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St. Patrick’s Day STEM Challenge Bundle Paperless Version

March 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment

St. Patrick's Day Activities

Students work in partners or groups against criteria & constraints lists to design and build St. Patrick’s Day themed objects. Modification suggestions are included to make these challenges engaging and productive for students in grades 2 – 8.

Groundhog Day STEM Challenge

January 16, 2018 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Groundhog Day, Late Winter, Winter

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 challenge changes everything! I’ve found LOTS of ways to make Groundhog Day worth your instructional minutes, for (at least) grades 2 – 8! The materials […]

Black History Month STEM Challenge: Functional Furniture

January 1, 2018 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Black History Month, Late Winter

This challenge was created as a way to celebrate Black History and/or Women’s History Month in science class. The premise is inspired by Sarah E. Goode’s 1885 invention of the folding cabinet bed. She was one of the first African-American women to obtain a patent for her invention. (Note: Several source cite Goode as the […]

A Few of My Favorite Things

December 6, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Uncategorized

Christmas is coming, hooray! Since this season is a time of sharing, I thought it would be fun to share a few of my favorite things for the classroom. In fact, I think it would be extra fun to give one away every day for five days starting December 15! If you’ve ever seen one […]

Winter STEM Challenge: Winter Waiter

November 26, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Late Winter, Winter

This STEM Challenge is the perfect antidote to cabin fever! In groups, students will design waiter’s trays to hold “snowy” 3D solids that they’ll test in a winter-themed, indoor relay race.

Has cabin fever struck your classroom? The Winter Waiter STEM Challenge might just be the antidote! In groups, students will design waiter’s trays to hold “snowy” 3D solids that they’ll test in a winter-themed, indoor relay race!   Materials You don’t need everything you see here. Feel free to substitute or eliminate what you don’t […]

8 Post-Build Discussion Questions for STEM Challenges

November 14, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Uncategorized

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 […]

Pros and Cons of STEM Challenge Budgets

October 26, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Uncategorized

STEM Challenge student materials budgets are very popular, but should they be?

I just know a lot of you will disagree with me, but I am not a fan of STEM Challenge budgets for student materials in most cases. I am always happy to engage in friendly, healthy debate though! Watch the video below or read the transcript to see my take on it, then let me […]

Speak, Listen, Draw: An Activity to Improve Communication & Use Academic Vocabulary

October 17, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Uncategorized

This activity is a great to tool to practice oral and written communication skills as well as reinforce math vocabulary, estimation, and measurement skills. Students will describe relative size and position of various shapes, lines, and angles [triangle (right, acute, obtuse, scalene, equilateral, isosceles), square, rectangle, parallelogram, hexagon, pentagon, octagon, circle, oval, parallel lines, intersecting lines, perpendicular lines, etc.] Though students don't strictly need to use this vocabulary to succeed, it certainly helps!

This activity is a great to tool to practice oral and written communication skills as well as reinforce math vocabulary, estimation, and measurement skills.  Originally, I created this resource as a way to help students be more thorough and clear in their process writing. I was specifically interested in helping them recount their process for […]

Create-ure STEM Challenge

October 12, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Halloween, Planetopia Project, Spring

Creature STEM STEAM Challenge

If you’re looking to apply learning in adaptations, habitats, food chains and food webs, life cycles, genetics & heredity, evolution, and/or human body systems, this STEM / STEAM challenge is a student-favorite way to get the job done joyfully!     The Basics In this STEM/STEAM Challenge students will design a “create-ure” that has never […]

Student Planning Methods for STEM Challenges

September 20, 2017 by feelgoodteaching Filed Under: Uncategorized

It’s easy to get into a routine, and sometimes routines turn into ruts in our classrooms!  Because our students have different learning styles, skills, and talents, we should try to honor that as often as possible in as many ways as possible.  One area we can add to our repertoire is the planning step of […]

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