringer
Start your science class right.
Students will look forward to coming to class and seeing what they will be doing each day!
All warm ups are STEM related (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)
Add some STEM each day to your class!
*Good for many ages!
*180 + Engaging Warms Ups (1 for every day of the school year!!)
*Warm ups for various holidays (Valentines, Halloween, and more!)
*Extensions possible!
*Can take 5 minutes but can be extended more!
*Gets students really thinking!
*Expa
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Electrical Circuits PowerPoint and Interactive Journal Notes
If you are looking for a quick and comprehensible way to teach electrical circuits, this presentation and interactive student notes is the resource for you! This lesson includes what is: -Electricity (matter, atoms, electrons etc.)-Electrical current-Electrical circuit-Closed circuit-Open circuit-Diagram of electrical circuits-Conductors vs. Insulators*Answer key is included.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 8th
CCSS:
An introduction to 3D Printing
Includes: PowerPoint, 3D printing videos, 3D printing examples, 10 week program, rubric, worksheets, 3D printer anatomy, safety tips and more
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Staff
Energy Work and Power Physics Presentation PPT With Student Summary Notes
A comprehensive 72-slide PowerPoint product that introduces all major topics in a typical middle school / early high school unit on energy, work, power, energy resources and a bonus section on energy in foods. Topics include: what is energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, measuring energy in joules and kilojoules, energy transfers, energy transfer diagrams, work, power, efficiency, renewable vs. non-renewable energy sources, energy in foods, and reading food labels for energy.PPT Contents:Par
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
Revolution and Rotation Outer Space STEM Challenge - Georgia Science 4th grade
Have fun learning about rotation and revolution with this super engaging STEM Challenge. This is a ready to use STEM challenge connected to Georgia Science Standards of Excellence (S4E2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to model the effects of the position and motion of the Earth and the moon in relation to the sun as observed from the Earth). My PowerPoints are designed as a guide for the teacher and student. They are only a few pages long. I usually just do mini-lessons with my st
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: STEM Challenge Bundle for 3rd to 5th grade
Project Based Learning: The Pringles Project (Engineering/Physics/STEM)
For an in-depth preview and classroom pics from my classroom go here: http://pblparadise.blogspot.com/
Using the Project-Based Learning (PBL) framework students will research, design/develop, and test a contraption that when placed into an enevelope can protect a single Pringles chip while it is delivered by the USPS.
This project takes creativity, engineering and mechanical know-how, communication and collaboration between partners.
You will recieve:
* 38 slide Powerpoint
* Teacher Overview
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 12th
History of Aviation Unit Bundle: NO PREP 13 DAY UNIT! BONUS FILES
The STEM: History of Aviation Aircraft Unit Bundle includes FOUR separate lessons, each one including a PowerPoint with embedded video clip links, illustrated Student Guided Scaffolded Notes, Teacher Notes, and a Worksheet with Answers. There are also TWO Activities, a Study Guide, TWO Quizzes and TWO Tests Assessments. The BONUS File includes THREE Classroom Activities, 12 Daily Five Minute Timed Warm Up PowerPoints, and a Suggested 13 Day Unit Plan. The Activities are:Paper Airplane ActivityHo
Grades:
8th - 12th
Electrical Circuit Arcade Games STRUCTURED STEM PROJECT with Rubrics, Check-ins
Teach electricity while adding structure and assessment to your ELECTRIC CIRCUIT ARCADE GAMES engineering project! (MS-PS2-3, MS-PS2-5). Using electricity to build games can be so much fun and students learn about circuits, insulators and conductors, and the strength of electric forces as they create. In all of the excitement it can be easy for the students to lose their focus so I have created a more structured approach to the engineering process.The students start out with a brainstorming sess
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-5
Also included in: 10 STEM PROJECTS For Middle School- Physics, Life, Environmental Science
Exploring Architecture: Design a Tiny House | Distance Learning
Technology, CTE and Engineering classes are gaining in popularity at the middle school level. This fun exploration of Architecture is perfect for grades 6-8 to learn history, design and explore careers in this field through a variety of computer based projects.Included in this Unit:1.Teacher & Student Resources2.Architect Research Project (PowerPoint) Expectations3.“Tiny House” Research & Design Project (Sketch Up) Expectations4.Careers in Architecture Project (MS Publisher) Expectation
Grades:
6th - 8th
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