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In this four-part web seminar series, we'll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they've observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

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Free offerings focused on Distance Learning Free NSTA Web Seminars Free Interactive eBook and Featured Lesson Plan In this four-part web seminar series, we'll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they've observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

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Looking for STEM projects and challenges for kids? Building and engineering projects are valuable for developing thinking skills and encouraging the ability to design and create.
The tough part, though, is that teachers often have to purchase the materials at their own expense. At home, we don't need to supply enough materials for a class, but with five kids to feed, house, and educate we can't constantly be buying special materials either. Here's a collection of STEM engineering challenges that are fun and engaging, and that also make use of recycled or inexpensive materials.
ENGINEERING WITH PAPER
Let's start with projects that rely on a simple and readily available material - paper!

Which paper column can support the most weight? from Creekside Learning. The result was not what I expected!

Build a Newspaper Fort - This is amazing! And all you need is newspapers and tape. Granted, newspapers are harder to come by than they used to be, but maybe you can find a friend or a dentist office that will save some for you!

Build a Conveyor Belt from Pink Stripey Socks. Use a milk carton and paper, and a few other simple materials!

Make some Paper Building Blocks from Babble Dabble Do. So simple and colorful.

Paper Airplane Challenge from Kids Activities Blog. Which plane can carry the most cargo?
BUILDING WITH SIMPLE MATERIALS
This one is our most popular STEM post: 4 Engineering Challenges with Craft Sticks, Cups, and Cubes. I enjoyed this as much as the kids, and it works for all ages. It's amazing what kids can construct with these simple materials, and they'll be learning a ton about balance and center of gravity.

If you like that one, also try 5 Engineering Challenges with Clothespins, Craft Sticks, and Binder Clips. These materials make an awesome building kit! We have ours stored in a plastic shoebox.

Turn a Large Cardboard Box into an EPIC Marble Run - This is seriously awesome.

Make a marble run on a smaller scale - Shoebox Marble Run. Shoe boxes, craft stick, and hot glue - that's it! Again, you'll be amazed what you can create. The post has lots of inspiration.

Build a Bridge out of Straws and Straight Pins. Great classroom challenge. The straight pins work well for holding the straws together.

How strong is spaghetti? Test how much weight this material will hold! This is an impressive STEM challenge!

Build a Marble Run with Play Dough - YES, play dough! Grab a cookie sheet and try this fun challenge!

Collect some sticks and try building a raft that floats! From Kids Craft Room.

Build a Straw Roller Coaster for a ping pong ball to roll down! Drinking straws and hot glue, and that's it. Use a low temp gun and kids can make this themselves.

Build a Labyrinth Game with a cardboard box and craft sticks. The finished game is seriously addicting!

Create a Hexbug Maze with Straws from Buggy and Buddy. This is a great cooperative project for groups of kids.

It's also fun to build a Hexbug Maze with Cardboard and Craft Sticks.
EXPLORE FORCE AND MOTION - CATAPULTS AND MORE!
Make Working Gears with Popsicle Sticks - such a fun mechanical project.

Build a Popsicle Stick Catapult. You probably have all the supplies on hand to make this fun catapult!

Balloon Pinwheel - This is a great way to demonstrate Newton's third law of motion!

Make a Ping Pong Ball Launcher with a plastic bottle. Fun toy.

Create an Epic Bottle Rocket out of a 2 liter soda bottle. It flew higher than our house!

Build a Tissue Box Catapult and then launch small Lego bricks or ping pong balls or marshmallows.

Use marbles and a ruler to explore the transfer of energy. A favorite science experiment.
MAGNETISM
I think my kids would tinker with these Magnetic Sculptures all day long! What a great idea from Babble Dabble Do.

Use magnets to create a Magic Spinning Pen.

Make a Magnet Powered Car from Science Kiddo. This is a fun idea!

Defy Gravity with Magnetsfrom Buggy and Buddy! You can probably set this up with things you have on hand.

