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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

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

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