STEM & STEAM Take Home Book Bags: Submarines

Description

Reading at home can make a huge difference for your students, yet family time is just as important for young children. Take Home Book Bags allow for everyone in a household to learn together and create life-long readers out of parents and kids alike.

This book bag provides a STEM (or STEAM) challenge for families to complete as a hands-on collaboration project. It is a motivating, engaging activity that promotes higher level thinking.

This Book Bag Includes:
– sample list of books about submarines
– writing journal pages
– 3-4 journal prompts about submarines
– a STEAM/STEM submarine challenge
– a design sheet
– list of interactive family activities
– 5 different reflection sheets

I created Take Home Book Bags for my own students when I realized that I was asking my students to read at home, however, they didn’t all have access to their own books. I wanted an organized system that allowed for me to share my own books, but not lose them!

I also wanted to provide engaging activities for my students, without sending them home with more work after a busy day at school. Take Home Book Bags bring reading to life. It allows students to make connections with their books while creating memories with their families.

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What Teachers Are Saying:

▪ “A fun way to integrate learning at school and at home and to get kids sharing their school work with their parents.”

▪ “Our school is going full STEM next year and I could really use some helpful tools! I’m so pumped about this!!

▪ “I want to incorporate take home family engagement and this is perfect!”

Take Home Book Bags Can Be Used For:
✓ Reading Homework
✓ Guided Reading Groups
✓ Literature Circles
✓ STEM Classrooms

This Resource is Helpful For:
✓ General Education Teachers
Use the book bags as an alternative to reading homework.
✓ STEM & STEAM Teachers
Use the book bags as a literature connection to the STEM class or as an alternative to homework.
✓ Counselors
Use the book bags as a way to have conversations with children about their emotions.
✓ Special Education Teachers
Use these book bags as with students in small group sessions, as they are easily differentiated.
✓ Reading Teachers
Use these book bags as with individual students or in small group sessions to teach specific skills.
✓ Homeschool Families
Guide students with individual themes or authors.