In this lesson students engineer ramps and race monster trucks. Students estimate and measure distances traveled and then organize and visually represent this data in a graph.

The first day and week of school is key for students to feel welcome in their classes and to your class. The activities planned from the first day onward are integral in making connections. This initial assignment is designed to help students in your class explore their voice, ability, and personal identity.

Students Share Their Reading Through A Short Movie! Integrates plot structure, main ideas and summarizing.
Much better than a written report!

In this lesson, students will be determining the central idea of a text about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. They will also examine how quotes help to develop a central idea. Next, they will be writing an objective summary. Students will then research information from NASA about becoming an astronaut, as well as quotes that support why someone should become an astronaut. Finally, students will plan and write an argumentative essay about why someone should apply to become an astronaut using claims, evidence, and commentary. To enhance this lesson with a digital focus, instead of the traditional essay format in the origial plan, students can be given the choice of several digital mediums to present their findings. This digital foucs allows for student choice, selection and/or creation of visuals to support student thinking and arguments, and customization of content for the stuent's specific audience. 

Students will plan and design a rocket that will travel the greatest distance. Students will consider what they know about rockets, energy, lengths and distances while using a budget to build their rockets.

In this lesson, students use their knowledge of sound energy to create a soundproof box to protect a secret code word! Students measure and graph decibels to determine how well their boxes omit sounds!

After a long three day weekend, STEM Lake is flooded with trash! With your team, engineer a device that can collect the trash from STEM Lake with Sphero.

In this lesson students create large story maps to retell and familiar text. Students record themselves and place QR codes along the story map. Students then code Sphero Robots, dressed as main characters, to make their way through each part of the story.

Students design a house built for a family of 5 via Habitat for Humanity. The house must include bedrooms, bathroom(s), a kitchen, and living room for a budget then pitch finished house plans to the Habitat for Humanity executive board.

This lesson combines a read aloud book with musical accompaniment. Students will perform a simple repeating rhythm pattern on each page of the book. Students will be motivated with the interactive elements of reading the story. Students will anticipate and predict the text of the story and will read along with a phrase from each page of the book. This lesson can be facilitated by non-music teachers as well as music teachers. Any teacher can incorporate simple rhythms and melodies into read alouds, increasing engagement and motivation for students!

This lesson combines a read aloud book with musical accompaniment. Students will perform a simple repeating rhythm pattern on each page of the book. Students will be motivated with the interactive elements of reading the story. Students will anticipate and predict the text of the story and will read along with a phrase from each page of the book. This lesson can be facilitated by non-music teachers as well as music teachers. Any teacher can incorporate simple rhythms and melodies into read alouds, increasing engagement and motivation for students!