Evan-Moor Smart Start STEM. Grades Pre K-Grade 1
Engage your child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. 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.
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
Includes answer key. Click on view details to choose grade level