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Storytime STEM Pack: On The Construction Site

Storytime STEM Pack: On The Construction Site
Subject ELA Elementary School Literacy Reading STEM Inventory Books
This Storytime STEM-Pack includes all the materials you need to engage kids in an engineering design task that also explores the concept of properties of matter. The activity is launched by reading the popular children's book On the Construction Site with them, and challenges the children to build a house, solving the problem, to provide shelter for a bear family, using appropriate building materials. Included in this set, you'll find:

  • Detailed instructions (i.e., lesson plan) for the learning activities
  • House making materials for eight groups of three kids (construction paper, aluminum foil, plastic sheeting, tissue paper, masking tape)
  • Bears (18 bears total, size and color vary)
  • Word wall cards to use in context 
  • A copy of On the Construction Site by Carron Brown

The entire activity tapakes approximately 45 minutes to complete.  This STEM-Pack is suitable for grades PreK-2.

IMPORTANT NOTES: PLEASE READ!

NOTE: Storytime STEM-packs users will need to submit a list of any kit consumables that were used while in your classroom so they can be replenished for the next reservation. 

Email STEMLibrary@caiu.org with the name of your kit, type(s) and amounts of materials consumed during the time you borrowed the kits. 

Able to replenish the items yourself through the stash of typical school supplies? Awesome! Please consider doing so and pay it forward. 
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