Third Grade STEM Challenges and Activities
These challenges are designed specifically for third grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards!
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Description
These challenges are designed specifically for third grade students and align with crosscutting NGSS science, math, and engineering standards!
Six challenges are provided to cover major science content areas: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions, Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits, Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity, Earth’s Systems, and Earth and Human Activity
Pages 5-10: Magnetic Maze
Pages 11-15: Marshmallow Catapult
Pages 16-22: Genetic Links
Pages 23-27: Super Animal
Pages 28-33: Close Up Climate
Pages 34-38: Flood-proof House
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 useon a document camera or interactive whiteboard
- Student booklet to record prior knowledge, questions, materials, blueprints, and reflections
