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.

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.

In this project, your students will work in groups to create 3D models of artifacts they found in a cave once inhabited by some of the earliest humans. They will create a presentation about their artifacts they found and what the petroglyphs found by the artifacts mean.