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This is a collection of 50 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) challenges for kids. This is recommended for ALL GRADES! These projects support the engineering-design process and provide learning in technical fields in a fun, hands-on, and sometimes competitive way. Keep kids engaged and learning creatively!
Each challenge has a snappy mission title, a brief description of the task required, the rules for the mission, and optional grading rubrics. These are very adjustable for your classroom, home, camp, science lab, or homeschooling needs. With minor tweaks, these projects could easily be used from grades K to 12!
Each project is a critical thinking challenge and experiment. Students will have to figure out how to defeat each task. Children will learn by planning, designing, testing, and measuring. Then, they will have to reflect upon their work. Often, students will have to go back and redesign their projects to make them work better. It is highly recommended that students keep journals, blogs, or video reports of their projects!
Challenge projects are tagged with categories so you can search for other similar labs. Types of labs included are: paper airplanes, bridge building, roller coasters, weight lifting projects, tower construction, cars, strength tests, crash tests, egg tests, and many, many more!
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Edition (September 9, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 60 pages
ISBN-10 : 1502328178
ISBN-13 : 978-1502328175
Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.14 x 11 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book helpful for teachers with great ideas for classroom projects. It provides inquiry-based guidance that helps students develop creativity and is suitable for young kids. The activities are fun and simple, making it a good resource.
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Cahit Karakas –
That is a great book which allows you to organize your classroom needs …
That is a great book which allows you to organize your classroom needs in a good manner. As you go through the book you are flexible to adjust your students according to their needs. One of the good things about the book is mostly inquiry based guidance which helps students discover their creativity.
Tia –
I think this is a good investment. Gave my boys ideas for the STEM …
Still waiting to put this book in use. Read over the experiments and labs. I think this is a good investment. Gave my boys ideas for the STEM lab at school
Operation P.E.A.C.E –
Five Stars
Easy STEM exercises that are great for use in an after school setting.
Rebecca M –
good projects for young kids
Some good ideas for science camp for young kids. Typos in a teaching manual? Please
DebbieT –
Five Stars
Great resource for teachers! These activities are fun and are very simple!
Barbara Musselwhite –
exactly as stated
good book
Mike Millard –
nice
Great product
D Kirkland –
Five Stars
Great ideas for my classroom projects.
schtoltzie –
Very inspirational for conducting STEM activities in my class.
Hillcrest Farmboy –
This was a really good buy. There where lots of different activities to books I already owned.At the end of term I used them for KS3 and KS4 classes and the was easily able to extend the activities for the more able. Students liked the format of the worksheets as they knew what to do, what the rules where and how it was to be marked.
G. Bowering –
Good