by Meredith Martin | Feb 5, 2015 | Common Core Standards, How-To, resources, Science, STEM
Our 4th graders are learning about adaptations, so I put together this fun lab for them. We had a ton of fun with it. This is a fun lab for learning about adaptations. Students will rotate between stations with different types of ‘bird food’ and use...
by Meredith Martin | Feb 3, 2015 | Common Core Standards, How-To, resources, Science, STEM
Time for some more STEM lessons. I ran this one with my 6th graders and they loved it! Make sure you have plenty of space. When we look at traditional models of the solar system, the distances between planets does not seem that great. In reality, the planets are...
by Meredith Martin | Dec 10, 2014 | resources, Science, STEM
Our fourth graders are studying animal classification, and one of the teachers asked if I could come up with a STEM lesson to go along with their unit. After browsing through a ton of ideas (thank you, Google and Pinterest!) I put together a lab where students will...