6 fairy tale STEM ideas that encourage problem-solving that you can easily implement with preschoolers using common household items.
Grow a beautiful crystal gingerbread man ornament for a fun Christmas science experiment with our Christmas growing crystals activity.
Looking for Gingerbread Man STEM Activities to do in your classroom? Look no further! These STEM Activities will have your students actively engaged!
This STEM resource goes with the story "How to Catch A Gingerbread Man" by Adam Wallace. Students will go through the STEM process to create a trap for a Gingerbread Man! This product includes: science standards alignment for K-2 directions, materials, and rules (black and white and color options available) STEM journal: The journal has different page options, so choose the ones that are the best fit for your kids! Pages include materials, design, team design, prediction, procedures, redesign ***NEWLY UPDATED to include: half page versions of the STEM journal if you're looking to save paper EDITABLE directions, materials, rules
Need a science activity for a gingerbread man unit? Try this STEM bridge building challenge! Gingerbread man science lesson STEM bridge building challenge Set your children this design challenge inspired by The Gingerbread Man story. Materials needed: :: Bridge Building Design sheet from the Gingerbread Unit :: pencil :: scissors :: loose parts […]
This post contains affiliate links of products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. If you want to bring Christmas into your classroom, but without Santa Claus, the Gingerbread Man is a great alternative. There are so many concepts to teach or incorporate into a gingerbread unit. Here's the layout of my gingerbread unit for
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Gingerbread Man Activities and STEM Challenges Do you love the holidays but aren't sure how to bring a learning experience into a fun topic? One way to celebrate the season is with all things gingerbread! Even though I have a soft spot in my heart for the jolly bearded fella, I know it's not always easy to use certain themes in the classroom. Do you have fond childhood memories of books where you got to choose what happened? I know I do. I would go back and read through all the possible endings just to make sure I got the best one (admit it, you did too). I was thinking how FUN and ENGAGING it would be to alter a classic tale and let students choose how it unfolds? This STEM adventure starts with the story of the gingerbread man and turns it into a Pick the Path STEMventure activity. The gingerbread man meets a fox...will he survive? That depends on your students' choices (**spoiler alert** - the gingerbread man always survives, but they won't know that while choosing their adventure): In this short storybook, the gingerbread man may need a zip line transport across a canyon, or he could need a tent for the night to stay alive. Here is a gingerbread man crossing a river to get away from the fox: When the story is complete there are even a couple of bonus STEM challenges to complete. The gingerbread man finds himself among more gingerbread people and is so excited to have finally found a safe place where he won't be eaten. The gingerbread people decide they want to pursue the circus life. What gingerbread man wouldn't want to get launched from a catapult or slingshot? Move over, Cirque du Soleil... The easy to follow booklet includes the engineering design process. All your students have to do is follow the story, fill in the pages for the challenges they pick, and continue on with the story. This is even a great activity to send home over winter break if you know families will get involved. Click the image below to go directly to the resource on Teachers pay Teachers (or on my site here): Pin these ideas for later: I need more gingerbread it my life. Read on, my friend. My teacher friend Amy and I were chatting about all things gingerbread. Do you know Amy? Her forte is social studies and writing.You are going to LOVE these gingerbread resources she put together. You can head over to her blog, Teaching Ideas 4U, to find out more about them. Two I know you'll love are this non-fiction gingerbread book report and this writing resource for character development: It wouldn't be a gingerbread post without some recipe links! Here are some to try out, depending on what floats your boat. Do you like cookies? To build gingerbread houses? Do you like your gingerbread spicy, crunchy, or chewy? Gingerbread Recipe Links Genius Kitchen Gingerbread Cookies King Arthur Flour Gingerbread Cookies Eileen's Spicy Gingerbread Men Recipe Spiced Gingerbread Cookies Gingerbread House Recipe
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Looking for Gingerbread Man STEM Activities to do in your classroom? Look no further! These STEM Activities will have your students actively engaged!
I just love the holiday season with little ones at home. Every year we make a gingerbread house together, and yes I totally buy the store bought kit, because frankly no one is eating that thing anyways, right?…Well except for handfuls of candy while decorating of course 🙂 This week was full of all kinds […]
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Integrate STEM in the classroom! Perfect storybook STEM Challenge for kids!
