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.   
 
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
Includes answer key.
 
 
Kindergarten STEM skills include:
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
Life science
What Plants Need
What Animals Need
Plant Parts
Living Things
People Grow and Change
Earth science
Bodies of Water
Seasons
Rocks
Use Smart Start: STEM for enrichment at home and help your child develop lifelong critical thinking skills.

See Smart Start: Read and Write books for colorful reading and writing activities that will help your child become a reader!

Science, technology, engineering, and math are cool! That is the goal of STEM education—getting students interested in these areas of study instead of becoming shy or anxious.

With the Smart Start: STEM kindergarten activity book from Evan-Moor, kindergarteners get introduced to these vital concepts early through fun, engaging stories, activities, and journal writing challenges they complete with their parents. Kids gain an understanding of intriguing life, earth, and physical science topics while learning critical and creative problem solving-skills. Because these skills are important in other academic areas, this Smart Start: STEM activity book is a helpful stepping stone for young learners.