Description
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
- Connect words and pictures
- Fine motor skills
- Letter formation
- Visual discrimination
- Word meaning
- Sequencing
- Inference
- Comprehension
Physical science
- Solids, Liquids, Gas
- Parts Work Together
- Making Sound
- Living Things Have Parts
- What Do Animals Eat?
- Animals and Their Babies
- 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.
About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.