STEM-tastic Learning

Lower Elementary students will use what they have learned about inventions from Ancient China to do a STEM project. They will use the STEM Challenge in a Box concept and the Engineering Design Process to recreate one of the inventions from Ancient China. Students will also create a trading card poster about their invention and take a mini-quiz at the end of the project. Helpful websites are also included in the lesson.

In this project, students will work in groups to create a colony for another planet or moon in our solar system. Students will use the steps of the Engineering Design Process to design, create, and build their colonies. Students are also expected to create a presentation in order to "sell" their classmates on buying one of the spots in their space colony. The last page has the teacher instructions for this project.

Students will use the internet to visit one of the counties in Arizona. They will create maps, a souvenir from that county, and figure out how much it would cost to visit that county for a week. They will write journal entries about their trip and create a postcard for someone about their visit.

This book report about a fictional book meets many Common Core ELA reading standards. I have set it up so that most students can do what is required would fall in the meets category and students who like to go above and beyond can get extra credit by following the exceeds category. There is a sample instruction page attached because my school uses the Accelerated Reading program and taking an AR test is a part of their requirements.