Students will design and create a windmill to see which team has the most efficient windmill. This is a fun an simple activity.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Teacher Guide
2. Prototype Worksheets
3. Results/Review Worksheet
In this stem challenge students will build a boat to move items from one side of the room to another. This is a really simple Stem challenge that is fun and exciting.
What is in the packet:
1. STEM Challenge teacher lesson page
2. Prototype worksheet
3. Results/Reflection worksheet
This is a fun activity that will teach students how to determine if a website is a reliable resource or not. The students will view several websites to determine if the website is real or fake. The activity comes with a two pages. The first page talks about how to identify unreliable and fake Internet sites with a list of websites for the students to check out. The next page is a worksheet that helps students analyze and reflect on how they determined whether or not a website is real or fake.
Students will compete in this STEM challenge to determine who has the best catapult bast on range and accuracy. This is a fun one day activity that is really easy and fun to teach.
The packet includes:
1. Teacher Guide
2. Prototype Worksheets
3. Results/Reflection Worksheet
This is a simple stem challenge that has students design and build a chain out of paper. The chain that can hold the most weight wins the stem challenge. This is a very easy prep and the students will have a lot of fun.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Teachers guide for the STEM challenge.
2. Two prototype pages
3. A results and reflection pag
The Challenge:
Your team has been employed the National Space Agency to design and build a rocket prototype.
Your task is to design, build and test a rocket that not only goes the furthest distance, but is also the most accurate at 25 yards. The furthest flying rocket will win one of the challenges and the most accurate rocket will win the other. Can you win both challenges?
Here is what is in the activity:
1. A teachers guide to help students through the design and testing process of their rocket challenge.
2. Two prototype worksheets to help students with the design of their rocket.
Surfing the Internet safely, cyber bullying, and practicing good digital citizenship is covered in the 12 activities below.
Here is what is in the bundle:
1. Be Safe Online (2 Page Worksheet) Discusses not giving out to much personal information online.
2. Cyber Bullying (2 Page Worksheet) looks at how to identify cyber bullying and how to deal with it.
3. Digital Compass: (1 Page Worksheet/rubric with link to online activity) This is website that looks at different issues with online safety. Very fun for the students.
4. Internet Safety Game: Beat the Hacker! A fun Jeopardy type game with a twist. This game covers Internet safety, Online Friends, Safe or Scam, and Saying Things Online. Play as a class in teams, or individually.
5. Writing activity: (5 Pages) Are Friends on the Internet real friends? Students will write and essay answering the essential question Are Friends on the Internet real friends? The is a one page reading about Internet Friends, a guide on how to write the essay, and writing tips fro struggling students.
6. Famous Magician on Social Media: (2 Page Worksheet) A short story about a magician and his social media account where he is putting himself at risk online. The worksheet includes follow questions.
7. Be safe Online (2 Page Worksheet) Short read with questions. Discusses things that put people at risk online.
8. Online Safety Bumper Sticker: (1 Page Worksheet) This activity comes with rubric and template.
9. Online Safety pledge: (1 Page Worksheet)
10. Online Safety: Safe or Not (1 Page Worksheet and Answer Key) Discusses things that are safe and not safe to say online.
11. Cyber Safety Story Board: Comes with online link and Rubric to complete activity. Fun online activity.
12. How to determine if a website is fake: (2 Page Worksheet with links) This is a fun activity where students will go to a list of website s and try and determine if they are real or fake.
Please note that this is a bundle and that some of the activities are sold separately. Buy the bundle for the best deal!
A fen stem challenge where students build a simple helicopter. The team that gets their helicopter to hover the longest wins!
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Teacher Guide
2. Prototype Worksheets
3. Results/Reflection Worksheet
This packet contains over 30 different technology lessons, teaching ideas, and more. I sell a few of these lessons separately, but it is bundled here for a much better deal. I have been teaching Technology for a long time and these are some of my best lessons.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Online safety lessons: Several worksheets on safety and an Online Safety Pledge.
2. Frames Animation News Cast Current Event with Rubric
3. Prezi Me Project with Rubric
4. Bill of Rights Prezi Project with Rubric
5. Frames Animation: Project on Famous Inventor with Rubric
6. A four day course to teach students how to do simple coding.
7. Scratch Greeting Card Project: Create an animated Greeting Card. Teach students how to code out a simple animated card with block coding. Includes Rubric. Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience!
8. Scratch Pong Game: Teach students how to code out a simple game with block coding. Includes Rubric. Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience!
9. A list of simple coding projects with tutorials. Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience!
10. Create a catch game with Code: Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience! There are tutorials!
11. Go animate: Create an Animated Newscast.
12. Publisher: Create a country brochure
13. PowerPoint Project: More advanced PowerPoint Project that includes how to build out a quiz.
14. Blogging
15. Current events worksheet
16. History Space Social Media Activity
17. PowerPoint Project American revolution
18. Publisher: Planets Project creating a brochure with rubric
19. How to Write a Resume: Complete guided out lesson with sample.
20. QR coded project with video to learn how to do it.
Note that a few of these lessons need additional programs you may have to purchase. Some have trials that can be used instead of buying them. If you have Microsoft Office, or adapt the Office lessons to Google Docs, than you should be able to do most of the projects without purchasing more programs.
This is an Internet Safety Trivia game with a fun twist. It has a few bonus blocks where a hacker pops up. The students get double the points if they can answer the hackers question. This is a fun way to learn about online safety.
This is a design process journal in PowerPoint that the students can use to guide them through the design process for projects. It easily allows students to input the different steps of the design process from Inquiring and Analyzing, Developing Ideas, Creating the Solution and Evaluating. The different sections of the design process are laid out with several slides each for the students to fill out. The design process journal is also color coded to help you easily teach the concepts and the design process. This was originally adapted for an IB design class, but can be used for any type of in depth design process. This product is also in PowerPoint and can be easily edited to meet the needs of your design project.
Here is a fun activity for St. Patrick's Day:
The Challenge
A Leprechaun has gotten loose and is stealing all the shiny things he can get his hands on. His favorite thing though is gold! He has been seen in the neighborhood stealing jewelry and gold rings and even snuck into the school last night looking for the principals gold watch!
Here’s the challenge: Design and build a Leprechaun trap that can catch a 3-inch Leprechaun. Remember the bait to lure the Leprechauns into your trap. Leprechauns are smart, but will do almost anything for gold and shiny things!
Your task is to design, build and test your trap to catch the Leprechaun!
Here is what is in the packet:
1. An instruction sheet of how to build a Leprechaun trap.
2. 2 prototype worksheets
3. A results and reflection worksheet.
4. Leprechaun Disguise worksheet
This is a fun stem challenge that I call "Escape the Island" Students will design and build a raft from mostly materials they find outside. If they can get their raft to move from one end of a Rubbermaid bin to the other by blowing on the sail and it floats for 15 minutes they win. This activity is a lot of fun and does not require the teacher to purchase a lot of materials