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Science Common Core 6.EE.B.6 resources
STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity #SizzlingSTEM50
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
SBAC and PARCC Test Prep 5th Grade Bundle
SBAC Test. Test Prep. Smarter Balanced Practice Tests (SBAC and PARCC) for 5th Grade. 275 PAGES!!! INCLUDES Math, Science, and ELA! Common Core Aligned!This package of pre-tests will help your students be well prepared for Smarter Balanced (SBAC) and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing. Summative end-of-year testing is all-to-often a taxing and nerve-wracking experience for students and teachers, especially when they don’t know what to expect! Don’t
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4th - 6th
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Bird Nest STEM Challenge (Biomimicry Engineering Activity)
Bird Nest Engineering Design Challenge Students will dive into the engineering design process with this hands-on STEM challenge building a nest to safely catch a falling egg. A follow-up activity teaches biomimicry by relating what was learned in building a bird nest and applying it to designing a landing pad for a space capsule. As a student-driven assignment, the purpose of the teacher is to act as a facilitator. You will provide the structure to the project, but students will take an active r
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
Ultraviolet Light Shelter STEM Challenge (Solar Space Science & Engineering)
Ultraviolet Light Shelter Engineering Design Challenge: Updated with digital journals! Students are on a mission to protect an astronaut from ultraviolet light over-exposure in this engaging STEM challenge. Using UV-sensitive beads, students explore how different materials absorb UV light and use the engineering design process to build a UV-safe shelter. This design challenge allows students to work in teams, apply the engineering design process, and connect science topics to real-world applicat
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Thanksgiving Turkey Nest Challenge Engineering Activity
Thanksgiving Turkey Nest STEM ChallengeStudents will practice the Engineering Design Process with this hands-on STEM challenge building a turkey nest to safely catch a falling egg. A fun twist on the classic egg-drop challenge, this activity is an exciting way to foster critical thinking and team-building skills! An included bonus activity adds an additional theoretical design challenge and writing topic. Students must brainstorm and design a device to protect the newly laid turkey eggs from pre
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3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Fall & Halloween STEM Challenges Activity Bundle
Create a Robot | Input Output Table | STEM Math | Problem Solving Project
Looking for a math / stem project about robots or input-output tables? This resource gives students an opportunity to apply critical thinking, engineering, math and creative art skills as they design a robot and then solve for the "secret" rules in the Input-Output tables. What's included?Project Teacher TipsPre-assessment Admit TicketInput-Output Practice worksheetBackground Reading: Introduction to Input-Output TablesStudent Project DirectionsSuggested Materials for Recycled ProductsProject Te
Math Toolkit: A Math Review and Lab Measurement Practice - Physics Unit Bundle
What is the Math Toolkit and Why do I need to include this unit in my physics or physical science course? The Math toolkit Unit is designed to help your physics students review essential content in their math, problem-solving, unit converting, and laboratory practice skills before digging into all that great content. This is a great unit to start the year out with to ensure your students have all the prerequisite knowledge they need to be successful in the class. Teaching and Planning Made EasyA
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8th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-4
A Long Walk to Water Project
The set of resources will engage students to think critically about their water consumption habits. Through investigation, data collection, analysis, and reflection, students will consider the importance of water and how their own water use may affect the environment. It is an active inquiry into the daily habits that they might take for granted but that can have a big impact on the environment. All the activities also develop skills aligned to Common Core State Standards, such as close reading,
Balloon Rocket Lab Investigation: Newton's Laws of Motion
Students who have been exposed to the Newton's Laws of Motion will love this interactive lab! This lab requires students to analyze what they already know about Newton's Laws and apply them to this lab investigation. As always, I try to have my students have a part in the decision process of the lab activity. By deciding on the independent variable of this activity, they test their ability to use what they have learned to predict the outcome of the activity. A proper use of the Scientific Method
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6th - 8th
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Christmas STEM Activity: Santa's Transportation Device
Get your students in the Christmas spirit by helping Santa and his elves move presents! This is a perfect STEM activity for the Christmas holidays that includes a storyline about transporting presents to Santa's sleigh! Activity Overview: Santa needs your help! The elves built a really heavy present that they are unable to move! Your mission is to design a way to transport the heavy present from Santa’s Workshop to his sleigh. Students will learn about circuits and use a coin cell battery and vi
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 4-PS3-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: Christmas STEM Challenges Bundle: Elf, Santa, and More!
