Bear Exploration Center
Magnet Curriculum
2024-2025
5th Grade: Miss. Gaddis
Faster! Higher! Farther! Collaborative STEM Project
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Standards
Grade Level -5th
Content Area- Science
Standard: 5.4
ALCOS- Science (Investigate whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances (e.g., mixing of baking soda and vinegar resulting in the formation of a new substance, gas; mixing of sand and water resulting in no new substance being formed).
Objective/Overview
Objective:
Students can explain the cause and effect relationships of substances when combining two or more substances.
Project Overview:
Students were grouped together, and as a group they decided if they wanted to create the inner-sole or the outer-sole of a shoe. In this STEM project, students investigated the properties of materials used in a shoe design by focusing on the creation of in-soles and outer-soles and using slime to create their prototype. They were given the task that they were a shoe designing company that was created shoes based on the basketball players/team criteria such as shoe's comfort, support, grip, bounce, and flexibility.
Project Rubric
Project Guidelines
Students were to complete the following STEM workbook pages to help them create their slime for their inner or outer shoe sole creation.