Fall for Autumn ELA focused STEM 3D Printing Project Google

Description

ELA Teachers would love to incorporate STEM into their classrooms, but projects are hard to find! This is a perfect STEM project for ELA teachers! Reading, Writing and Nature! This project helps ELA teachers incorporate a reading passage and poem about autumn as well as comprehension questions. This project incorporates a paired passage! Students will then create a sensory poem as well as a 3D printing project!

Page 2-4: Allows students to learn a little bit about why leaves change colors and why trees lose their leaves in the fall. I have also provided a poem as well. This would be perfect for a paired passage. You could always get a picture book to set the stage for students. There are quite a few picture books that allow kids to hear about fall or autumn. GOOGLE READY!

Page 5-10: This is a comprehension quick check. There are questions about the expository text as well as the poem. I have also included paired passage questions too. There is also an answer key. GOOGLE READY!

Page 11-14: Nature Walk and Poem Response- Students will go on a nature walk and collect sensory observations. Students will collect their observations on page 7. You may need to help students to use their imagination about what fall/autumn taste and smell like. This could be caramel apples, pumpkin pie etc.

Students are asked to pick up a fall leaf to bring back to the classroom. This is super important- students need to pick leaves that are not so dried up that they break easily. They need to be able to create a leaf rubbing of the leaf when they get back to class.

Page 15-16: 3D Printing activity- Google Ready- This slide show leads students to create their own plastic version of the leaf that they picked up from their nature walk. The project uses Tinkercad.

•You do not have to have your kids use the 3D printing activity. You could have them produce their leaf just by using the leaf rubbing. The way students produce their leaf is completely up to you. The 3D Printing is just an option. You may even want to offer this choice as a differentiation option.