In the last St. Patrick’s Day activity STEM challenge, Guard the Gold, the students helped a leprechaun protect his gold from treasure hunters. In this St. Patrick’s Day activity, Get the Gold, the students are now the treasure hunters! This St. Patrick’s Day activity STEM challenge is tons of fun, and you’ll love the cooperative […]
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For leprechauns, life is a constant struggle to protect their pot of gold from treasure hunting thieves and keep from getting caught themselves! This St. Patrick’s Day activity STEM challenge takes a look at a leprechaun’s struggle to guard his gold! Premise In this challenging and engaging St. Patrick’s Day activity, students work against a criteria
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This St. Patrick’s Day activity is a leprechaun trap STEM challenge classic almost as old as time, so I’ve added a twist and a few extensions to keep it fresh! Premise of Leprechaun Trap STEM Challenge Working against a criteria & constraints list, and armed with a Leprechaun Lore List, students create a design to
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Let’s face it, most kids immediately trash their Valentine’s Day cards once they strip them of candy and stickers. Why not put those cards to good use before they get recycled? In comes a Valentine’s Day cards STEM activity! Maybe you work with older students who don’t do a card exchange. In this case, you
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The Flower Frenzy STEM Challenge Activity is actually four challenges in one and works well for spring, Valentine’s Day, Easter, or Mother’s Day! Premise In Flower Frenzy, students create a bouquet of flowers with unique attributes within four mini challenges: Floating Flowers, Functional Flowers, Fluff & Flatten Flowers, and Firmly Fixed Flowers. (If alliteration is
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This candy box Valentine’s Day STEM challenge is simple on the outside, but oh so sweet on the inside! The best part is that you can add in so many math activities to extend. Just think of all the math that goes into creating products for retail: price, margin, tax, shipping & delivery costs, fitting
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Do you remember Frosted Forest? “Heavy” Hearts is a Valentine’s Day STEM challenge that shares a few similarities; consider them cousins! This paper heart STEM challenge is heavy on math and has a very wide range of difficulty level options available. One of the best parts — you probably already have all the materials you
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Valentine’s Day just feels too soon after winter break to have another class party; am I right?! Valentine’s Day STEM Challenges, like this bow and arrow STEM activity, are the perfect alternative! Teachers tell me all the time that they use them this way and their kids love it! So you can still embrace the
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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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