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Teachers are preparing to transition to hybrid learning, social distant learning and E-learning scenarios for the upcoming school year. Over the last two months I've been teaching STEM, robotics, coding and engineering class online to students ages 4-12. I decided to start compiling some great activities with links to the authors and mentioning any tweaks I made so the lessons worked virtually.

Build a Tower for Rapunzel

I purchased Jenny LaRocque's Fairy Tale STEM well over a year ago. It's been a huge hit in my classroom. This week I tried it online with my Kinder-STEM group adding the constraint of having to have a door for Rapunzel to enter and exit from.

I started the class off with the read aloud below. I teach in India so the representation was much appreciated.

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3 Tested STEM Lessons for Distant Learning - Sprouting STEMs

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Making slime is one of the activities on our STEM at home menu. Making slime is a great way to teach about states of matter. It is also a fun way for students to learn about chemical reactions.

To make slime you will need the following ingredients:

Materials Needed:

Follow the Steps:

1. Pour one 5 ounce bottle of glue into the mixing bowl.

2. If the glue is not already colored add a few drops of food coloring. (optional)

3. Next add 1.5 Tbs of baking soda to the glue.

4. Finally add 3 Tbs of contact solution to the mixture and stir.

Have your kids observe what changes occur to the mixture once the contact solution is added. What state of matter do they observe? They should take note that the liquid glue mixture has changed to solid slime.

For more step by step instructions for making slime with photos see this blog post.

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Making slime is one of the activities on our STEM at home menu. Making slime is a great way to teach about states of matter. It is also a fun way for students to learn about chemical reactions. To make slime you will need the following ingredients: Pour one 5 ounce bottle of glue into the mixing bowl.

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Goal Setting with Student-Created Vision Boards in Google Slides!

A great idea for a new year! Student-Created Vision Boards with Google Slides! A student-created vision board is a great way to help students set goals and visualize reaching them! We often use the start of a new year, new school year, or new semester to set goals, personal and professional. Visualization is one of the most powerful exercises for the mind and for reaching your goals. Let's take advantage of this fantastic strategy with students.
What is a Vision Board?
A vision board is a collection of images and words that represent the things you want in life-the things you want to do, the things you want to learn, the things you want to be. I create a vision board for myself each year, and I got to thinking about how valuable this experience could be for our students.

Often, vision boards are not digital, they are hands-on creations, cutting images from magazines, and gluing it together on posterboard. While this is fun and tangible, it may not be as classroom-friendly.

The Digital Vision Board
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You can create digital versions of vision boards using the tools of your choice. Google Slides or Google Drawings stand out as obvious choices when it comes to G Suite. I created an example using Google Slides and the Unsplash photos add-on to show how easy this activity can be. Of course, a digital version allows you to carry it with you wherever you go and regularly reflect on your progress.

Why Vision Boards?

Vision boards are nothing new, but they may be new to students and your classroom. Over the past few years, vision boards have been featured on TV shows such as Oprah and Ellen. Visualization can be a powerful mind-body connection in helping you stay focused on your goals. Let's leverage visualization for LEARNING!

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Vision boards also support Dynamic Learning and the ISTE Standards for Students! This is just one small way we can empower learners in our classrooms this year.

Through the Dynamic Learning model and framework, I shared some ways to go BEYOND, including a mindset to take learning BEYOND the BELL. One strategy to go BEYOND the BELL is to have students set their own learning goals. Help students write their own learning goals, both goals aligned to what they are learning in class, but also BEYOND. What problems would they like to solve? What's something they've always wanted to learn?

Creating Digital Vision Boards with Students

I think this is an activity that just about any student could produce. However, I would recommend this for grades 3 and up.

STEP 1:

Have students brainstorm their goals, both personal and academic. Give them good, guiding questions to help them imagine the end of the semester or school year and the things they hope to accomplish by that time.

