The Elementary Educator

I created these pages for a STEM activity we did with my class. We'd been learning about gravity and I decided to let groups make parachutes. (This could also be done independently.) After reading about gravity and looking at pictures of different parachutes, students used the parachute planning page to plan the size and style of their parachute. Then, I passed out a plastic grocery bag, a ruler, 4 pieces of tape, scissors, and a washer with four pieces of yarn attached to it to students and

This two page file has students create a tally chart, bar graph, line plot, and pictograph of the number of each color of conversation hearts they receive. At the end of the file, students are also required to write questions and the answers for each of the graphs/line plot they created.