STEM Scientists - A Biography and an Engineering Challenge

It is so important for students to learn about different scientists.  Students often have a vision of a scentist in their head as an old man with white hair in a lab coat.  

There are so many different scientists in the world and they are from many different places.  These STEM packs gives students an opportunity to learn about some different scientists while they work through different STEM engineering challenges.

I include these STEM challenges as we are working through different topics in science.

While learning about fossils, we do this challenge and we learn about Mary Anning.  Students use a sheet of bones and try to construct a dinosaur.  They have to defend their choices, much like scientists do.  Buy this pack here.

We also connect these with our literature units.  While we read The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, we also learn about Dian Fossey and construct our own life-sized mountain gorillas.  Check out this pack here.

There are other STEM Scientist packs in my store!  You can browse through all of them in my tpt store, just go to my store and search for "STEM Scientists".