Eat Pete Self Management SEL STEM Activity

Integrate STEM, SEL, and Literacy in your classroom with a perfect STEM challenge to connect to Eat Pete! by Michael Rex!

In this STEM Lesson, students learn about the importance of Self Management. They design, build, and test their own car ramp and test how height and steepness relate to how far their car travels.

Students also discover how to calm down and used patience using different self management techniques using the mindful moments strategy, activity, and writing prompt. A few posters are included for your classroom calm down space.

CASEL Framework: Self Management

This activity is a part of a series of STEM resources designed to follow the CASEL Framework for social emotional Learning.

The abilities to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations. 
This includes the capacities to delay gratification, manage stress, and feel motivation and agency to accomplish personal and collective goals.

Such as:

• Managing one’s emotions
• Identifying and using stress management strategies
• Exhibiting self-discipline and self-motivation
• Setting personal and collective goals
• Using planning and organizational skills
• Showing the courage to take initiative
• Demonstrating personal and collective agency

Connect to a Read Aloud: Eat Pete!

This STEM Project is a companion activity to Eat Pete! by Michael Rex.

The Engineering Design Process:

Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. They follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve.

Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educational environment in their classroom! This is perfect as a beginning of the year activity or end of the year STEM challenge!

Material List:

• Cardboard or Cardstock
• Tape
• Scissors
• Toy Car (you may hold this back until testing)
• Snap Cubes
• Rulers (Younger students will measure with Snap Cubes.)
• Eat Pete! by Michael Rex (Recommended)

Includes:

• Teacher Instructions
• Student STEM Journal
• Student Instructions
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Calm Down Posters
• Read Aloud STEM Activity
• Vocabulary Words (Patience, Compromise, Steep)
• 1, 2, 3 Compromise Activity
• Mindful Moments Strategy, Activity, and Writing Reflection