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Engineering Design: Playground Swing (Aligns with NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1, 2, & 3)This NGSS aligned STEM project engages your students with a hands-on experience in designing and building a playground swing. While doing this project, they will learn and understand the engineering design process. This lesson addresses NGSS Performance Expectation NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1, 2, &3: Define a simple design problem, generate and compare multiple solutions, and plan and carry out fair tests. The lesson draws studen

This Nuclear Energy package shows how nuclear power is produced and the energy transformations that must happen in order to make electricity. The package includes an editable, interactive PowerPoint presentation which shows how nuclear energy is released from uranium atoms, and the types of transformations the energy undergoes in order to make Nuclear Power into electricity. The presentation makes liberal use of diagrams and pictures to illustrate the points simply and clearly. This presentat

This informative and entertaining package includes a wealth of material and exercises on wind energy, its environmental benefits, and challenges. Materials are aligned with Common Core and address Next Generation Science Standards as well. Included with the PowerPoint presentation on windmill technology (at the elementary level), are: Reading comprehension exercises Interactive notebook sheets Interactive vocabulary exercisesComprehensive teacher notes and answer keysFlash cardsA simple, fun wi

This STEM Engineering Challenge incorporates asking questions, planning a project, and identifying solutions. Students will build and test their selected solution and write up their results and conclusions. The package includes teacher instructions, planning sheets, design pages, scoring sheets, and student lab data sheets. This STEM Challenge uses a simple story line - The student and a friend get lost snowboarding down a mountain. They end up in Bigfoot country and need to use whatever ma

This STEM product addresses Next Generation Science - Common Core Standards with an editable PowerPoint presentation on wind energy, its environmental benefits, and the challenges wind energy faces to become a supplier of electricity. This product is a 16 slide editable power point presentation. The PowerPoint shows how windmills use wind energy to generate electricity. It also covers the benefits of generating electricity with wind, and the issues associated with wind energy and the environme

This package on scientific notation includes a set of student notes suitable for inclusion in an interactive notebook or binder. You can use this package to either introduce scientific notation for the first time, or as a review of scientific notation if needed. The handout shows how to convert standard notation numbers to scientific notation and how to go from scientific notation back to standard notation. Several practice problems on scientific notation are provided which also include conv