Story Design: Innovative STEAM Projects Grades K-8

by SparkNotes

Overview

Story Design is an exciting new student-driven, project-based interdisciplinary program that combines STEM with English Language Arts. Included are 21 project-based learning lesson plans for Grades K-8. In Story Design lessons, students …

• read and understand grade-level literature.
• identify conflicts in the literary text.
• identify a problem in the text that could have a practical, physical, or technological solution.
• design and propose a solution incorporating STEM topics.
• construct, test, and improve a prototype of their solution.
• communicate their solution to the classroom.

Here are the Story Design lessons and the books that students will read (available separately) for each lesson…

Grades K-3 Lesson Plans
Design a Sidecar, based on The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires Design a Support Structure, based on Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr.
Design a Safe Way Down, based on Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty Design Egg Protection, based on After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again by Dan Santat Design a Route, based on Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown Design a Rotor, based on Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty Design a Seed Starter, based on The Empty Pot by Demi Design a Lighting System, based on The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Grades 4-8 Lesson Plans
Design a Business Plan, based on The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies Design a Treasure Sensor, based on Holes by Louis Sachar Design a Navigation Program, based on From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Design Camouflage, based on The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Design a Surveillance System, based on Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Design an Escape Route, based on Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien Design a Communication System, based on Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Design a Detection Method, based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Design an Accessibility Modification, based on Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick Design a Steering Device, based on James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Design a Simple Machine, based on Stuart Little by E.B. White Design a Computer Program, based on The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Design a Food Storage System, based on Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733282307
Publisher:	SparkNotes
Publication date:	07/15/2019
Pages:	246
Sales rank:	204,843
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.67(d)