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Are you ready for a bear hunt? What about a bear hunt with your own binoculars? And want to add more STEM to your classroom? Then this the perfect STEM challenge for you! This is a ready to use lesson featuring the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. This lesson is built to be used while my Pre-K students were learning about bears and winter! Students will engineer their own binoculars to use on your bear hunt as they search for "paw print clues"! We use the book as the hook and problem

STEM in the garden with this is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story The Vegetables We Eat. We use the book as the hook and then the students learn about the the various types of vegetables and the parts we eat of each kind. This would be a great STEM activity for starting a school garden, planting vegetables, Ag in the Classroom, or even for Spring! Then students are asked to engineer a tomato cage to hold the weight of the plant as it grows! This lesson gives you information a

This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story One Plastic Bag. We use the book as the hook and then the students learn about the life of plastic bags and recycling. This would be a great STEM activity for Earth Day or for a unit on recycling! Then students are asked to engineer a jump rope from just plastic bags and tape! This lesson gives you information about the book and links to the science of the impact of plastic bags, and then the life of a plastic bag. Then it gives you t

Community helper STEM is so much fun and this lesson focuses on the job of the baker as a community helper! This is a ready to use lesson featuring the story Mr. Cookie Baker. This lesson is built to be used around Community Helper Week. This lesson focuses on the job of the baker! We use the book as the hook and problem for our STEM challenge. Students are asked to engineer a spoon to help the baker stir up the cookie mix!! This challenge is based on Pre-K or kindergarten students. This less

Learn about elections and the voting process with this STEM challenge. It is perfect to teach those government standards on elections and ballots! This is a ready to use STEM Challenge featuring the story Duck For President. It does correlate with GA 2nd grade Social Studies Standard - SS2CG2. This lesson can help enrich your social studies lesson on elections and government. It can also be a stand alone STEM Challenge to help students understand elections and government. It features the

Community Helper STEM challenge with fire safety! This is a ready to use lesson featuring the story Tinyville Town: I'm a Firefighter. This lesson is built to be used around Community Helper Week. This lesson focuses on the job of the firefighter! We use the book as the hook and problem for our STEM challenge. Students are asked to engineer a ladder that is at least 10 rungs high and tall enough to reach the flames at the top of the burning house!! This challenge is based for Pre-K or kinde

Learn all about community helpers with this fun STEM Challenge! Students will learn about the job of the construction worker! This is a ready to use STEM lesson featuring the story Tinyville Town: Gets To Work. This lesson is built to be used around community helper week. This lesson focuses on the job of the construction worker! We use the book as the hook and problem for our STEM challenge. Students are asked to engineer a bridge to help get the people of STEMville get over the pond. The b

I am so excited about these Sunshine STEM Outside stations! Long before I became a STEM teacher, I was a classroom teacher! Having taught in the classroom I was able to see what kids really do while on the playground. Our goal is for all students to be involved in gross motor play, however, we know that is not always true. There is always a student that plays alone, rather talk with the teacher, or just walks around the playground! Or even the kids that like to smuggle their own toys from h

The National Park System and Teddy Roosevelt are the perfect match with this STEM lesson! This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story The Camping Trip that Changed America - Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir. We use the book as the hook and then the students learn about the National Park System. This a social studies-based STEM Challenge. This addresses the Georgia Social Studies Standard of Excellence for 1st Grade ( SS1H1)- Read about and describe the life of historical figures

Need a fun airplane STEM Challenge? This is a ready to use STEM challenge where students learn a little about airplanes and a lot about engineering and STEM. With this STEM challenge, students are asked to build an airplane that is able to rescue five passengers. Their airplane must also include two wings and a working propeller. This is a great engineering challenge for early STEM learners! I have my students for 45 minutes at a time. This lesson gives you links to the book and it also giv

This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story The Room on the Broom. We use the book as the hook and problem for our STEM challenge. Students are asked to build a broom that is able to support the weight of the witch and all her friends. It must also be long enough!! Yep...lots of math with this STEM challenge. Students will learn about weight and measurement with this super cute Halloween children's book with this Room on the Broom STEM challenge. This lesson gives you informati

Back to School STEM - This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. This can be used for a one class period type of STEM lesson or it could be completed in two class periods. I use them in my STEM lab with my first grade students. However, this activity could be used with any grade level as a back to school STEM activity. I use the book as the hook and then turn the problem into our STEM challenge. I have my students for 45 minutes at a t

This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup. This can be used for a one class period type of STEM lesson. I use them in my STEM lab with my first grade students. We use the book as the hook and then turn the bears problem into our STEM challenge. This would be a good lesson to introduce students to STEM. This lesson show students how people all around the world have problems and then we have to solve them! I have my students for 45 minutes

This is a STEM planning guide to help teachers add more STEM into their regular classroom by using any type of children's book.