Fairy Tale STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears Try a hands-on STEM challenge with Goldilocks and the Three Bears! This STEM activity is designed for lower elementary kids. I am so excited to share some details about it! STEM tales introduce the youngest budding engineers to STEM, by taking a familiar story and using it to walk through the engineering design process. Do you love telling and re-telling stories with your kids? Do you ever change the ending to spice it up a bit? That's exactly what STEM tales is all about! Integrate Literacy and STEM with Fairy Tales The 8-page book provides an alternative ending to this story. Your students need to help make a bed for Goldilocks. Goldilocks is simply a printed out figure, which you can add weigh to with either small masses, pennies, or washers. Using whatever crafting materials you have handy (index cards and tape are really all that is needed, but feel free to use other supplies as well), create a new bed for Goldilocks. The Testing Phase of the STEM Challenge Is the bed large enough? Will it hold the weight of the figure? You will be surprised at the designs your students come up with! Designing and creating a bed for Goldilocks is a way for students to bring the fairy tale alive. After you have tested out the beds, it's time to introduce the bear family to the challenge (mama, papa, and baby, who is the same size as Goldilocks). You will add heavier weights to mama and papa bear, and then test the designs again. This is a great way to demonstrate why it's important to know your design criteria before starting a STEM challenge! Mama bear may fit on some and not others, or papa bear may fit but weigh too much and collapse the bed. Get the Goldilocks Fairy Tale STEM Challenge Here is the link to the full resource. In addition to all the steps above, the 8-page story book guides students through the engineering design process and also includes a self-evaluation check list. Or pin the idea for later: How to Conduct a STEM Tale Challenge To read more about how to conduct a STEM challenge, visit this post: To see all posts in this series, click here:
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Bridges are amazing feats of engineering and a great logic challenge for your children designers. Here are some resources to help teach them more about bridges and how they work. Lesson Plans Bridge Lesson on Forces, Arch Bridges, & Truss Bridges – a detailed hands-on unit study designed for a homeschool co-op. Bridge Lesson on […]
I must admit the very first time I ever attempted a STEM lesson I was a bit nervous...but once I saw how hooked my students were I knew it was something I needed to implement more of! If you haven't heard too much about STEM, here is a quick rundown: STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics STEM lessons provide hands-on experiences for your students that involve real world problems and students LOVE to get working right away! STEM lessons are guided by the engineering design process. (see below) STEM lessons incorporate 21st thinking skills such a communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. STEM lessons allow for multiple right answers and provide an environment for students to generate creative solutions. Click here to get your copy of this poster in my TpT store! One thing you must know is that sometimes students projects will fail, and their design might not work. Students may experience some disappointment but that is also when we gain those teachable moments. When using the engineering design process in a STEM lesson, students can learn from what went wrong and make improvements to try again! So if you ready to try a STEM lesson in your classroom or looking for more STEM lessons to add to your collection I have one just in time for Earth Day (April 22nd)! This lesson focuses on the real world problem of littering. In this lesson students design mechanical grabbers to help their community become a cleaner, litter free place! Stop by my TpT Store to get your copy of this lesson. It includes a lesson plan, teacher prep instructions and and activity lab book for your students to use throughout the challenge. I hope your students love the project, just as much as my students did! They definitely were excited about Earth Day so that they could use their grabbers to help clean up our school and teach other students about recycling!
Are you looking for a STEM activity to learn more about different types of bridges, then grab some straws to design and build a weight bearing straw bridge.
How to make an indoor boomerang out of paper. What a fun boredom buster science and engineering project for kids when they are stuck inside!
28 Days of STEM Activities and STEAM Activities for Kids is loaded with hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math projects perfect for the classroom and at home. The kids are gonna love this!
If you could design a roller coaster what would it look like? This STEM activity gives kids a chance to create using simple materials.
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STEM Earthquake Challenge - students experiment on cardboard houses & different materials to create the best structure to withstand a simulated earthquake.
