The most wonderful time of the year calls for winter STEM activities! Here are my top 15 favorite winter STEM activities! Winter STEM Activity 1: Snowman Stretch DescriptionBuild the tallest snowman from paper – or change it up and build for max volume or surface area. Feeling really wild? Build the tallest inverted snowman. (See […]
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If you’re like me, Groundhog Day isn’t much of a holiday! It’s always just seemed silly without substance to me. Now I don’t mean to brag or overstate, but this Groundhog Day STEM challenge changes everything! I’ve found LOTS of ways to make Groundhog Day worth your instructional minutes, for (at least) grades 2 –
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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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Mid-January already? Time just flies by, doesn’t it? I am happy to share another winter STEM challenge with you this week: Frosted Forest. This one is heavily weighted toward math, so I think of it as more of a STEM Challenge! If it’s not winter where you live, feel free to call this Triangle Tree.
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Winter Break goes by too fast, doesn’t it?! By now, you’re either already back in school or getting pretty close. I hope your break was restful, joyful, and rejuvenating! Because I don’t want the rest of your winter to feel long & dark, I’m creating a couple of new challenges to keep the enthusiasm for
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By now, I hope you’re home enjoying a well-earned Winter Break! Maybe you’re sipping on some hot chocolate, looking for some engaging ways to get your kids thinking deeply when you return to school. Keep this winter STEM activity in your back pocket! Wait for one of those tough days when you and your students
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You are almost to Christmas/Winter Break, or maybe you’re visiting after break and looking for a way to ease those late winter blues! This snowman STEM activity is perfect if you’re looking for very low-prep and very simple materials. In fact, all you really need is a few sheets of copy paper, tape, and scissors
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You are almost to Winter Break and this winter STEM activity is just what you need to solve every teacher’s dilemma during this time of year–how can you have fun and enjoy the holidays without wasting instructional time? STEM Challenges … the answer is always STEM Challenges!! Premise of Sleigh/Sled & Slope In Sleigh/Sled &
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As the holiday break inches ever closer, keeping students engaged in academic work can be an uphill battle! Engaging winter or Christmas classroom activities like this December STEM challenge are the perfect way to get kids excited to work collaboratively in deep critical thinking and problem solving! This week’s December STEM challenge is one of
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Congratulations, teachers! You are almost to a beautiful, well-deserved Christmas/Winter break, but getting to that finish line can be its own impossible challenge! The kids’ brains are toast, and (likely) so is yours! But because you are a responsible adult, you don’t want to throw in the towel too early and risk wasting instructional time,
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