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PARADE FLOAT PROJECT STEM STEAM Trash to Treasure Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Have fun and encourage critical thinking creativity, and problem-solving with this Trash to Treasure Parade Float STEM Challenge! In this unit, students use a bag of provided CLEAN trash to design and create their parade float. You get to decide what the parade’s theme is, so this unit is incredibly flexible! Directions, Parade Float Judging Sheet, and Supply Request Letter are included. Ways to Use•Any holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, etc.) •With a Balloons Over Broadway u
3rd - 12th
Classroom Community, Engineering
Thanksgiving Day Parade Math Enrichment Project Gifted & Talented Float Activity
Engage your gifted and talented students in real-world math before Thanksgiving with a hands-on learning adventure in disguise! Using the provided materials, students will design and construct a three-dimensional Thanksgiving Day parade float. With a set budget, they’ll work to create the most impressive, well-decorated float possible while making strategic decisions along the way. Once their floats are complete, students will calculate the volume and total surface area or area and perimeter of
3rd - 6th
Geometry, Math
CCSS
3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.5b
, 3.MD.C.7
+14
4th of July Math Activity 3rd 4th 5th Grade Patriotic Parade Float Craft Project
Engage your students in real-world math this Independence Day with a hands-on learning adventure in disguise! Using the provided materials, students will design and construct a three-dimensional 4th of July parade float. With a set budget, they’ll work to create the most impressive, well-decorated float possible while making strategic decisions along the way. Once their floats are complete, students will calculate the volume and total surface area of their creations. They’ll be having so much fu
3rd - 5th
Geometry, Math
CCSS
3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.5b
, 3.MD.C.7
+14
Presidential Parade with Floats!
Students will enjoy participating in a Presidential hands-on learning project. This project stimulates creativity, problem-solving, research and oral presentation into one collective project for grades 4-8. You can simplify or allow for complexity! The floats can be made individually or collaboratively as a small group project.
The lesson includes a simple and a complex version. It also gives keys, instructions, Common Core Standards and a Rubric to score the activity.
Lessons can be used in Soc
4th - 9th
U.S. History
History of the Macy's Parade Nonfiction Informational Reading Passage Activities
This Macy’s Parade Informational Text unit brings the excitement, history, and larger-than-life magic of the famous Thanksgiving parade right into your classroom! This beloved holiday tradition, filled with soaring balloons, marching bands, dazzling floats, and festive performers, has been capturing imaginations for nearly a century. But behind the fun is a fascinating story of immigration, creativity, engineering, and American culture. This informational text unit gives students a front-row se
3rd - 5th
Informational Text, Other (Social Studies), Writing
Thanksgiving Day Parade SELebration
SELebrate Thanksgiving with this SEL inspired Thanksgiving Day Parade float project. Your students are sure to be engaged in this extended assignment that will have them creatively and critically thinking for hours while focusing on a social-emotional themed float. My students LOVED it! Students will: 1. Research the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2. Plan their own Thanksgiving Day float based on a social-emotional theme 3. Design their float with a cardboard box and creative materials/supplie
3rd - 6th
Balloons Over Broadway: Picture Book Engineering Design Challenge ~ STEM
This Engineering Design Challenge is based on the picture book, Balloons Over Broadway, by Melissa Sweet!
Can your group create a Thanksgiving parade balloon float that appears to float over the cardboard base?
Materials: (per group)
Assorted balloons (shapes and sizes)
Copy paper box lid (as an optional base)
Craft sticks
Plastic Balloon Sticks or Bamboo skewers
Dowel rods (we got the skinny ones)
Tape and scissors
Yarn
This packet contains all the information you need to make this a grea
3rd - 6th
Science
Mardi Gras STEM
Mardi Gras Parade STEM- The town wants to have a huge parade and celebration. They need your students' help to design lots of colorful parade floats. Your students need to design a parade float for Mardi Gras that is colorful and can be pulled or pushed with touching it using the available supplies and sticking to a budget. Your kids will love this Mardi Gras activity so much that they won't even realize that they are learning math and engineering skills. This STEM meets NGSS standards. Sugg
2nd - 5th
Engineering
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Thanksgiving Project Based Learning Parade Planner- Balloons Over Broadway
Your students can become parade planners, through this Project Based Learning experience. This book correlates with the Balloons Over Broadway book. Students will plan the route, eight floats and four sections of the parade. This resource will inspire creativity. A digital and interactive Google Slides version is available at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Parade-Planner-Project-Based-Learning-Interactive-Google-Slides-4986304
2nd - 5th
Also included in: Gifted and Talented Bundle for November
Brain Candy- Labor Day Challenge
This is a great activity for kids who like constructing and love the hands-on approach! Originally designed with the gifted child in mind, these challenges provide “brain candy” for minds that think creatively and outside-the-box. In this challenge, students will be creating a "weather-proof" float that reflects both their school and country for a Labor Day Parade! This lesson will have several parts, and kids will need to be in groups of 3-4. Students will brainstorm, and then be given a bag f
3rd - 6th
U.S. History
BUBBLE BAY BONANZA
NEW! LuminEd Summer Splash Adventures – Book 3 Bubble Bay Bonanza | Dive Into Ocean Wonders & Bubble Science! For curious kids ages 5–10 Make a splash this summer with hands-on fun, learning, and laughter! Join Niko, Lila, Ethan, and Zoe in a beach-themed backyard transformed into Bubble Bay — a place where imagination floats, science pops, and every splash sparks curiosity! --- Bubble Bay Bonanza – What’s Inside? play-based learning: page story filled with bubble tunnels, sea creature qu
K - 6th
For All Subjects, Numbers, Reading Strategies
Easter Logic Puzzle
Logic puzzles are great activities to keep your students thinking and engaged. There are numerous reasons to use logic puzzles with your students in the classroom, including but not limited to: Increased logical and critical thinkingEnhanced processing speed and memoryHeightened comprehensionReduced boredomI use logic puzzles all the time for my early finishers or as morning work. I generally start the year off by doing one together as a whole class so they understand how to solve it. I then wil
4th - 8th
Also included in: Seasonal & Holiday Logic Puzzle Bundle
March Mystery Math Challenge Pack | Problem of the Week | Math Enrichment
🍀 March Mystery Math Challenge Pack | St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities | Problem of the Week 🍀 Looking for a fun way to keep your students engaged in math all March long? This St. Patrick’s Day-themed Mystery Math Pack is perfect for grades 3–5! Students become detectives as they solve four multi-step word problems. Each problem unlocks a clue, and by the end of the month, your class will put all the clues together to solve the big mystery! ✅ What’s Included: 4 March-themed Problems
3rd - 5th
Fractions, Geometry, Order of Operations
CCSS
3.MD.C.5
, 3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.5b
+31
Also included in: Spring Mystery Math Challenge Bundle | Problem of the Week | Grades 3–5
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