The Bad Seed Self Awareness SEL STEM Activity

Integrate STEM, SEL, and Literacy in your classroom!

In this STEM Lesson, students learn about the importance of Self-Awareness. They design, build, and test a seed home for the bad seed and learn about Empathy, Reputation, and Growth Mindset through mindful moments.

CASEL Framework: Self Awareness

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

Self-Awareness includes the abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior across contexts.

Through this resource students begin to understand capacities to recognize one’s strengths and limitations with a well-grounded sense of confidence and purpose.

Connect to a Read Aloud: The Bad Seed

This STEM Project is a companion activity to The Bad Seed by John Jory.

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
• tape
• scissors
• colored paper (construction or printer paper)
• seed cutouts (included)
• crayons, markers, and/or colored pencils
• binder clips
• The Bad Seed by John Jory (Recommended)

Includes:

• Teacher Instructions
• Student STEM Journal
• Student Instructions
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Read Aloud STEM Activity
• Seed Hunt Activity
• Vocabulary Words (Reputation, Empathy, Growth Mindset)
• Mindful Moments Strategy, Activity, and Writing Reflection
• Growth Mindset Writing Activity