Makerspace STEM: What's the Matter Mr. Whiskers READ ALOUD Activity

Solids, liquids, and gases experiments and activities can take on a whole new experience for kids when you use excellent trade books. This Matter Makerspace/STEM challenge goes along with What's The Matter In Mr. Whisker's Room?

Your students will interact with the text by asking and answering questions, working with science content vocabulary, main idea and supporting details, and text features in informational and fiction text. The children will also plan, design and create, reflect, and improve upon solutions for floating or sinking and recognizing how smaller pieces make up a whole in a building challenge.

This Makerspace Moment in STEM uses What's The Matter In Mr. Whisker's Room written by Micaheal Elsohn BOOK NOT INCLUDED. What's the Matter In Mr. Whisker's Room is an adorable book that uses literature to capture nonfiction information about matter. Book is available on Amazon and link is provided.

⭐️⭐️ Included In This Product:

⭐️ Comprehension Questions

⭐️ Comprehension Bookmarks

⭐️ Asking and Answering Questions Practice in Nonfiction Text

⭐️ Vocabulary Cards- Can be used as a fun game of Headbanz or Charades or to display

⭐️ Vocabulary Practice

⭐️ Main Idea and key details- 2 choices

⭐️ Text Features

⭐️ Engineering Maker Activity

⭐️ Choice of 2 challenges- one on creating a building and the other on creating a boat that floats

⭐️ Planning Sheet for challenges

⭐️ All About My Solution (for writing extension)

⭐️ Words About My Solution

⭐️ My Solution Presentation Points

⭐️ Compare and Contrast Solution Think Sheet

⭐️ Standards Covered

✓ Asking and Answering Questions

✓ Vocabulary

✓ Main Idea/Key Details

✓ Text Features

✓ Engineering K-2 standards (From Next Gen. Science Standards)

✓ Adjectives

✓ Listening and Speaking

✓ Writing

⭐️ Next Generation Science Standards Covered:

Boat Challenge- Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose- (to float). {2-PS1-2}

Building Structure Challenge- Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces an be disassembled and made into a new object. {2-PS1-1-2.}