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Sleigh Ride Fun! A Language Arts and STEM Lesson

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Songs and stories about sleigh rides are everywhere...but lots of our young learners have no idea about what a sleigh really is! This lesson provides a short summary of a sleigh, a brief fictional story about a sleigh ride, and a short non-fiction article about sleighs. Each reading passage has a quick quiz to go with it! After reading the selections, students complete a Venn diagram comparison activity. Included is a STEM activity where students can create, evaluate, and modify a sleigh. T

2nd - 4th

Engineering, Reading, Writing

CCSS

RL.3.1

, RI.3.1

, W.3.8

Winter holiday parachuting STEM project MS ETS1-2 MS ETS1-4 5-PS2-1

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Engagers in Science

This highly engaging engineering and design project ( GOOGLE and PDF versions) allows students to gain a greater understanding of how a parachute works to slow down an object. This project has many options offered to teachers depending on the number of periods they wish to assign. It can be done in one period, or extended to include background information on parachutes and why they work (active reading assignment), paperclip and falling rate investigation, student documentation of their designs

5th - 9th

Engineering

NGSS

MS-ETS1-2

, MS-ETS1-4

, 5-PS2-1

Also included in: Science Holiday Activities: STEM and Inquiry lessons NGSS aligned