Fifth Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for fifth grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards!
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These challenges are designed specifically for fifth grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards!
Six challenges are provided to cover major science content areas: Matter and its Interactions, Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions, From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes, Earth’s Place in the Universe, and Earth’s Systems
Pages 5-9: Balloon Car
Pages 10-14: Candy Chemistry
Pages 15-19: Perfect Parachute
Pages 20-25: Plant Essentials
Pages 26-30: Shadow Clock
Pages 31-35: Earth in a Bottle
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
