Smart Start Stem, Grade Prek - Paperback

by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (Author)

Engage your PreK child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Topics within each STEM challenge target earth, life, and physical science.

Each unit covers a specific scientific concept and includes:

• Science Story: Introduces each science concept
• Practice Activities: Support children's understanding
• STEM Story: Fictional story with a problem to solve
• STEM Challenge: Hands-on activity to solve a problem
• STEM Journal: Provides a planning outline to help complete the challenge activity

PreK STEM skills include:

• Visual discrimination
• Fine motor skills
• Comparisons
• Letter formation
• Sequencing

PreK activities incorporate scientific concepts such as: Physical science

• Shapes and sizes
• Magnets
• Floating/sinking

Life science

• Animals
• Plants
• People grow and change

Earth science

• Rocks
• Weather
• Air

The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process.

Each unit includes stories and practice pages that help children understand science concepts and provide a foundation for completing each STEM challenge. A STEM journal activity helps guide children through the engineering design process: plan, create, test, and record.

Includes answer key.

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