Introduce early STEM concepts with this familiar fairy tale! Kids experiment with heat transfer, investigate size and measurement to construct a ���just-right��� chair, and build a burglar alarm. Includes 2-page tale.
Build a bridge for the gingerbread man! This December STEM challenge is perfect for any gingerbread week in kindergarten or 1st grade!
This STEM STEAM Challenge helps kindergarten and first grade kids use the engineer design process to build a boat for the Gingerbread Man.
A photo booth is a fun way to incorporate 100th day of school activities into your classroom. Celebrate the 100th day of school with this photo booth.
Collection of fun World Book Day activity ideas and World Book Day Science Experiments. Includes Roald Dahl, Gruffalo, Alice in Wonderland
Young children are naturally curious about science and how things work. Cultivate this curiosity by using favorite nursery rhymes and stories to introduce early STEM concepts.Children explore how to keep Humpty Dumpty from breaking after a fall, design a system for Jack and Jill to bring the water down the hill, help the Gingerbread Man cross the river, design sturdy homes for the Three Little Pigs, build a wolf-proof fence for Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, and more.Each story comes with three STEM activities and recording sheets.
Build a bridge for the gingerbread man! This December STEM challenge is perfect for any gingerbread week in kindergarten or 1st grade!
As an educator, we love when can use or create a lesson that is interdisciplinary. That’s definitely an educational buzz word! I love when I am able to incorporate literature into our STEM program. I find it to be the best way to introduce problem solving using STEM to the younger elementary students. The story […]
Thank you or checking out my holiday STEM resource. These activities require VERY LOW PREP and utilize common materials and supplies around the classroom. A few activities are differentiated to allow for varied levels of challenge. There are 5 STEM projects included 1. Candy Cane Bridge 2. Rudolph Races 3. Candy Christmas Tree 4. Gingerbread man Disguise 5. Pick Up the Cup It comes from a HUGE holiday literacy, math and STEM bundle for grades 3-5. Math, Literacy and STEM bundle Please take the time to provide feedback. TPT provides you a credit towards future purchases for your feedback on paid products. Be sure to follow my store Planet Doiron Thank you! keywords: stem, steam, gingerbread man, holiday, December, Christmas, season, winter, projects, art, science, activities, centers, candy canes, snowman, snow, reindeer
These gingerbread STEM activities are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second-grade engineers working together or alone in centers this Christmas. A great addition to your unit on gingerbread this December. This resource uses the engineering design process to solve problems all winter. You...
Gingerbread Man Trap - STEM Activity For this hands-on project, students will make an elf trap while following each step of the Engineering Design Process! This is a great group work project. Contents include... How to Catch the Gingerbread Man Writing Activities Challenge Poster Student Rubric Brainstorming Organizer Foldable Gingerbread Girls & Boys 2 Engineering Design Process Posters Student organizers for each step of the design process Written Reflection Activity Engineering Design Process Flip Book Engineering Design Process Worksheet The flip book and worksheets included can be used for different format options; use what works best for your students! They can also be used for other STEM/engineering activities :) The traps can be built using any classroom materials that you have on hand!
