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Tree House Engineering & Design Building Set
$16.99
Design and engineer the tree house of your dreams with this one-of-a-kind building set. Use the included activity cards to complete engineering challenges. Build railings, platforms, trees, and then use your problem solving skills to re-engineer your design. Kids will love building their tree house—parents will love that they're actually building critical thinking and STEM skills.
Educational Benefits
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
- 52-Piece set activity cards
$24.95
Study of Organic Chemistry
This Bio-Organic STEAM kit will inspire the artist and scientist alike! Make your own rock candy, sugar cubes and the clean up with your own homemade soaps.
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
$24.95
An exciting Science + Art kit that is sure to stretch your imagination! Create different forms of super stretchy polymers and make them bounce! Create putties that can be picked up, stretched, and even rolled into a ball that bounces. Using the same ingredients create an array of creative crafts that you can keep, like crystals and window clings! Learn about states of matter including liquids and polymers. This STEAM kit is a basic introduction to chemistry and material engineering for ages 6 and up with adult supervision.
$23.39
These dynamic resources provide guided lessons to integrate project-based learning into your science, technology, engineering, and math curriculum. Each unit provides background information for teachers and students and moves from teacher-directed activities toward more open-ended activities. The culminating activity in each unit allows students to design their own unique “invention” or conduct an experiment of their own creation. Students will be challenged to work collaboratively, using a design process that helps them “step into STEM” with greater competence and confidence. 160 pages.
$20.79
Get students fired up about careers in science and math with these fun, fill-in posters! The easy template guides kids through every step in the writing process to ensure a polished report on a standout scientist, tech guru, engineer, or mathematician. A great way to support the all-important STEM initiative! Pack of 30 posters, 17" x 22" each, plus complete teaching guide.
$149.99
Add the Pulleys & Cranks stack to your Structures Kits and students can explore how to make things that will haul, lift, slide and move up and down, as part of STEM and STEAM learning. Students can build zip lines that stretch more than 4 feet in length! Includes pulleys, axles, hubs, hook, cranks and string. The budding engineers in your classes will have fun building and cranking contraptions that haul, lift, slide and move up and down. Find activities and resources in the Lesson Plans & Resources section.
We Are Engineers! Bulletin Board Set
$16.89
Help budding engineers develop their STEM skills with this colorful collection featuring the steps in the Engineering Design Process. Students will love adding their photos under the We Are Engineers! banner. A great addition to any classroom.
Includes 56 pieces:
• We Are Engineers! banner (23" x 12")
• The Engineering Design Process banner (23" x 12.75")
• 5 engineering design process cards
• 36 student labels
• 13 cog accents
• Teaching guide
Includes 56 pieces:
• We Are Engineers! banner (23" x 12")
• The Engineering Design Process banner (23" x 12.75")
• 5 engineering design process cards
• 36 student labels
• 13 cog accents
• Teaching guide
Creative Investigations in Engineering & Technology
$16.95
Early childhood teachers continue to seek activities that promote STEM-based learning. But most STEM books focus on science and math, excluding technology and engineering. Creative Investigations in Early Engineering and Technology helps teachers create a more well-rounded STEM learning program.
- Encourage children to think, make, tinker and innovate
- Introduce engineering skills such as coding in a developmentally appropriate way
- Leverage children's use of digital technologies to help them learn new skills
- Promote active engagement and participation in classroom learning
Instant STEM Activities, Grade 5
$20.79
This must have resource is ideal to supplement, enhance or enrich any science program! Focus on concepts and skills to enable students to become familiar with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts. Students will be also introduced to STEM occupations. Pages are ready-to-go, reproducible and include informational text, experiments, extension activities and teacher pages.
$12.99
ncrease STEM proficiency with fun lab activities that encourage critical thinking and communication. STEM Labs for Middle Grades provides more than 50 integrated labs to cultivate student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Designed by leading educators, these activities require students to solve real-world problems using scientific inquiry, content knowledge, creativity, and teamwork!
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, this product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.
STEM Lessons & Challenges, Grade 1
$19.99
Develop your first grade students' creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.
Every grade 1 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.
STEM Lessons and Challenges fosters students' critical thinking, innovation, communication, and peer collaboration!
Every grade 1 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.
- The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.
- Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
- No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.
- Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
- Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
- Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
- A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
- Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
- A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.
- Marble Roller Coaster (Physical Science concept: Force and Motion)
- Natural Homes (Earth Science Concept: Natural Homes)
- Insect Catcher (Life Science Concept: Studying Insects)
STEM Lessons and Challenges fosters students' critical thinking, innovation, communication, and peer collaboration!