STEM: Engaging Hands-On Challenges Using Everyday Materials Grade 4

Provide students with grade-level appropriate challenges guaranteed to spark imagination as they ask, imagine, plan, create, test, and improve. In each challenge, students will be making sense of phenomena and/or designing solutions to a problem as they build a clearer understanding of science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts. Each challenge is scaffolded from an engaging, and usually active, Introduction to the student-driven Mini Challenge, culminating in the Main Challenge where students put what they have learned to the test. Criteria are established for each challenge—but not an expected end result. A