STEM BOX – PRIMARY:Â YEARS 3 – 6
Our STEM Boxes contain a range of curriculum aligned activity cards and a teacher resource book to ease lesson planning and support enquiry-based learning.
What does the box include?
- Â 120 laminated student cards:
- 20 different investigations organised into five themes
- Six copies of each card (printable versions as well)
- Â A comprehensive full Teacher Resource Book with full online access.
- Â STEM Box Years 3-4
- Â STEM Box Years 5-6
Tick every box with STEM Investigations:
- Â Easy to use
- Â Expert authors
- Â Supports classroom differentiation
- Â Curriculum aligned
- Â Highest quality
- Â Extremely good value
- For Middle and Upper Primary
Teacher’s Components
Resource Book and Digital Resources provide:
- Â STEM implementation support
- Â Links to useful resources including videos, learning objectives, apps and websites
- Â Detailed curriculum links
- Â Support to utilise the Design Thinking process
- Â Suggested pacing schedule
- Â Assessment resources such as rubrics and self-assessment
- Â Reproducibles
The Design Thinking process:
- Â Made famous by Stanford University Design School
- Â Guides students through the stages required to produce an end product
-  Stage 1 – empathise with and find different points of view
-  Stage 2 – define the issue
-  Stage 3 – ideate by generating lots of ideas
-  Stage 4 – create a prototype
-  Stage 5 – test their design.
Student Cards
STEM Investigations are organised into five themes:
-  Built World –machines, building designs, town planning and transportation.
-  Managed World – human-made systems, communities and manufacturing.
-  Natural World – animal and plant life cycles, adaptations, geological changes, extreme events and chemical science.
-  Sustainable World – finite resources, human interactions with the natural world and sustainability.
Features:
- Â Each investigation card presents a real life situation
- Â Guided enquiry approach
- Â Every card requires the application of STEM
- Â Ability to work individually, in pairs or in groups.
How it works:
- Â The challenge outlines key scientific learning and questions to consider
- Â Key understandings identify curriculum links
- Â Key vocabulary lists terms and definitions that are important for the investigation
- Â Key actions give an overview of the task
- Â Design thinking stages explores relevant thinking
- Â The big picture provides a snippet of information to spark student interest.