Creative Foundations

Get ready for an engaging STEAM unit with “The Great Pumpkin Drop.” Not only will your students practice their engineering design and math skills, they will also create an opinion letter based on their Great Pumpkin Drop results. An amazing resource for teachers who want to encompass math and ELA skills with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity. Students will learn about the structure of a pumpkin and then use that information to work in teams to build the ultimate Great Pumpkin Drop container

This Literacy and STEAM: Create a Prosthetic Prototype for an Animal resource is a perfect companion to Be a Hero and MyView Literacy 3.3 week 6.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about how animals were helped with prosthetics and orthotics and then will make their own prototype of a prosthetic for an animal using their knowledge of force and motion. Each STEAM resou

This Literacy and STEAM: Create a Nature Pattern Masterpiece resource is a perfect companion to Patterns in Nature and MyView Literacy 3.2 Lesson 1.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about artists who feature nature in their works and then design and create a nature-inspired masterpiece. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Prevent Soil Erosion? resource is a perfect companion to Mama Miti: Wangari Moathai and the Trees of Kenya and MyView Literacy 3.4.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about deforestation and soil erosion and will create a model to prevent soil erosion. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1: Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips Int

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Clean the Water? resource is a perfect companion to Wny the Sky is Away and MyView Literacy 3.1 Lesson 2.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing lesson. In this resource, students will learn about the effects of water pollution and design, build, and test a water filtration device. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips Inte

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make the Ultimate Candy? resource is a perfect companion to Milton Hershey and MyView Literacy 3.4 story 3.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn how sciences are used in creating sweet treats and then design their own ultimate candy. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips Interactive Game Original

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Survive an Invasive Species Invasion? resource is a perfect companion to Welcome Back, Wolves! and Wolves Don't Belong in Yellowstone and MyView Literacy 3.2 Lesson 4. An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about the effects of various invasive species on the ecosystem and then play a simulation game in which they are either native specie

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Create a Garden Home? resource is a perfect companion to The House that Jane Built and MyView Literacy 3.4 week 1.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing lesson. Students will learn about the benefits of community gardens to community members and then design and build a garden home. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1: Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips In

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Create a Solar Powered House? resource is a perfect companion to Green City and MyView Literacy 3.4 story 4.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about solar energy and then design, build and test a solar-powered house. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips Interactive Game Original Article: Crea

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make the Ultimate Playground Device? resource is a perfect companion to A Safe Place to Play and MyView Literacy 3.1 Lesson 6.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literacy with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about accessible and inclusive playgrounds and then design, build and test either an accessible swing or accessible slide. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocab

This Literacy and STEAM: Can you Make the Ultimate Float? resource is a perfect companion to Below Deck: A Titanic Story and MyView Literacy 3.3 Lesson 1.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about how gravity, buoyancy, and density work together to make objects float. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1: Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips Interactive Game Orig

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make a Protective Shelter? resource is a perfect companion to Living in Deserts and MyView Literacy 3.1 Lesson 4. An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing lesson. Students will learn about animal shelters around the world and then design, build and test a shelter for a UV bead animal. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips In

Are you looking for a spooktacular compare and contrast writing unit? This three-week fangtastic unit will teach your students how to write compare and contrast essays using nonfiction essays featuring popular Halloween characters. Each week students will:Read two Halloween character essaysComplete a Compare and Contrast Graphic OrganizerComplete a Writing Organizer with a focus on using reasons and examples as well as transitionsEdit workPublish their original compare and contrast essays Wee

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make the Ultimate Boat? resource is a perfect companion to Nora's Ark and MyView Literacy 3.5 story 4.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about how boat and ship designs have changed throughout history and then design, build and test their ultimate boats. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips I

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Create a Shelter on Mars? resource is a perfect companion to Deep Down and Other Extreme Places to Live and MyView Literacy 3.5 story 1.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about the challenges facing those who will one day live on Mars and then design and build a shelter for someone to live on Mars. Each STEAM resource includes three

This Literacy and STEAM: Invent a Jungle Transportation Device is a perfect companion to Grandma and the Great Gourd and MyView Literacy 3.1 Lesson 1.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing lesson. In this resource, students will learn about the Sundarbans and then design, build and sell a jungle transportation device for grandma's next trip. Each STEAM resource includes three parts:Part 1:Vocabul

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make the Ultimate Pollinator Device? resource is a perfect campion to Nature's Patchwork Quilt and MyView Literacy 3.2 Lesson 5. An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about the plant and animal interactions it takes to make chocolate as well as how cacao farmers are looking at new ways to help pollinate cacao flowers. Students will desig

This Literacy and STEAM: What Will Your Baby Monster Look Like? resource is a perfect companion to Cocoliso and MyView Literacy 3.1 Lesson 3.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing lesson. As students learn about Punnett Squares, they will create a monster based upon dominant and recessive inherited traits. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1:Vocabulary Virtual Field Trips Interactive

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make the Ultimate Space Hotel? resource is a perfect companion to Take a Trip and MyView Literacy 3.5 story 6.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about space vacations including suborbital flights and orbitals hotels and then design and build their own ultimate space hotel. Each STEAM resource includes three parts: Part 1: Vocabulary V

This Literacy and STEAM: Can You Make a Jumping Jack Doll? resource is a perfect companion to Little House on the Prairie: By the Shores of Silver Lake and MyView Literacy 3.3 Lesson 3.An amazing resource for elementary teachers and parents who want to combine literature with an engaging hands-on STEAM activity and writing unit. Students will learn about various types of games and toys played by pioneer children and then will design, build, and test a Jumping Jack doll. Each STEAM resource inclu