As a coordinator or STEM projects, I have started incorporating Growth Mindset lessons together with STEM with great results. Click the PREVIEW button above to see more! Why Pair STEM with GROWTH MINDSET? Why is teaching them BOTH together so important? Students with a positive growth mindset are much more likely to take chances, think outside the box, and persevere when their first ideas don't quite work out as planned. This is ESSENTIAL for STEM study and one of the main goals of exploring STEM. Don't Miss the BUNDLE This set is part of a larger Bundle 1 and also part of the Full Year Mega Bundle. You can take a quick look at the significant savings you'll benefit from when choosing the bundles, and read about how other teachers have been using this in their classrooms! STEM Mega Bundle for the Entire Year (Bundle 1 and 2 together) WHAT'S INCLUDED? There are 4 steps in each Fairy Tale set. 1 - A Fairy Tale partner play to read aloud. Students decide which characters have a growth mindset and which have a fixed mindset. 2 - A Growth Mindset Workbook (see thumbnail and preview) 3- Each story sets up a simple STEM challenge. Students use the materials you provide to create different things to "help" the characters from the story. 4- A STEM Workbook, which guides students through the STEM process of brainstorming, improving and reflecting on the engineering process. WHAT KIND OF SUPPLIES WILL I NEED? You can use any supplies you have for the STEM projects - just toss them into bins and you're ready to go. Some suggestions are: tape, craft sticks, glue, foil, straws, string, wire or pipe cleaners, small paper cups, elastic bands, plastic spoons, etc. WHERE CAN I GET MORE GROWTH MINDSET If you are looking for more Growth Mindset ideas for your classroom, you may like the Growth Mindset Classroom BUNDLE MORE GROWTH MINDSET in Social Emotional Learning Curriculum You can explore Growth Mindset more deeply with Unit 2 of the Social Emotional Curriculum (Kindness Classroom Program). This huge set has teacher scripts to guide you through over 100 pages of lessons, printables, posters and more! Click below to see the whole year set, and choose UNIT 2: Click HERE to take a quick look at the SEL Growth Mindset Units! I appreciate your feedback! I hope you enjoy these activities as much as my students did. If you have any questions or comments please email me directly at [email protected] Looking for more interactive educational products? You can find everything over at Whimsy Workshop Teaching Blog Just click on the drop down menus to find what you're looking for. All links come right back to TPT. Or stay and read about classroom tips and grab a few free resources. Happy Teaching! ♥ Susanna Whimsy Workshop Teaching Be sure to follow Whimsy Workshop on Facebook! to be notified of new products and reduced prices. To receive email notifications from TPT about temporary discounts on my new product listings, just click the “FOLLOW” button at the top of THIS PAGE (near the green star). You can receive exclusive free content in my newsletters and receive an instant gift! It's a Giant Never-ending Sight Words Game Board! Just Click HERE to see the instant download!
Unplugged Coding with the Gingerbread Man includes 3 levels of printable directional coding challenges, perfect for Hour of Code, sub plans, or early finishers: Simple maze: Students follow 3 conditional statements and draw a path through the maze) Intermediate maze: Students follow the rules of 4 conditional statements and code a path of their choice through the maze. Challenging maze: Students follow the 4 rules with multiple steps and code the longest path they can through the maze, avoiding an infinite loop where they might get stuck forever! Binary Puzzles 2 decoding puzzles (students use the key to decode a message). 1 mystery picture activity (students shade the grid based on the binary bytes). Bonus Activities Create your own binary mystery picture! Create your OWN coding maze! You or your students can design and create a maze using the components included. Instructions on how to complete are included. This is a cut and paste activity. Answer keys are provided with possible solutions. When to Use Unplugged Coding Unplugged coding is a great activity for your sub tub, for a coding club, for indoor recess, or for Family STEM night! It is also the perfect activity for Computer Science week or Hour of Code.
Help! The Gingerbread Man needs to cross the river, but if he swims he will fall apart and if he rides on the fox he will get eaten! Can you help him cross the river?? Have students design and build a bridge or boat to help the Gingerbread Man cross the river safely! Use this as two separate STEM c...
Using favorite read aloud books is a great way to create fun and hands-on activities to challenge your students' thinking and develop problem-solving skills. After reading or listening to The Gingerbread Man, your students will be ready to use critical thinking skills to build and create while working on the challenge. The pre-challenge thinking stems will help spark your students’ interest and curiosity while activating schema. This Remote Learning STEM challenge has been designed for students to use common materials found around their home, including the recycling bin. This packet contains a zip file with 3 pdf files. One file is the full packet, the other two files are smaller variations that can be embedded into a power point or other electronic visual presentation and pages that can be printed and completed by the student for those districts requiring documentation of learning. All files are pdf documents. Be sure to check out my other Distance Learning STEM Challenges: Distance Learning: I Am Not a Chair STEM Challenge Distance Learning: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus STEM Challenge Distance Learning: Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Challenge
Integrate STEM in your classroom this Christmas Season with Gingerbread Man Trap STEM Challenge! Students discover how to catch a Gingerbread Man as they design and build a their very own Gingerbread Man Trap! Increase problem solving and engineering skills through this engaging Christmas STEM challenge. An excellent companion activity to the book Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. After the Gingerbread Trap is complete, students write an opinion piece on if the escaped gingerbread man should be punished or not. Aligns with the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). Includes: Teacher Instructions Student Instructions Student Planning Pages Gingerbread Trap STEM Journal Opinion Writing Activity Common Core and NGSS Standards TpT Digital Version for Distance Learning with Google Classroom Digital Activity: To use Easel for Distance Learning, select "Open in Easel" on this listing. Works with computers, laptops, chromebooks, ipads, and tablets. Materials Needed String Tape Glue Cardboard (cereal box or shoe box) Construction Paper Scissors Small Gingerbread Man (optional) Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett (optional)
This fun Gingerbread literacy unit focuses on story elements, retelling, and compare/contrast. Plus an engaging STEM challenge!
