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

• Comparisons
• Letter formation
• Fine motor skills
• Cause and effect
• Visual discrimination
• Sequencing
• Inference

Kindergarten activities incorporate these scientific concepts:

Physical science

• Shapes, Sizes, and More
• Solids and Liquids
• Does the Magnet Stick?
• Wheels Do the Work

• What Plants Need
• What Animals Need
• Plant Parts
• Living Things
• People Grow and Change

• Bodies of Water
• Seasons
• Rocks

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.

About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.