Science, technology, engineering, art and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM based lessons! The CTP STEAM Design Challenges Resource Book includes a year’s worth of STEAM based lesson plans will teach your students critical skills in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. With curriculum standards included for each lesson, effortlessly plan and execute lessons for your 5th grade class.  This book includes a year's worth of teacher lesson plans, STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors, easy-to-follow lesson and classroom-tested lessons. The STEAM design challenges in this book follow engineering practices to teach students in grade 5 to solve a problem by designing, creating and justifying their designs. Promote critical, analytical and reflective thinking by facilitating students with solving real life problems when designing, creating and justifying their own designs. They also allow art to support and enhance the learning of science and math while the engineering process is followed. These engaging STEAM lessons: integrate the next generation science standards and national standards from other disciplines, enhance learning across various disciplines, facilitate students in collaborating to solve real-world scenarios, promote critical thinking, analytical thinking and reflective thinking, and these are classroom tested. Effortlessly combine the STEAM curriculum with national standards from all other academic disciplines by using our structured lesson plans. It features 152 pages of lessons by authors Michelle Powers, Teri Barenborg, Tari Sexton and Lauren Monroe.