Great 5th grade unit that was developed by Tom Kiehfuss at San Pedro. Tom used "The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine" by Don Abramson for his close reading text (from Pearson). Google it! 3-5-ETS1-2 Engineering Design 3-5-ETS1-1 Engineering Design 5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity 5-PS3-1 Energy (focusing mainly on the crosscutting concept that Energy can be transferred in various ways and between objects). Power Point was too big too attach to this site. I converted it to a PDF. Please email me if you want the Powerpoint version 4th grade at Dixie used the EIE Windmill unit. Megan writes: "I didn't have enough time to go through the whole unit so I pieced together a 6 lesson mini unit. I also modified the materials that were used to construct the windmills." Building windmills at Bahia Vista, Colin Johnson, 4th grade (Using Engineering is Elementary lessons) 6th Grade- Davidson Middle School- John Flanagan
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Marin Municipal Water District has educational resources, maps, and provide school assemblies. Robert Atkinson, 4th grade teacher at Brookside states, "We had an assembly from their school education program which was really great. They gave all the teachers a deck of wonderfully illustrated water cards with some fun activities." 6th graders at Davidson Middle School are building solar cookers, making wind powered pulleys, and setting up weather stations to collect data!
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iTEAMS is a professional development research project designed to provide teachers with support to deepen their content knowledge and pedagogy to promote STEM education aligned to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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