Little STEM Explorers

🌎 Unit 5 Bundle: Weathering, Erosion & Earth ChangesNGSS-Aligned | Hands-On Science | 2nd Grade STEM Curriculum DescriptionDig into Earth science with Rocky the Raccoon! In this hands-on STEM unit, students become Earth Investigators as they explore how wind, water, and time shape the land through weathering and erosion. Through engaging investigations, design challenges, and real-world connections, students will: Observe how wind and water move soil and change landforms Investigate how rock

🌎 How Can We Protect the Land From Change? | 2nd Grade STEM Unit 6 Week 3Engage your students in a hands-on engineering design challenge as they explore how to protect the land from change! In this third week of Unit 6: Slow and Sudden Earth Changes, students move beyond observing land changes and begin designing, building, testing, and improving solutions to real-world problems. With Tremor the Turtle as their guide, students take on the role of engineers as they identify land problems lik

Welcome to Little STEM Explorers – Unit 6, Week 2!In this engaging, hands-on week, students explore how the land can change very quickly through events like earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic activity. With Tremor the Turtle as their guide, students investigate fast changes through observation, hands-on modeling, comparison activities, and real-world application. Rather than memorizing facts, students are encouraged to think like scientists—using evidence, discussing ideas, and explaining

Unit 5 Week 5: Weathering & Erosion Assessment NGSS-Aligned | 2nd Grade Science | STEM Inquiry ActivitiesBring your Weathering & Erosion unit to a meaningful close with this engaging end-of-unit assessment pack from the Little STEM Explorers curriculum series. In this final week of Unit 5: Shaping the Earth – Weathering & Erosion, students review key vocabulary, analyze real-world erosion examples, explain land changes, and demonstrate their understanding through observation, writing, and p

🔥 Melt, mix, and investigate with Blaze the Bunny!In this winter STEM investigation, students become Heat Scientists as they explore how heating and cooling change materials. Using broken crayons and simple tools, students observe wax melting, swirling, cooling, and hardening again — discovering which material changes can be reversed and which cannot. Through hands-on investigation, guided prompts, and real-world winter connections, your students will: Watch how wax melts when heat is added

Included in this product: - Weekly Front to Back Pages including 5 setences that contain 10 errors. Errors included: spelling, punctuation, capitalization, spacing, omitted words, and tense. - Individual Student Record Sheets that can be used for collecting data or parent teacher conferences. - Sight Word Assessments. - Master List Containing All Sight Words This product has a years worth of sight word lists, assessments, record pages and editing sentence worksheets for first graders. You can

Explore how heating and cooling can change materials with this engaging, NGSS-aligned Week 3 science unit from the Little STEM Explorers series!In this hands-on and inquiry-based science pack, second grade students investigate real-world temperature problems, test tools that use heat or cold, and collaborate to design solutions. It’s the perfect way to build STEM thinking while aligning with 2-PS1-4! What’s Included in Unit 2: Week 3 – “Heat & Cold in Our World”: Teacher Instructions for each a

Use this product to compare and contrast two different texts. This worksheet helps fulfill the Common Core standard: CC.1.3.1.H: Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

This is more than a worksheet — it’s a weeklong STEM journey built for second grade scientists!Aligned with NGSS 2-PS1-2, this Week 4 unit invites students to investigate, compare, and choose materials for a specific purpose. Through hands-on activities, vocabulary support, and an open-ended design challenge, learners will explore how strength, flexibility, texture, and water resistance affect material choice. Designed for busy teachers, every component is printable, purposeful, and classroom-

Want to jazz up your show and tell? This can also be a fun activity before the Easter break. Send this slip home, along with a plastic egg. Assign your students to fill a plastic egg with a mystery object. They can then come up with 3 clues to describe their object. While students read their clues, everyone can guess by drawing on the egg worksheet. Have fun!

Enjoy this wonderful project to do in school or to send with your students over break! It is designed like a RAFT assignment. Students choose a role, an audience of who they are writing to, a format, and a topic. You can give as little or as much freedom as you want with this assignment! Included in this product is the project assignment, teacher examples, and paper templates that can or cannot be used by students. Students may choose between writing a diary, recipe, letter, grocery list, so

Use this product to collect words to describe each student in your classroom. Then take the words your students come up with to create a personalized gift for each student. You can also have students rotate around the room and write 1 word to describe each student. Your students can then create their own Wordle as a technology project! When to gift it? -Start of the school year (ice breaker) -As a birthday -Winter break -End of the year Enjoy!

You can use these for whole group instruction, small group instruction, or students may work on this activity independently. Students will get to practice finding words in the dictionary, by listing the guide words from the page that each word is found. This product includes: -Spelling Word Hunts -Make Your Own Word Hunts -Seasonal Word Hunts -Definition Page I use this product to teach my First Graders how to use a dictionary. Then students complete several of these throughout the year as a

This is an excellent project that your students can do over the Spring and Winter breaks. They can also be done in school. It's a great way to show the growth your students have made throughout the year, and they absolutely love having the freedom to choose their own assignment! This is called a RAFT project. R (role) A (audience) F (format) T (topic). RAFT is a writing strategy that helps students understand their role as a writer. It encourages them to uncover their own voice by presenting t

Please enjoy this product that you can use with your students to create plays or stories in groups. I used this product for my students to write and perform their own plays! They had a blast and were so creative!

Use these 21 squiggle doodles throughout the year for a fun writing center that your students will love! Use custom paper for your grade level. Copy on the back or attach writing paper separately.

When children are learning how to read sometimes they have difficulty blending sounds together. Once you teach children how to follow the arrows, students can independently practice reading the words. To check for assessment of blending, students read each word and then draw a picture in the middle of the circle to represent the word they have read. This product was extremely helpful with one of my students who was struggling with blending sounds together. Enjoy!

This is not just a single worksheet or center — it’s a complete week-long learning experience built around NGSS 2-PS1-1. Inside you’ll find: 5+ days of lessons and student activities A full teacher pacing guide and setup support Hands-on science centers, observation prompts, and extension ideas Vocabulary cards, anchor charts, and black & white options for every activity A printable “Explorer’s Check-Out” exit ticket to assess student understanding All materials infused with your classroom STE

This is just a fun scavenger hunt you can use with any age group. Items can be found in books, in real life and collected, on a webquest, or photographed. Enjoy!

This is a great resource to use with your students, when working with specific word families. I guide my students in this writing activity and after the first couple of pages, they know my expectations and are able to complete this independently. Word Families Included: -an, -ap, -at, -ed, -en, -et, -ig, -ip, -it, -og, -op, -ot, -ug, -um, and -un. Enjoy!