Engage your Grade 1 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

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

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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