Unit Plan
Scholastic

STEM Challenges and Activity Sheets for Grades 6–8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
From 3-D cities to building bridges, young engineers engage in innovative STEM challenges that promote brainstorming and collaboration. Learners take on the roles of different types of engineers as well as become familiar...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

STEM Challenges and Activity Sheets 3–5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How can engineers help their communities? Three challenges in the first unit explore why STEM is important to communities and how neighborhoods are engineered to experience those benefits. The second unit prompts groups to plan an...
Lesson Plan
Judicial Branch of California

Separate But Equal - Is It Black or White?

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The story of Ruby Bridges and the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education are fantastic tools for discussing the concept of separate but equal. Kids tackle some big questions about what is fair, what is civil, and what rights or laws...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building a Bridge

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover architecture and functionality by constructing a bridge.  In this bridge engineering activity, 3rd graders utilize cardboard, straws, towel tubes and plastic bottles to create a model bridge similar to ones...