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STEM Labs for Earth & Space Science
$9.99
The Mark Twain Earth and Space Science book challenges students to work together while solving real-world problems.
STEM Labs for Earth and Space Science for sixth–eighth grades provides 26 integrated labs that cover the topics of:
- geology
- oceanography
- meteorology
- astronomy
The integrated labs encourage students to apply scientific inquiry, content knowledge, and technological design.
STEM success requires creativity, communication, and collaboration. Mark Twain's Earth and Space Science workbook for middle school explains STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Each lab incorporates the following components:
- creativity
- teamwork
- communication
- critical thinking
From supplemental books to classroom décor, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing the very best products for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects, including language arts, fine arts, government, history, social studies, math, science, and character.
STEAM Design Challenges, Grade 4
$19.99
Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!
Perfect for Makerspace!
This fourth grade teacher resource book includes:
- A year's worth of teacher lesson plans
- STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors
- Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson)
- Classroom-tested lessons
The STEAM Design Challenges in this book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grade 4 to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed.
These engaging STEAM lessons:
- Integrate the Next Generation Science Standards and national standards from other disciplines
- Enhance learning across various disciplines
- Facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios
- Promote critical thinking, analytical thinking, and reflective thinking
- Incorporate the Five Es Instructional Model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate)
- Are classroom tested
Engineering Design Process
The lessons in this book are intended to support the engineering design process in which teachers become a facilitator by encouraging and guiding students to work as a team to find a creative solution to a real-world problem without providing step-by-step instructions. Students are inspired to act as scientists and engineers through the use of sketches, diagrams, mathematical relationships, and literacy connections. By creating their very own models and products based on background information from their studies, students are immediately engaged through a meaningful, rewarding lesson.
More about the lessons
Each lesson begins by presenting students with a design challenge scenario in order to immediately excite students with a real-world situation that they are on a mission to solve. Students are then given a dilemma, mission, and blueprint design sheet and are asked to collaborate with team members to create several prototypes. Students present their prototypes to their teacher, construct their design, test their design, engage in a class discussion about their design, and then modify their design. Finally, teams create a justification piece in order to sell their new prototype (ex. persuasive letter, video, advertisement etc.).
About the Authors
The Steam Dreamers, a group of four classroom teachers, desired to create more interactive learning environments and science classrooms through student-centered problem-solving lessons. They created this collection of cross-curricular design challenge lessons to provide teachers and students with real-world scenarios that are driven by core learning standards and enriched through the inclusion of literacy and the arts.
E-Blox® Circuit Blox™ Student Set, 120 projects
$82.49
Grades 3-5 Building on STEM Concepts
Curriculum addresses NGSS requirements
Includes one Circuit Blox 120 product
Use in classroom or with virtual e-learning
79 page Teacher Guide with Curriculum Lessons, Quizzes and Quiz Answer sheet
Lesson 1 – Electricity & Circuits
Lesson 2 – Motors & Flying Saucers
Lesson 3 – Light
Lesson 4 – Sound
Lesson 5 – Switches
Lesson 6 – Telecommunication & FM Radio
Lesson 7 – Learning Parallel vs. Series Circuits
Winner of Creative Child Magazine Creative Play of the Year, Product of the Year for 2017, TillyWig Brain Child, and Purdue University Engineering and Design Award!
- Great addition to any STEM program.
- Online Curriculum Included.
- Learn all about electricity, current and voltage.
- Discover how lights, alarms, motors, switches and more work all while building fun projects.
- Build a real working FM radio and listen to your favorite station.
- Compatible with other building brick sets.
- Build 120 different projects.
- Contains 46 parts
- Requires 3 "AA" batteries
- Ages 8 and up.
$50.95
STEAM Design Challenges, Grades 6-8
$19.99
Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!
This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:
- A year's worth of teacher lesson plans
- STEAM design challenges that turn middle school students into inventors
- Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson)
- Classroom-tested lessons
The STEAM Design Challenges in this 152-page book follow engineering practices to teach students in Grades 6-8 to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed.
These engaging STEAM lessons:
- Integrate the Next Generation Science Standards and national standards from other disciplines
- Enhance learning across various disciplines
- Facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios
- Promote critical thinking, analytical thinking, and reflective thinking
- Incorporate the Five Es Instructional Model (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate)
- Are classroom tested
Engineering Design Process
The lessons in this book are intended to support the engineering design process in which teachers become a facilitator by encouraging and guiding students to work as a team to find a creative solution to a real-world problem without providing step-by-step instructions. Students are inspired to act as scientists and engineers through the use of sketches, diagrams, mathematical relationships, and literacy connections. By creating their very own models and products based on background information from their studies, students are immediately engaged through a meaningful, rewarding lesson.
More about the lessons
Each lesson begins by presenting students with a design challenge scenario in order to immediately exite students with a real-world situation that they are on a mission to solve. Students are then given a dilemma, mission, and blueprint design sheet and are asked to collaborate with team members to create several prototypes. Students present their prototypes to their teacher, construct their design, test their design, engage in a class discussion about their design, and then modify their design. Finally, teams create a justification piece in order to sell their new prototype (ex. persuasive letter, video, advertisement etc.).
About the Authors
The Steam Dreamers, a group of four classroom teachers, desired to create more interactive learning environments and science classrooms through student-centered problem-solving lessons. They created this collection of cross-curricular design challenge lessons to provide teachers and students with real-world scenarios that are driven by core learning standards and enriched through the inclusion of literacy and the arts.
E-Blox® Power Blox™ Starter Class Set
$229.99
- Contains 100 unique, patented parts including 24 LEDs you won't find in any other toy brick set
- Patented technology enables you to build 3D circuits into your structure with no wires!
- Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
- Requires four 9V battery
- Ages 8 and up
- STEAM product that teaches how to build 3D series and parallel circuits to light your imaginative creations
- Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.
PowerClix® Frames Natural, 74-piece set
$99.95
$19.99
Brackitz® Bugz Play Park 47-Piece Set
$29.99
The Brackitz Bugz Playpark has 47 pieces including a motorized vibrating bug and directions for building over 20 play parks and obstacles. Race your motorized bug through crazy obstacles like the Toppling Tower, Super Spinner or make your own. Every race and playpark combination is different - The possibilities are endless. No helmet required.
- Unlimited possibilities
- Design your own parks and bugz
- Three balls included
- Unique, Rotating Connect-Anywhere System
- All Brackitz sets work together for mix-n-match play!
Instant STEM Activities, Grade 2
$16.99
$19.99
- STEM-focused activity set challenges kids to build, test, and tweak their approaches to solving physics-based challenges
- Learn concepts of speed, angles, and distance during hands-on attempts at mastering included challenges
- Included activity booklet features challenges that scale and grow with your kids' own growing skill set
- Send balls flying through hoops and toward targets with kid-powered paddlewheel—no batteries, springs or rubber bands required