Smart Start: STEM, Kindergarten Workbook

Smart Start: STEM, Kindergarten WorkbookBy: Evan Moor Educational Publishers Series: Smart Start: STEM Engage your Grade K child in fun hands on projects that develop problem solving and critical thinking skills. 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

Engage your Grade K child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

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

• 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

• What Plants Need
• What Animals Need
• Plant Parts
• Living Things
• People Grow and Change

• Bodies of Water
• Seasons
• Rocks

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.

Includes answer key.

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