Creative Teaching Press STEAM Design Challenges Resource Book, Gr. 1, CTP (8208)

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these steam lessons! perfect for makerspace! this first 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 1 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 8208 (engage, explore, explain, elaborate, evaluate), and are classroom tested.