Teacher Created Resources® Story Engineering: Problem-Solving Short Stories Using STEM, Grade 5-6

Integrate engineering and literacy into your curriculum with this innovative approach to learning. Students will read fictional passages and solve problems using STEM and the engineering design process. Students can create devices and solutions using everyday materials. Each unit focuses on one problem and one challenge, but other problems are presented as options for future challenges. The activity pages invite individual and group work with room for brainstorming, problem-solving, building, testing, and reflecting. The book includes 12 units, which each include a teacher overview and lesson plan, one original fiction passage with room in margins for annotations, and STEM activity sheets based on a single STEM problem/challenge. 112 pages.