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Illinois Valley Community College

STEM Activities for Middle School Students

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Use STEM activities within the class to provide connections to concepts. The resource includes activities that range from working with buoyancy to building rockets and launching them. Other activities involve the engineering design...
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Investigation: Crazy Caterpillars

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore biology patterns by creating a model insect. In this patterns lesson plan, 1st graders utilize snap cubes and pattern blocks to recreate their own version of a centipede or caterpillar. Students create their...
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Monopoly Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students relate the concepts of linear functions to the game of monopoly. In this algebra instructional activity, students solve problems with ratio and proportion. They collect data and graph it.
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Estimating the Live Mass of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars calculate the volume of scale model dinosaurs using a water displacement method. They use formulas to calculate the live mass each of the species of dinosaur. Then they complete and discuss a series of questions.