You will need to help them understand the difference between unrealistic dreams (becoming King of England) and a realistic goal (reading two chapter books). But don't stifle the dreams in the process, just help them visualize all kinds of things for themselves.

- What have you always wanted to learn?

- Picture yourself at the end of the school year. What does it look like? What did you accomplish?

- What books do you want to read?

- What problems do you want to solve?

- What's something you struggle with that you would like to overcome?

- What's something you would like to learn in this class?.

Help students brainstorm a list of ten or more ideas. Then have students reduce that list to their top five or six. This could quickly get to be a long list and an even longer activity. Help students stay focused and to generate a good list of personal and academic goals. Three of each would be an excellent place to start. I would also suggest showing lots of examples, even creating one for yourself so your students can see the possibilities.

STEP 2:
Add Images
Create your vision boards in Google Slides! As I mentioned earlier, you could also do this in Drawings, but I think the new add-ons for Slides gives it the edge.

- Add images from the Explore tool. Go to Tools>Explore and search. Click on Images, then just click-and-drag into the project. (Note: Click on the image to open and view usage rights. It will appear very small below the image.)

- Add images and icons using the Unsplash Add-On and the Icons by Noun Project Add-On. BOTH ARE FREE, but Icons requires attribution. (Note: Add-Ons do NOT work on mobile devices.)

- Add words, text, shapes, lines, arrows, emoji, even GIFs ...WHATEVER! (I would encourage you not to add video. GIFs could even get out of hand. Remember, you want this to be something they can glance at and visualize in less than a minute.)

Vision boards can take many forms; some are organized, some are chaotic, some are organized chaos. Check out this post from LifeHack for some fresh ideas.

Encourage originality and creativity! You don't want these to be cookie cutter; these should be very personalized!
Google Slides Tips and Tricks: Other Ideas to Spice Up the Boards:
Although the focus of this post is a digital vision board, you can easily go old school with this and get out the scissors, glue, poster board, and magazines. If you do this, take a picture of each vision board so students can save to their Google Drive.

- Use one collaborative slide deck for the entire class and have students comment on each other. (Note: You may want them to create independently first, so they aren't all choosing the same goals and images.)

- Sprinkle some Bitmoji fun in there! (where age appropriate)

- Even add emojis!

- Track goals in Google Keep

- Use Flipgrid for reflection and periodic goal reviews (every 6-9 weeks)

- Share with the world! I would love to see these! Tag me on Twitter or Instagram @ShakeUpLearning.

STEP 3:

Save the vision boards in a shared folder in Google Drive, or if students are okay with it, publish the slide deck on a webpage or Google Site. You can keep it in the slide deck, or students could download their board as an image file (File>download as> png or jpeg.) They could save this image as the background on their personal device!

The key is to have it somewhere handy, so you can review your goals periodically throughout the year.

STEP 4:
What do you think? Will you try vision boards this year? Leave me a comment and share your thoughts! Love to see links to vision boards!
Review and track goals! Review your vision boards periodically. The timing is up to you as the teacher and what works for your classroom. Secondary students could also write out their goals in Google Keep and track their progress. Reflection, discussion, and review will make this a precious experience for students of all ages.

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Scientific Data: Observing, Recording, and Communicating Information

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The resources in this primary source set are intended for classroom use. If your use will be beyond a single classroom, please review the copyright and fair use guidelines.

Teacher's Guide

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For centuries, scientists have used words, numbers, and drawings in many different ways to record and communicate their efforts to make sense of the natural world.

Historical Background

Reports, maps, notes, letters, diagrams, sketches, and more: The artifacts in this set represent a broad sample of communication styles, formats, and methods in science, and were created by scientists across many historical eras in a wide range of disciplines. They provide rich opportunities to showcase those thinkers' efforts to document their investigations, and also offer glimpses into the nature of science.