Five engineering challenges for kids – with wooden clothespins, binder clips, and craft sticks! It’s a simple STEM activity that kids of all ages will love. Move over, expensive building sets! These simple materials were a huge hit with my boys. The first time we got them out, Owen (almost 7) spent well over an […]
A fun and easy STEM challenge for kids. See how many pennies a straw boat can carry before it sinks in this awesome straw boats engineering challenge.
20 Free Name Activities for the First Week of Kindergarten. Check out these amazing hands-on and fun name activities! Integrates multiple skills.
Use this graphic organizer when tackling an engineering/ design challenge. The graphic organizer leads students through the design process... from identifying the question/ problem to reflecting on how to improve their design in the future. ...
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I posted this picture of the boys playing in our living room on Instagram a few days ago, and I had smattering of questions about our engineer print portraits. I aim to please, so here is a little tut
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Here's the Flying Machine STEM Challenge: Using a list of supplies, STEM teams must design and build a flying machine. Using theirknowledge of the Laws of Motion and 4 Forces of Flight, students must create ainnovative machine that applies those laws and forces. STEM teams have 3 trials to testtheir flying machines.
We’re back with another STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) series! This time it’s Summer STEAM Camp. We will be joining up with some other fabulous bloggers over the next few weeks to bring you simple STEAM projects centered around the five senses. This week’s theme is SEE. I decided to explore tessellations. A […]
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Da Vinci Popsicle Stick Bridge: Make a self supporting bridge with no mechanical fasteners or adhesives based on one of Leonardo Da Vinci's designs. You will be weaving the sticks together so that the tension between the sticks keeps the bridge together and lifts it off of the gr…
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Design and make a straw rocket and use this simple experiment to explore the trajectory of spaceships when they are launched from Earth.
Take part in a super fun STEM activity using recyclables and other basic materials in this mystery bag STEM building challenge with free printable STEM challenge cards! Kids will receive a bag of mystery items and then use those materials to complete a design challenge. This activity is perfect to do both in the classroom or at …
Fairy Tale STEM Activity for Rapunzel Rapunzel can escape the tower with a little help from your students! Materials Needed for this STEM Fairy Tale Activity cardboard tubes printable character various recyclable materials other crafting supplies (craft sticks, pipe cleaners, pompoms, etc.) Before Getting Started with the STEM Tale First your students will craft a tower. This is a fun standalone activity. You don't even have to let your kids know there will be another part to the challenge after this. Use long cardboard tubes from paper towel rolls (or tape TP rolls together). Cut out a window near the top. Decorate as desired. Washi tape is always fun for this activity! STEM tales work best if you read the original fairy tale first (or do your own storytelling!). This also leads to great discussions during the engineering process, as kids love to compare the original story with the new version. Fairy Tale STEM with the Engineering Design Process I have designed STEM tales so that as students read the story, they will follow the engineering design process. First, they need to identify the problem (Rapunzel needs to escape from the tower). Then they need to think of some ways she could get down. Allow their imaginations to soar! I have had kids think of everything from a water slide to a parachute to a zip line and even a hang glider. Design an Escape for Rapunzel After thinking of some ways Rapunzel can escape, the kids will then choose one they can build. They will plan out the materials and design, and then construct their escape route based on the plan. After the prototype is built, the kids then test it out! If something didn't work right, it's time to go back and improve the design. STEM tales are a great way to foster teamwork and problem-solving. This STEM tale usually inspires amazing creativity and excitement from the littlest engineers. To find the full resource, which includes an 8-page booklet, printable characters, check list for self-evaluation, and tips, visit this link: Pin the idea for later: To read more about how to conduct a STEM challenge, visit this post: To see all posts in this series, click here:
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Five engineering challenges for kids – with wooden clothespins, binder clips, and craft sticks! It’s a simple STEM activity that kids of all ages will love. Move over, expensive building sets! These simple materials were a huge hit with my boys. The first time we got them out, Owen (almost 7) spent well over an […]
Being presented with data after your child or student has been screened can be overwhelming, and hard to determine where to begin when sorting through all of the scores and data generated. The printable handout, created by the Speechy Musings blog, provides a clear understanding for parents and educators regarding evaluation scores, standard scores, and percentile ranks. Click on the link below to access the printable version. Click here for the printable copy!
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