Creative Teaching Press STEAM Design Challenges Resource Book, 2nd Grade (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) (8209)

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these steam lessons! perfect for makerspace! this second grade teacher resource book includes: a year's worth of teacher lesson plans, steam design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors, easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson), classroom-tested lessons. The steam design challenges in this book follow engineering practices to teach students in grade 2 to solve a problem by designing, creating, and justifying their designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed. These engaging steam lessons: integrate the next generation science standards and national standards from other disciplines, enhance learning across various disciplines, facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios, promote critical thinking, analytical thinking, and reflective thinking, incorporate the five friends instructional 8209 (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate) and are classroom tested.

• 152 pages; Authors: Michelle Powers, Teri Barenborg, Tari Sexton, and Lauren Monroe
• Gr 2., includes a year's worth of lessons!
• Fun and engaging steam lessons promote analytical and reflective thinking
• Integrates the next generation science standards and National standards from other disciplines