Develop your fifth 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 5 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.

• Mousetrap (Life Science Concept: Simple Machines)
• Oil Spill Boom (Earth Science Concept: Buoyancy/Properties of Oil)
• Remote-Control Game (Physical Science Concept: Compound Machines)

• Patented Technology you won't find in any other toy brick set.
• No Wires! Build circuits directly into your projects.
• Stimulate young minds with creativity, imagination and science.
• Light up your 3D circuits with our unique power block.
• Great addition to any STEAM curriculum.
• Use your own imagination to create awesome structures
• Compatible with other toy brick sets
• Enhance and bring lights to your other builds.
• Contains 25 parts.
• One (1) 9V Battery Required.
• Ages 8 and up.

This kit provides hours of fun and educational play for kids 8 and up. The colorful transparent building blocks allow lights to pass through them, creating a dazzling display of colorful lights, bringing your creation to life!

An instruction sheet is included which gives you step-by-step instructions on how to connect the sound activated module, multi-LED module, and battery block together. Once those are connected, simply stack the transparent spacer blocks in
any confi guration and watch your creation light up in different colors and dance when you play music or speak to it!

The kit includes a voice/sound controller module, color changing lamp module, battery block, and 25 transparent plastic spacers.

Have you ever wanted to live like someon else for a day, or maybe visit Antartica, or jump inside your favorite video game? With virtual reality, you can do all of these things! This technology can make you feel as though you are having an amazing adventure - even if you are just sitting in your living room. Learn all about the ins and outs of viritual reality.

As part of the Searchlight Books collection, this series explores the latest and greatest in the world of technology. Fascinating text, vivid photos, and real-world examples bring these amazing breakthroughs to life!

Students can design and build an endless variety of structures, from skyscrapers to submarines, dinosaurs to storybook characters using the kit's multi-use planks, rotating pieces and connecting hubs. 320 pieces.

There are 395 different projects to build, and all parts are compatible with our Power BloxTM line to add even more fun to your building experience. Some of the fun projects you will build include light activated sirens, alarms, birthday song,
fl ying fan, and transistor amplifiers.

The kit includes various switches, lamp, heart and star LEDs, speaker, audio block, amplifier block, FM receiver block, motor, resistors, photoresistor, capacitors, transistor and more!

• Great addition to any STEM program.
• 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 395 different projects.
• Contains 68 parts
• Requires 3 "AA" batteries
• Ages 8 and up.

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.
• 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.

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.