Smart Start: STEM, PreK Workbook

Smart Start: STEM, PreK WorkbookBy: Evan Moor Educational Publishers Series: Smart Start: STEM 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

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

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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