Smart Start: STEM, Grade PreK

Description

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.