Fourth Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for fourth grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards!
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These challenges are designed specifically for fourth grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards!
Six challenges are provided to cover major science content areas: Energy, Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer, Earth’s Systems, and Earth and Human Activity
Pages 5-9: Pinball Machine
Pages 10-14: Nifty Night Light
Pages 15-21: Brick by Brick
Pages 22-27: Map a Mountain
Pages 28-32: Solar Snack
Pages 33-37: Shaky Structure
Each challenge in this package contains the following items:
- Challenge Description, Aligned NGSS Standards, Suggested Materials, and Detailed Lesson Plans
- Photos of possible student products
- Teacher Chart to guide whole class discussion for use on a document camera or interactive whiteboard
- Student booklet to record prior knowledge, questions, materials, blueprints, and reflections
