Grade PreK:
Engage your child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process.
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.
Recipient of Creative Child Magazine's 2022 Creative Play of the Year Award, Smart Start: STEM encourages little learners to use critical and creative thinking strategies to solve problems.
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
Includes answer key.
PreK STEM skills include:
- Visual discrimination
- Fine motor skills
- Comparisons
- Letter formation
- Sequencing
PreK activities incorporate scientific concepts such as:
Physical science
- Shapes and sizes
- Magnets
- Floating/sinking
Life science
- Animals
- Plants
- People grow and change
Earth science
- Rocks
- Weather
- Air
Grade K:
Engage your child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process.
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.
Recipient of Creative Child Magazine's 2022 Creative Play of the Year Award, Smart Start: STEM encourages little learners to use critical and creative thinking strategies to solve problems.
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
Includes answer key.
Kindergarten STEM skills include:
- Comparisons
- Letter formation
- Fine motor skills
- Cause and effect
- Visual discrimination
- Sequencing
- Inference
Kindergarten activities incorporate these scientific concepts:
Physical science
- Shapes, Sizes, and More
- Solids and Liquids
- Does the Magnet Stick?
- Wheels Do the Work
Life science
- What Plants Need
- What Animals Need
- Plant Parts
- Living Things
- People Grow and Change
Earth science
- Bodies of Water
- Seasons
- Rocks
Grade 1:
Engage your child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process.
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.
Recipient of Creative Child Magazine's 2022 Creative Play of the Year Award, Smart Start: STEM encourages little learners to use critical and creative thinking strategies to solve problems.
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
Includes answer key.
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