Makerspace STEM: Earth Day STEM Activities Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Read Aloud
Celebrate Earth Day and boost engagement with this fun, interactive Makerspace trash robot activity about environmental care (reduce, reuse, recycle). It includes close reading activities such as questions, vocabulary, main idea, and more, as well as a Makerspace STEM extension where students create their own robots out of trash!
Makerspace in early elementary is filled with projects, designs, and ideas that inspire, motivate, and challenge children in the classroom or library. This makerspace moment in literature takes an informative book about reducing, reusing, and recycling and allows students to capture the main idea and key details of the informational text told in children's literature. Students will also take a closer look at the author's purpose. This book is also the perfect segway for creating a model that reuses and recycles trash. Your kids will use critical thinking skills and problem-solving strategies to create trash robots.
MakerSpace Moments in Literature combines literature with creative engineering design projects. Students respond to the text with close read activities as well as develop ideas to solve problems from the story. MakerSpace Moments in Literature are perfect for the elementary classroom or the library/media center.
MakerSpace Activity: STEAM takes the E for engineering and the A for arts from STEAM and you get Maker Space Moments in Literature. Makerspace Moments In Literature allow you to do a focused Close Reading with text as well as extend on a piece of literature with the same function and creativity of a Makerspace using engineering tools to problem solve and create. A Makerspace is a collaborative area where students can think, create, share, and grow using an assortment of materials and technologies.
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Comprehension Questions
Comprehension Bookmarks
Asking Answering Questions Work
Vocabulary Cards- Can be used as a fun game of Headbanz or Charades or to display
Vocabulary Work
Main Idea Work
Author's Purpose
Connections Across Informational Text
Engineering Maker Activity
Examples of a Solution - trash robots
Optional Challenge Card
Planning and Creating Sheet for Trash Robot Activity
Reflecting and Improving For All About My Trash Robot (for writing extension)
My Trash Robot Presentation Points
Compare and Contrast Trash Robots
Standards Covered
Asking and Answering Questions
Vocabulary
Central Message/Main Idea
Author's PurposeCompare and Contrast
Connections in Text
Engineering K-2 standards (From Next Gen. Science Standards)
Listening and Speaking
Writing
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