Grades K-5 Home STEM Kits

Grades K-5 STEM Home Kits Resources

The second week of February, schools should have received K-5 STEM home kits for students. These kits should be sent home with students to ensure they have materials to support STEM/STEAM instruction. Below, you will find resources and lessons to support STEM/STEAM learning in your classrooms! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Beth Milewski ekenney2@bostonpublicschools.org or Molly Peters mrovenko@bostonpublicschools.org

Materials in Kits

Grade 2

Item Qty

Medium Glue Stick 1

Pencil Sharpener 1

Copy paper sheets 30

Dry Erase Marker 4

2nd Grade Book 1

Clothes Pins 5

Cotton Balls 10

Popsicle Sticks 10

Rubber Bands 10

Foam Craft Sheets 3

Pipe Cleaners 6

Modeling Clay 1

Aluminum Container 2

Coffee Filters 10

Vegetable Seed - pack 1

Food Storage Bags. 4

Grades 3-5

Item Qty

Binder Clips 4

Cotton ball 4

Popsicle sticks 50

Rubber bands 20

Scissors 1

Foam Craft Sheets. 4

Pipe Cleaners 25

Playdough 1

Coffee Filters 1

Ziplock Bag 1

Syringe 2

Wheels 4

Dowel rods 10

Aluminum Container. 1

Vegetable Seed - pack. 1

Lessons and Resources

The Lessons and resources below are project based learning tasks, that can be implemented by a classroom teacher or specialist, where a product can be created using materials from the STEM kits. These materials can be reused multiple times. We encourage you to have students take pictures of their projects if remote to share with the class or to create Flipgrid videos presenting their projects and their learning.

Challenges & Lessons

Each of the lessons below is set up to be implemented over the course of a week. You will find resources, accommodations for students, and standards connections. Click on the Lesson to view details.

Grade 3: Challenge: Can you build something to help prevent Global Warming flooding in Boston? Lesson

Grade 4: Challenge: Can you build a model that shows how increased precipitation leads to greater soil erosion? Lesson

Grade 5: Challenge: Can you design a mechanism that can filter water without heating it up? Lesson

Grade 3/5: Challenge: Can you build a system to irrigate plants? Lesson

MORE CHALLENGES COMING SOON........

Defined Learning

To access Defined Learning, go to www.definedlearning.com To login, sign in with your BPS Google Account or through Clever. Click on the links to review the tasks. If you need support on how to use Defined Learning, go to the teacher resources page to review the Introduction Video

Grade 2:

Reptile Land Curator (Task: Create a Habitat)

Safety & Design: Building a New Town (Task: Model)

Grade 3:

Being a Scientist (Task: Investigation & Data Display)

Carnival Game Designer (Task: Prototype)

Grade 4:

Green Housing (Task, Diagram & Model)

Erosion Management Specialist (Task: Demonstration)

Grade 5:

Botanist: Creating a Vertical Garden (Task: Vertical Garden Prototype)

Structural Engineer: Bridges (Task: Model a Truss bridge)