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.
 
PreK STEM skills include:
Visual discrimination
Fine motor skills
Comparisons
Letter formation
Sequencing
PreK activities incorporate scientific concepts such as:
 
Physical science
Shapes and sizes
Magnets
Floating/sinking
Life science
Animals
Plants
People grow and change
Earth science
Rocks
Weather
Air
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!

Introducing kids to the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is the goal of the STEM program, which has already become a huge part of curriculums across public and private school systems.

Get your preschoolers prepared early with the Smart Start: STEM Pre-K activity book from Evan-Moor. This easy-to-follow program introduces three- and four-year-olds to problem solving with engaging and challenging activities, fun stories, and journal writing that fosters creative and critical thinking skills. Parents are an essential part of this STEM education activity book that focuses on earth, life, and physical science topics.