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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

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