Density: Inquiry Labs, Graphing, & Mathematical Problem Set 1&2, Print & Digital
A fabulous starter pack to get your students on the road toward density mastery!This bundle includes:Solving Density Math Problem Set #12-pages student worksheet - nine questions with space to record work (print)1-page student worksheet - nine questions, no space to record work (print)4-pages of detailed solutions showing all steps of algebraic manipulation (print)Solving Density Problems #1 ab Digital Easel ActivitiesDigital Easel activities to accompany Problem Set #1.Solving Density Math Prob
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6th - 10th
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MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-3
Out Of This World ALGEBRA (10 Math "Space Missions")
FULL VERSION of my exciting algebra activity where students have 10 "missions" that need algrebra to be solved. Each mission is a story problem; students need to find key words/phrases to decide which operation to use to create an equation or expression to solve the problem. Then, they must solve for the variable. Other missions provide students with an equation that they need to solve/evaluate. The major focus is algebra, but each mission is related to science (outer space, specifically). It is
Average speed physics activity fun test review homework 6th 7th 8th math science
This fun and engaging worksheet will have your students thinking deeply about average speed calculations. Perfect as a class activity, quiz, standardized test review, or homework assignment. The fonts used to create this lesson are included at no charge! Download the files and use them for your lessons or TPT products!Activity includes real life word problems in which students perform various calculations to discover average speed of various world record holders. Then students take that informat
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5th - 8th
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Trampoline Park Field Trip Lesson Plan 6th-8th [reading, writing, math &science]
Field trip time! This is a narrative writing lesson plan for a trip to a trampoline park. It includes standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, and narrative writing paper. UPDATED! Now includes more standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, planning sheet, and narrative writing paper.
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6th - 8th
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MS-PS3-5
Math In Nature - Linear Relationships
An exciting teaching resource to get your students out of the classroom and into nature to discover Linear Relationships. This resource comes packed with:outline of the assignmentstep by step instructions to help ensure student successa student exemplarrubric for self assessment and teacher evaluationDon't miss out on this exciting new activity from Creekside Education!
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Math In Nature - Linear Relationships and Calculating Trees Oxygen
Sidewalk Solar System
This is an interdisciplinary, common core based lesson plan that incorporates the use of decimals, fractions, ratios, etc. to create a scale model of our solar system. This interactive lesson is a great way for students to use math skills while remembering the names of the planets and dwarf planets and better understanding scale models.
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5th - 6th
Jan. 11 Math & Inventions Puzzle: 1st Clincial Use of the X-Ray | Algebra Review
January 11 of the Mystery Year was a key date in the development of X-rays. Algebra skills in clues for the puzzle involve solving problems by writing and solving equations, using variables to represent two quantities where one quantity is written in terms of the other, error analysis to find and correct an error in a series of steps, and logical reasoning. The clues for finding the year connect to the invention of the X-ray through a variety of problems dealing with unknowns. Your PDF download
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6th - 8th
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A Student's Guide to the Galaxy
This 5E Integrated STEAM lesson plan is split into the five parts of the 5E Model; engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate. Each part can be taught in it's own class period or combined depending on the amount of time available and age of your students. The lesson plan includes content and language objectives, vocabulary, NGSS and CCM standards, student response sheets and rubrics for evaluation. Students use a variety of tech tools in the lesson series including Tinkercad, Screencastify, P
Lesson 8. Parallel Lines, Transversals. Pythagorus, and Making Rafters
Students will use parallel lines and transversal angles names and their relationships to better understand how to make a roof rafter. Students familiarize themselves with the required vocabulary to create a roof rafter. Students have an opportunity to practice angle pair names and solving for unknown angles-Students determine how long their rafter will be? (Solving for unknown side lengths in a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem)
Proportions 3D model project
This is an engaging hands-on activity for students/groups to practice using proportions to scale up and construct 3D figures from a drawing!This activity differentiates by providing figures of various difficulty levels and sizes. You may assign specific figures, or have students of various ability levels work together cooperatively to reconstruct all of the figures (e.g. lower-level students could be responsible for more basic figures, and higher-level students could be challenged with the mor
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6th - 9th
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Math and Science Assessment Bundle
This bundle includes all of my math assessments created for 6th grade standards and science tests (10) Covering 8th grade and 6th grade. You can adjust them, change them, add to them, make them fit your classroom needs! It is based on the extended standards, but they are very similar to the typical standards for 6th grade.
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6th - 8th, Staff
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Formula Triangle / Algebra Triangle / Math Triangle Equation Sheet
This is a handy student reference sheet that students complete throughout a course as they progress through new physics concepts and formulas. Students can use it as a reference while they are solving problems. The sheets allow students to see the relationships between variables within a single formula as well as between different formulas. The sheet also helps students break down complicated word problems into steps by teaching them to identifying units that correspond to variables within for
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4th - 9th
STEM Forces & Motion (6th, 7th, 8th) Energy Bounce DRIVING STEM
ENERGY BOUNCEStudents are challenged to investigate potential and kinetic energy as they look for patterns in the way a ball bounces. Collect data. Analyze data. Make decisions using data. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS1. What is the difference in kinetic and potential energy?2. What are some examples of energy transversions?Potential energy is energy that is stored in an object. If you stretch a rubber band, you will give it potential energy. As the rubber band is released, potential energy is changed to
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-PS2-4
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Adopt a Habitattitude
Adopt a Habitattitude(TM) is a series of classroom-tested, electronically available activities designed to be used by teachers and informal educators in grades 6-12. These innovative and engaging activities can help students learn about and prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS). In order to protect and sustain our water bodies for future generations, youth—our future decision makers and leaders—need to acquire relevant knowledge about AIS to become effective and responsible decisi
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
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