The Name Jar Activity Name Tag Stamp Craft STEM Challenge

The Name Jar Activity is perfect for teacher self-awareness to your students!

In this Social Emotional Learning STEM Lesson, students learn about the importance of Self-Awareness. They design, build, and test their own stamp that reflects their identity. Students discover how to cope with nervousness, develop gratitude, and have their own unique identity.

They build their own name jar to share positive names for others.

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 Name Jar

This STEM Project is a companion activity to The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi.

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
• pipe cleaners
• wikki stix
• crayons, markers, and/or colored pencils
• The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi (Recommended)

Includes:

• Teacher Instructions
• Student STEM Journal
• Student Instructions
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Read Aloud STEM Activity
• Vocabulary Words (Nervousness, Gratitude, Identity)
• Gratitude Reflection
• Name Jar Maker Activity
• Mindful Moments Strategy, Activity, and Writing Reflection

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