📖 Stem. Lessons and Challenges. Grade 4

Develop your fourth grade students’ creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems. Every grade 4 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations. The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, earth, and physical science concepts. Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign. No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day. Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge, including: Teacher overview pages. — Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather. Reading selections for background knowledge. — Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing. Visual real-world examples. — A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge. A STEM challenge overview. — Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm. Design process worksheets. — Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation. A redesign page to evaluate their design. — The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.