Has cabin fever struck your classroom? The Winter Waiter 3D Solids STEM Challenge might just be the antidote! It incorporates science, technology, engineering, and math along with a friendly competitive indoor relay race that your students will love. Premise In Winter Waiter, students work in small groups against a criteria/constraints list to build waiters’ trays […]
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Last week, I shared with you how vital the post-build activities are to getting all goodness from your STEM Challenges. If you’re going to devote the time, you may as well get every last drop of value, right?! In addition to the gallery walk, present/demo, Q&A, and individual design analysis, I find the group discussion
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Time constraints sometimes cause us to short-change the rich post-build activities: presentation, Q&A, discussion, and design analysis, but don’t do it! Taking the time to let students discuss and analyze their designs is absolutely crucial to developing skills and making meaning of the whole process. In this video, I’ll take you through the steps I
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Do you consider yourself a beginner, experienced, or an advanced teacher in implementing STEM Challenges? Watch to see where you are in your journey and what to add to your bag of tricks to level up your game! Or if you prefer to read & reflect, I’ve included the video transcription directly below it. If
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