Purpose, Audience, and Subject

Scientists create texts for different purposes and audiences. Sometimes scientists record their methods and the results of scientific investigations to inform their own future investigations. At other times, scientists write for their peers and contribute to discourse in a scientific community. Scientists can also communicate with a wider audience to inform or persuade. For example, many of Alexander Graham Bell's letters and notes about his investigations with sound and electricity were intended only for his wife; in contrast, the paintings of naturalist John James Audubon were intended for a wider audience and were part of an attempt to document all of the birds in the Americas.

Scientific texts like Bell's notes and Audubon's paintings can include distinctive features that offer clues to their purpose and audience, as well as to what is being studied. Sometimes scientists might use a combination of words and diagrams. In other cases, they might use keys, symbols, color coding, and tables to help organize and present data and observations. Scientists might use quantitative data to show observations about weather gleaned over time, the relationships between bodies in the solar system, or the workings of a battery.

The Nature of Science

Texts created by scientists can also reveal some of the characteristics of noticing, wondering, systematic study, and communicating that define science. In some cases, the texts are attempts to offer an explanatory model or to describe a cause and effect relationship among observed characteristics and phenomena. At the same time, each text is also part of an ongoing conversation across time in which new knowledge and ideas augment or replace prior understandings and thinking.

Scientists' efforts to record and share observations and data also illustrate similarities and differences in what scientists study and how they communicate about it within scientific disciplines. In biology, scientists might study life at the cellular, organism, or ecosystem level. In each instance, living things are the focus of observation and investigation. Examining texts about cells, mammals, or forests, especially in comparison with others, can reveal both common threads and points of divergence. Scientists interested in understanding Earth's systems may use maps to organize their observations about wind patterns, rock layers, or earthquakes. However, the features of these maps can differ quite a bit depending on what is being represented. Scientists studying how light behaves might observe rainbows, reflections, or eclipses. Comparing these texts provides a complex picture of light, its properties, and its role in our world.

Resizing and Modeling to Fit a Human Scale

Objects and phenomena under scientific study span extreme scales, in terms of both size and time. Chemists might observe reactions that happen in milliseconds, while geologists study events that play out over millions of years. Scientists, however, must share observations and data on a human scale. For example, scientists studying objects at atomic or microscopic levels must create models much larger than the actual objects. Scientists describing the solar system must shrink planets and the sun so that they can be held in the hand. By examining texts created by scientists, students can see the benefits and limitations of models in representing the relative size and speed of objects and phenomena.

Teaching Ideas

Use the items in this primary source set to explore the idea of science as a number of approaches to knowing and thinking. First, work as a class to list different types of sciences. Provide students with a set of items and ask them to sort them by discipline. What differences do they notice about the phenomena studied by scientists in different disciplines? What similarities do they see? If time allows, ask students to think of other ways to sort the items, such as the methods they see scientists using.

Use items from the set to help students strengthen their own scientific communication practices. Invite them to choose one primary source and identify how the creator organized and communicated information. How did the writer's choice of text, graphs, or images to convey information affect how easy it was to understand that information? Challenge students to think about the intended audience for the information and the choices the creator made to communicate with that audience. Group students and allow time for them to report their findings, compare texts and make a list of features that the texts have in common and a list of differences. Then ask them to revise one source for a different audience.

Introduce students to complex texts that express quantitative or technical information in both words and diagrams. Students might analyze texts that have maps or those that use tables to organize data. What choices did the scientist make when creating the text? In what ways are these attempts to communicate similar? And what is different about them? What other choices might a scientist have made? How might modern computing provide other possibilities for collecting and communicating data and observations? Prompt students to think about scale. Ask them to sort all or a selection of the items by the size of the object or phenomenon under study. For one or more items, ask them to think about: How might these models differ from the actual objects or phenomena? What challenges did the scientist face in communicating observations and discoveries? Students might also repeat the sort by time scale, considering the relative speed of the object or phenomenon under study.

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