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Meet the Micro:bits
Coding is easy and fun when students meet the micro:bits. Learn to write and download code, so you are ready to create your own scientific tools!
Meet the Micro:bits
Coding is easy and fun when students meet the micro:bits. Learn to write and download code, so you are ready to create your own scientific tools!
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Student Edition
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Student Edition
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California Wildfires
Meet Kea and The STEMTools
Thank you for adopting Kea! She has been waiting a long time for this.
A Nice Neighborhood
Students observe animal homes in ocean rocks with Maggie magnifying glass and compare the diversity of mammals in different habitats - A special look at the intertidal zone.
2-LS4-1
Let's Go for a seed walk
Students explore seeds under the microscope as they study they ways that nature disperses seeds.
2-LS2-2
Reversible changes
Some changes in matter are reversible and some are not. In this lab students will see that salt can disappear in water and then reappear when the water evaporates.
Sandstone Erosion
The earth's processes happen Slow
Maps
The Many Shapes of Land and Water 2-ESS1-1
What my Bike is Made of
Sensory Table Play: describe, classify, and sort different kinds of materials 2-PS1-1, 2-PS1-2
Snap Circuits
The building blocks of electronics can be rearranged into new things 2-PS1-3
Reversable & Irreversable Changes
Favorite Animal Show and Tell
Compare the diversity of mammals in different habitats - A special look at Salamanders 2-LS4-1
Therma's Socks
The Earth Changes Fast & Slow
Earthquakes, plate tectonics, and volcanos 2-ESS1-1
Students use a Thermometer and colored fabric to determine the effect of the suns warming on different colors. Therma's knowlege of colored socks will be used to solve a problem for the nearspace program K-2-ETS1-1
Camera Insulating Jacket
Engineering Design
Students are in charge of choosing the best solar heating color and windproof texture of the fabric that will become a nearspace camera insulating jacket. Students choose a color and material for a solar heating jacket that will go up to nearspace to protect the onboard camera. The geometry of the fabric will be analyzed microscopically and experimentally for wind breaking ability. The problem situation will be defined for the student and the students will test a few solutions with experimentation.
Paricutin
I Can Grow Plants
Plants need sunlight and water to grow 2-LS2-1
Some changes cause by heating and cooling can be reversed and some can not 2-PS1-4
Meet Kea and The STEMTools
Thank you for adopting Kea! She has been waiting a long time for this.
Sound Vibrations - Clap Stick
A Yokuts Tribal Member teaches children to make a traditional Yokuts musical Instrument. Your class can learn to sing the Eagle Song in the Yokuts Language. Explore vibrations and sound (Physics 1-PS4-1).
Measuring with Cubie
Time to go on a measuring adventure. In this lab students learn to use Mezzie the measuring tape, and how to measure with one inch measuring cubes.
1st Grade
The Technology of Nature
Design a solution to a problem by mimicking nature - Burs, thorns, turtle shells, and birds. 1-LS1-1
Flowers Microscopy Lab
Observe flowers in an amazing new way!
NGSS 1-L23-1
Measuring Shells
Time to go on a measuring adventure.
Young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents. 1-LS3-1
Lifecycles
Parent and offspring behaviors that help offspring survive. NGSS: 1-LS1-2, CCSS: R1.1.10, R1.1.2
animl Rescue Hospital
The Sun, Moon, and Stars
Discuss patterns you can see in our skies. Hands on activity that helps them see what is going on.
You can teach a first grader anything if you set it up right. They are eager to learn and truly amazing little scientists with so many questions. You'll take their observations of the world around them to the next level and see the joy as they use their STEM tools to discover all the Next Generation Science Standards.
Why We can see
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.
NGSS: 1PS4-2&3, CCSS: MP.5, SL.1.1, W.1.8, W.1.7
Meet Kea and The STEMTools
Thank you for adopting Kea! She has been waiting a long time for this.
Harvesting Corn
Students learn what plants and animals need to survive and observe seeds and sprouts under the microscope.
NGSS K-LS1-1
STEMPlay With Seeds
Students learn about seeds and what plants need to survive through STEMPlay with Playable the Table and Kea's STEMTools.
NGSS K-LS1-1
Sensory Table Play With Marbles
Students compare the effects of different strengths and directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object and change the speed of an object with a push or a pull
K-PS2-1
Making Shade
Students create something that makes shade, observing the effect of sunlight and reducing the warming effect of the sun.
NGSS K-PS3-2, K-PS3-2
Measuring Pushes and Pulls
Students make their own measurements to explore the effects of the strength of pushes and pulls using Qubie Blocks
Forces K-PS2-1
Pet Rescue Hospital
The needs of living things in relation to where they live.
NGSS K-ESS3-1
Pumpkins and apples
The Weather Outside
Students meet Therma, experiment, and learn how to measure the weather outside.
NGSS K-ESS2-1
Learn to Measure Liquids
Students practicine counting and measuring by 10 with Tedros Test Tube.
STEMPlay With Blockey Car
The effect of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
NGSS K-PS2-1
Students learn what plants need to survive in a fun and playful STEMTool way.
NGSS K-LS1-1