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This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story Max and Marla. This is a great story for STEM!!! It is about a little girl and her dog! They work together to be Olympians in sledding! They work and work some more to get better. Finally, they take on the big hill.....and well......they realize that they had fun and tried their best! I love this story!!! I love this book for so many reasons. I immediately thought about a STEM challenge with it! So.....students are asked to build

This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring Georgia 5th grade Social Studies Standards! This lesson is a mini-lesson that teaches students about World War II, Japanese Internment Camps, and Rationing. After reading the story, Nim and the War Effort, students are asked to engineer a working wagon! Just like Nim used the wagon to collect newspapers for the war effort, students will also collect newspapers for the STEM War Effort. They will use their working wagons to collect newspapers aro

Simple Machines fit perfectly with this STEM Christmas Challenge! This is a ready to use STEM challenge featuring the story How to Catch An Elf. We use the book as the hook and then the students learn about simple machines! Then students are asked to build some sort of trap to catch that sneaky old elf! This is just a great Christmas STEM Challenge that will keep you students engaged! I do this lesson with 1st graders. I have my students for 45 minutes at a time. In the past, my students hav

Don't be left home alone without your simple machines this Christmas season! This is a ready to use STEM challenge perfect for Christmas! This is a super cute Christmas book and it is a great recap of the movie!!! Even as an adult...I just love this movie!!! The book is pretty great too!!! This STEM challenge uses simple machines and traps!!! Students are asked to engineer and design simple machine traps to stop Harry and Marv from getting inside the McCallister house this Christmas!!! So

Have fun learning about rotation and revolution with this super engaging STEM Challenge. This is a ready to use STEM challenge connected to Georgia Science Standards of Excellence (S4E2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to model the effects of the position and motion of the Earth and the moon in relation to the sun as observed from the Earth). My PowerPoints are designed as a guide for the teacher and student. They are only a few pages long. I usually just do mini-lessons with my st