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Bring the excitement of the Winter Olympics into your classroom with this engaging, station-based science lesson! Students explore the real science behind Olympic sports through videos, readings, hands-on investigation, and critical thinking questions. This resource is perfect for middle school science, enrichment days, sub plans, STEM rotations, or pre/post-break learning. Students rotate through four interactive stations (video & reading/writing), making clear connections between biology

Engineering Design • Environmental Science • Grades 5–8Turn failure into powerful learning with this hands-on EcoSTEAM engineering challenge! Students take on the role of environmental engineers as they design, test, fail, redesign, and improve a water filter to clean polluted water—just like real engineers do. This resource goes beyond a simple STEM activity by emphasizing iteration, data collection, trade-offs, and real-world water access issues. 📦 What’s Included ✔️ Student Workshe

Help young learners discover the parts of a plant through play, discussion, and building! This engaging lesson is designed specifically for PreK–Kindergarten students and includes a custom read-aloud book created just for this assignment, making science accessible, concrete, and fun. Students learn about roots, stems, leaves, and flowers while listening to a story narrated by a friendly character, participating in turn-and-talk discussions, and creating their own model plant using simple craf

Science Skills • Observation • Diagrams • Grades 1–3Teach students how to draw like scientists, not cartoonists! This engaging lesson helps young learners understand that scientific drawings are tools for learning—focused on accuracy, details, real colors, correct proportions, and labels, not decoration. Using clear visuals, guided discussion, and hands-on practice, students learn how to observe carefully and record what they actually see, just like real scientists. 📦 What’s Included ✔️

Students use this template to reflect on how they have used Science & Engineering Practices this marking period (MP). This helps them analyze their MP grade, give grows/glows, link work they are proud of, and acknowledge missing work. Students then reflect on 4 questions that help them reflect on areas of improvement in groupwork and supports they would like from family and teachers. Most slides can be edited. Question slide would need added textboxes to change the questions. Students will ne

Students use this template to reflect on a past marking period (MP). Great for advisory or homeroom teachers!This helps students analyze their MP grade in each class, give grows/glows, link work they are proud of, and acknowledge missing work. Students then reflect on 4 questions that help them reflect on areas of improvement in groupwork and supports they would like from family and teachers. Most slides can be edited. Clip art slide to add images to each content area (ex: favorite, Help!, thu

Criticality (according to the Hill Model) is the capacity to read, write, and think in ways of understanding power, privilege, social justice, and oppression, particularly for populations who have been historically marginalized in the world. In this assignment, students will research a Astrophysicist and Researcher from Virginia, Dr. Jedidah Isler, and reflect on the obstacles or oppression she faced on her journey to becoming a STEM professional. Slides should be assigned one per student or gr

Criticality (according to the Hill Model) is the capacity to read, write, and think in ways of understanding power, privilege, social justice, and oppression, particularly for populations who have been historically marginalized in the world. In this assignment, students will research a Molecular Biologist from Harlem, Dr. Eric Jarvis, and reflect on the obstacles or oppression he faced on his journey to becoming a STEM professional. Slides should be assigned one per student or group. Includes