These Christmas activities for kids include Christmas printables and super cute and easy paper plate crafts for the holidays.
As an educator, we love when can use or create a lesson that is interdisciplinary. That’s definitely an educational buzz word! I love when I am able to incorporate literature into our STEM program. I find it to be the best way to introduce problem solving using STEM to the younger elementary students. The story […]
Build a bridge for the gingerbread man! This December STEM challenge is perfect for any gingerbread week in kindergarten or 1st grade!
I just recently created this Engineering Challenge FREEBIE! My kids will be doing this one after Thanksgiving Break and I will be sure to post pics of their designs! I hope you can use it in your classroom, too! Click here for this freebie! Happy holidays and happy engineering to you!
Need a science activity for a gingerbread man unit? Try this STEM bridge building challenge! Gingerbread man science lesson STEM bridge building challenge Set your children this design challenge inspired by The Gingerbread Man story. Materials needed: :: Bridge Building Design sheet from the Gingerbread Unit :: pencil :: scissors :: loose parts […]
Gingerbread Man Activities and STEM Challenges Do you love the holidays but aren't sure how to bring a learning experience into a fun topic? One way to celebrate the season is with all things gingerbread! Even though I have a soft spot in my heart for the jolly bearded fella, I know it's not always easy to use certain themes in the classroom. Do you have fond childhood memories of books where you got to choose what happened? I know I do. I would go back and read through all the possible endings just to make sure I got the best one (admit it, you did too). I was thinking how FUN and ENGAGING it would be to alter a classic tale and let students choose how it unfolds? This STEM adventure starts with the story of the gingerbread man and turns it into a Pick the Path STEMventure activity. The gingerbread man meets a fox...will he survive? That depends on your students' choices (**spoiler alert** - the gingerbread man always survives, but they won't know that while choosing their adventure): In this short storybook, the gingerbread man may need a zip line transport across a canyon, or he could need a tent for the night to stay alive. Here is a gingerbread man crossing a river to get away from the fox: When the story is complete there are even a couple of bonus STEM challenges to complete. The gingerbread man finds himself among more gingerbread people and is so excited to have finally found a safe place where he won't be eaten. The gingerbread people decide they want to pursue the circus life. What gingerbread man wouldn't want to get launched from a catapult or slingshot? Move over, Cirque du Soleil... The easy to follow booklet includes the engineering design process. All your students have to do is follow the story, fill in the pages for the challenges they pick, and continue on with the story. This is even a great activity to send home over winter break if you know families will get involved. Click the image below to go directly to the resource on Teachers pay Teachers (or on my site here): Pin these ideas for later: I need more gingerbread it my life. Read on, my friend. My teacher friend Amy and I were chatting about all things gingerbread. Do you know Amy? Her forte is social studies and writing.You are going to LOVE these gingerbread resources she put together. You can head over to her blog, Teaching Ideas 4U, to find out more about them. Two I know you'll love are this non-fiction gingerbread book report and this writing resource for character development: It wouldn't be a gingerbread post without some recipe links! Here are some to try out, depending on what floats your boat. Do you like cookies? To build gingerbread houses? Do you like your gingerbread spicy, crunchy, or chewy? Gingerbread Recipe Links Genius Kitchen Gingerbread Cookies King Arthur Flour Gingerbread Cookies Eileen's Spicy Gingerbread Men Recipe Spiced Gingerbread Cookies Gingerbread House Recipe
