STEAMStart Grade 2 Units 1-5: Engineering Ideas Into Action

By Jeannie S. Ruiz

About the Series:

STEAMStart: A Year of Hands-On Discovery brings STEM to life for early learners through imaginative, standards-aligned projects that integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math.

Each grade-level book offers 10 complete units that blend storytelling, exploration, and design challenges to spark curiosity and build foundational STEM fluency.STEAMStart is a long-range project with short-term modules and single day activities. STEAMStart builds from the simple need to construct a "home" to the very complex structures required to bridge a river. STEAMStart presents "literacy components, cross-cutting standards and authentic assessment with math at every turn and corner (as well as edge and vertex). Outcomes require patience to design reasonable solutions to real-world problems. In the process, students use core skills in aesthetically beautiful project-based learning. Fabrication requires the development of a logical sequence and network: build spatial awareness; use math skills in real world challenges; develop problem-solving tools; increase manual dexterity and attention to detail.

Take second graders from ideas to innovation with STEAMStart Grade 2: Engineering Ideas into Action. Through a full year of hands-on projects, students learn to think like engineers - identifying problems, planning solutions, building prototypes, and improving their designs.

This standards-aligned curriculum connects math, science, and art through real-world engineering challenges. With 10 complete units, it helps teachers build curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking while strengthening foundational academic skills.

What is the format of these STEAM explorations?

ENGAGE: Each activity uses a read-aloud book to jumpstart the investigation and engage students.

EXPLORE: Get students up and moving to activate that extremely useful muscle memory.

EXPLAIN: Each activity includes a brief background for the purpose of introducing the subject matter and guiding discussion about the explorations.

EXTEND: Although each of the 5 units containing a total of 25 investigations is written to stand alone, together they also build the knowledge required to meet a long-range project culminating in an overall challenge.

ELA Build skills in communication, writing and speaking.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942357273
• ISBN13: 9781942357278
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Publishing Futures
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"