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Develop your sixth 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 6 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

• Teacher overview pages - Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge
• 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.

• Egg-Laying Box (Life Science Concept: Simple Machines (inclined plane)
• Submarine (Earth Science Concept: Buoyancy)
• Projector (Physical Science Concept: Optics)

• Grade: 6
• Weight: 0.88 lbs