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Bring meaningful, real-world learning into your classroom with this engaging Blue Zones Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit. Students explore real communities around the world where people live longer, healthier lives—and then apply what they learn to their own lives and environment. What This Unit Includes: ✔ Student workbook (print + digital friendly) ✔ Teacher guide with daily lesson plans ✔ Step-by-step project structure ✔ Research and note-taking framework ✔ Reflection and goal-setting activ

Engage your students with a real-world STEM challenge where they design solutions to protect our oceans. In this hands-on engineering project, students research real ocean problems, develop creative solutions, and build a prototype model. Perfect for middle school science, STEM, or project-based learning classrooms! What Makes This Different: Unlike unstructured projects, this resource walks students through a clear engineering design process, including: Research and problem definition Guided

Looking for engaging STEM activities that are easy to implement and actually work?These low-prep STEM challenges are designed to get students thinking, building, and collaborating using simple, everyday materials. Perfect for middle school classrooms, each challenge follows a structured engineering design process to keep students focused and engaged. ✔ What’s Included: 12 STEM Challenges Teacher Guide with lesson flow Student Recording Sheet Self-Assessment Rubric Printable + Digital O

Guide your students through meaningful STEM projects with clear, structured, no-prep templates that support every step of the engineering design process. These worksheets help students move from identifying a problem to designing, testing, and improving real solutions (without overwhelming planning time for teachers!) What’s Included: Engineering Design Process templates Problem identification & brainstorming pages Planning and design worksheets Testing and improvement reflection sheets S

This editable STEM Project Rubric Bundle gives you everything you need to assess student work during engineering design challenges and project-based learning. 🔧 What’s Included: This resource is a complete STEM assessment toolkit designed for middle school classrooms: ✔ Teacher Rubric (Quick Version – 1 page) ✔ Teacher Rubric (Detailed Version – more specific criteria) ✔ Student Self-Assessment Rubric ✔ Peer Evaluation Rubric ✔ Student Reflection Sheet ✔ Editable in Google Docs + Print

Bring real-world math into your classroom with this engaging Vitruvian Man Investigation! In this hands-on activity, students test Leonardo da Vinci’s famous claim about human body proportions by collecting real data, creating scatterplots, and analyzing relationships using evidence. What Students Will Do 📏 Collect real class data (height & arm span) 🔍 Test a real-world claim 📊 Build a scatterplot from scratch 🧠 Use evidence to prove or disprove What’s Included ✔ Student investigation pa

Looking for a simple, effective way to assess student STEM projects? This FREE STEM Project Rubric is designed to help you easily evaluate student work during engineering design challenges and project-based learning activities. Perfect for middle school classrooms, this rubric provides clear, structured criteria for grading student understanding, creativity, testing, and reflection. 🔧 What’s Included: STEM Project Rubric (Printable PDF) Engineering Design Assessment Criteria 5 Key Catego

We all know that building relationships with our students and helping students build relationships with each other, is key in creating a positive learning environment. This packet is designed to help students get to know each other and begin to build those relationships while also using math! Whoot, whoot! This packet contains two brief icebreaker activities, and one longer activity. In the first icebreaker, students must decide what a graph is measuring based off their given group. They may

In this cooperative activity, students exercise their ability to create graphs given verbal descriptions, and explore the relationship between stories, graphs and data tables. This activity includes: *Student friendly goals *Warm-up *Matching Activity *Extension Activity -- Could be used as homework, exit task, or follow-up activity

The goal of this activity is to give meaning to creating equations and expressions by providing students with a real-world challenge that requires students to create equations to solve a problem. This activity requires students to create a business proposal where they must create equations and simplify expressions in order to solve a problem posted by a small business owner. This activity comes with: *Student friendly "I will..." statements *Answer Key *2 extension activities for advanced studen