Each unit includes stories and practice pages that help children understand science concepts and provide a foundation for completing each STEM challenge. A STEM journal activity helps guide children through the engineering design process: plan, create, test, and record.
Topics within each STEM challenge target earth, life, and physical science. Each unit covers a specific scientific concept and includes:
- Science Story: Introduces each science concept
- Practice Activities: Support children’s understanding
- STEM Story: Fictional story with a problem to solve
- STEM Challenge: Hands-on activity to solve a problem
- STEM Journal: Provides a planning outline to help complete the challenge activity
Smart Start STEM Grade 1
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First grade STEM skills include:
- Connect words and pictures
- Fine motor skills
- Letter formation
- Visual discrimination
- Word meaning
- Sequencing
- Inference
- Comprehension
First grade activities incorporate scientific concepts such as:
*Physical science- Solids, Liquids, Gas
- Parts Work Together
- Making Sound
*Life science
- Living Things Have Parts
- What Do Animals Eat?
- Animals and Their Babies
*Earth science
- The Moon
- Bodies of Water
- Recording Weather