STEM Resources
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Pre-Coding Penguin Activity Cards
$24.95
Designed to be used alongside the Pre-Coding Penguin Stones, these sturdy and washable plastic cards will inspire the use of specific positional and directional language, as children have fun moving the penguins around their natural environments. They include a range of activities that will extend children's matching, sequencing, pattern making and logical thinking. And, once children are secure with the physical skills of ordering and maneuvering, they will have the confidence to apply the same skills in more abstract ways with digital interfaces. Size: 8" x 11". Age 3+.
Mind Sparks® Magnetic Marble Run
$24.99
Reinforce critical and logical thinking, along with spatial ability, patience and color/shape recognition with Mind Sparks® Magnetic Marble Run! Versatile, multi-level STEAM activity for kids of all ages beginning at 5+, perfect for home and classroom use! This 34 piece set includes 1 magnetic board, 13 durable magnetic tracks, 9 multi-level cards ranging from easy to challenging game play, 4 magnetic arrows, 3 white marbles, 3 magnetic obstacles and 1 answer key. Packaged in a reusable, retail-friendly storage box with product-viewing window and convenient carrying handle, this activity is sure to keep children engaged for hours!
$12.99
STEM classroom decorations provide easy, effective ways to enhance learning.
The STEM bulletin board set contains a resource guide and 4 photographic charts to introduce students to the career fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Each 17" x 24" chart features inquiry-based topics to assist students in solving real-world problems.
The Mark Twain Publishing Company provides classroom decorations and supplemental books for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. These products are designed by leading educators and cover science, math, behavior management, history, government, language arts, fine arts, and social studies.
Features:
- Resource Guide
$16.95
Train young brains to think in multiple dimensions, transferring 2-D information into 3-D reality! Brain Builders has a 2-D diagram on one side of each card, and a photographic solution on the other. Brain Builders Junior features a photo of a fun, recognizable object to replicate. Each set includes 20 KEVA planks, 30 double-sided cards and instructions in a zippered carrying case.
STEM & STEAM Bulletin Board Set
$11.99
Create visually dynamic bulletin boards to generate excitement for your STEM/STEAM activities and events, inspire student interest, promote creativity, super-charge imaginations, and spark more hands-on, “maker” endeavors by students. Posters are graphically compatible with the popular superhero and comic book classroom themes already in use. Set includes eight 17" x 11" (43.2 x 27.9 cm) posters. 8 pieces
STEAM Design Challenges, Grades 6-8
$19.99
Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons!
Perfect for Makerspace and STEM programs!
This teacher resource book for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades includes:
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:
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.
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.
City Engineering & Design Building Set
$27.99
Encourage an early love of STEM learning with this one-of-a-kind City Building Set. Your little engineers can create their own skyscrapers, cranes, bridges and more with 89 easy-to-assemble pieces. Use the included activity cards to complete design challenges, or create your own city. It's a unique way to challenge logic, problem solving, and engineering skills.
Educational Benefits
Includes
Educational Benefits
- Learning Styles: Tactile, Visual
- Skill Development: Problem solving, Following directions, Fine motor skills, Eye-hand coordination, Sequential thought, Critical thinking, Spatial relationships, Creativity, Early engineering
Includes
- 89 buildable pieces, 10 cards, 1 sticker sheet
- activity cards
Platform measures 4.25” x 4.25”
STEM Basics: Craft Sticks, 500 Count
$5.99
These everyday items provide you with the basic materials you need to build your next STEM creation. We provide the "basics," but the rest is up to you, your creativity, and your STEM skills.
$9.99
STEAM Projects is designed with projects, experiments, demonstrations, and resources that help students see the connections among the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. The key is for students to engage in the process by experimenting, observing phenomena, and presenting research findings. Easy to set up activities, most requiring only one to two class periods, investigate topics in physics, chemistry, earth sciences, plant and animal sciences, the human body, and space and atmospheric sciences.Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.
$19.99
Give kids a fast and friendly introduction to speed, angles, and distances with the hands-on learning challenges of the Wacky Wheels STEM Challenge set from Learning Resources. This compelling physics-inspired activity set gives kids a seemingly simple goal—send the included launch balls rolling up ramps, over obstacles, through a target hoop, and into the goal cup. Once they begin, kids use trial-and-error play as they tweak the course setups, launch speeds, and other variables in search of a successful result. In addition to designers, kids are also the Wacky Wheels STEM Challenge's prime power source—the set's paddlewheel launcher operates without the need for batteries, rubber bands, or springs, giving kids hands-on lessons in force every time they send a ball flying. This set includes a full-color booklet filled with challenges both simple and complex, a combination that keeps kids (and adults) coming back for additional playtime.
- 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
E-Blox® Circuit Blox™ Class Set, 120 projects
$369.99
This set provides four Circuit Blox 120 kits, all packed into a sturdy storage case for sharing in the classroom.
- Contains 196 parts
- Build 120 different projects that all teach STEM
- Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
- Requires 12 "AA" batteries
- Ages 8 and up
- Learn about voltage, current and how circuits with switches, LEDs, motors , speakers, integrated circuits, amplifiers and FM receivers work.
- Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.
$12.99
Motivate students to learn more about science, technology, engineering, art, and math with the 22-piece STEAM Bulletin Board. The delightful art style of the posters in this set will encourage your students to go full steam ahead! This bulletin board set includes these pieces:- 1 header, assembled from 2 pieces (12.7" x 22.5")- 1 large chart (17" x 23")- 5 small charts (11.5" x 17")- 1 rocket (15.8" x 23.5")- 13 STEAM symbols (largest: 6" x 5", smallest: 2.8" x 3.4")Curriculum-based bulletin boards sets are perfect for classrooms with limited display space. They allow you to create a fun and inviting atmosphere while presenting essential standards-based content in a visually appealing way. Each set reinforces important skills and learning strategies and can be displayed for your students to reference all year long. Make sure to view coordinating products to create a unified classroom theme.