This week we've been reading a favourite winter time story! The children love the adventures the Gingerbread Man has as he runs away from the different characters in the story. They are always so sad at the end when he is eaten by the fox! Today I challenged them to retell the story and help the Gingerbread Man outsmart the bakers, cow, goat, cat and fox by using a coding game. This activity helped the children to strengthen their retell as they recalled the story and sequenced the events of the story, and encouraged them to practise their coding skills, specifically oral language related to directionality and number. We used a small stuffed Gingerbread Man, photos of the different characters from the text, our coding board (sensory table lid with tape), and directional coding cards. First the children placed the different characters on the coding board in order that they are introduced in the text. After determining the starting and ending location for the Gingerbread Man, the children gave each other oral directions to help move the character around the obstacles in order to avoid them. It was a great way to practice counting, directions, and giving and receiving directions while recalling the events of the story! Success! In order to make the next attempt more difficult, we added additional obstacles from the story including a barn, pond, haystacks, and a forest. The Gingerbread Man would need to maneuver around these obstacles as well as avoiding the many characters that wanted to eat him! The children loved this challenge and worked together to successfully guide the Gingerbread Man! They had some interesting ways of moving him around the grid and were eager to create very challenging obstacles for their friends to work around! Tomorrow we are going to design and build our own Gingerbread Man traps to help us catch that sneaky guy!
Are you looking to keep your students engaged before Christmas holidays? These Gingerbread Man themed STEM challenges will do the trick! They will learn about the engineering design process as they fill out their STEM challenge pages to research, brainstorm, plan, create, improve and reflect on each challenge. Students use Science, Technology, Engineering and Math to complete four challenges related to The Gingerbread Man stories. Each of the four STEM challenges comes with: Challenge prompt Question & Research page Brainstorming page Planning page Creation & Improvements page Creation After Improvements & Reflection page Also included: Instructions Material ideas list Gingerbread themed Engineering Design Process Posters Ask Research Brainstorm Plan Create Test Improve _______________________________________________________________________ Please consider leaving feedback for this product! It means so much to me, and it helps you earn FREE products! For every review you leave, you earn credit points toward future purchases. Go to "My Purchases" to leave a review & thank you in advance! If you hit the green FOLLOW ME button, you will get: Updates when new products are released All new products on sale for the first 24 hours! Notification when I have a sale Connect with me: Check out my blog for more on learning & growing with me! Visit my Blog For the latest Learn Grow Blossom ideas: Follow me on Pinterest or Instagram Questions? Email me at [email protected]
Oh No! The Gingerbread Man is on the loose again! Build a trap to catch him before he gets away againHelp catch the Gingerbread Man once and for all in this engaging STEM challenge that builds off of the classic story. This hands-on STEM challenge gets students designing, constructing, and testing like real engineers! Trap requirements add an extra challenge, while still allowing for plenty of open-ended creativity. Once the designing is done, the Group Awards will help you recognize students who went above and beyond in their design elements, teamwork, and neatness. Students will design and build a Gingerbread Man trap using materials you already have in your classroom! (My personal favorites are legos, dominoes, popsicle sticks, and other math manipulatives.) Then, students will need to create "bait" to place inside their trap to catch that speedy cookie. *2 versions of the planning sheet are included for differentiation* CONTENTS: - How To Use page for teachers - Related Curriculum Standards for Grades K-2 - Scenario page for students - 2 Versions of the student planning sheet - Printable Gingerbread Men - Group Awards
This is a fun STEM activity. The object is to build a trap to catch the Gingerbread Man incorporating The Engineering Design Process. Then the students will write a How To about their traps and create a gingerbread man craftivity for their final draft. This includes: Teacher directions Student directions The Engineering Design Process Page Graphic Organizers to help organize the students thinking and work Choice of 2 different gingerbreads to decorate and trap A How To writing graphic organizer List of transition words Final draft paper Templates to create a gingerbread man to add to the students final work.
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This fun Gingerbread literacy unit focuses on story elements, retelling, and compare/contrast. Plus an engaging STEM challenge!
