STEM Challenges Bundle: Pioneer, Desert Island, Arctic Circle STEM Activities
Challenge your students’ problem-solving skills with this collection of 15 fun and exciting STEM activities!
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STEM Challenges for Kids Bundle
STEM activities are a great way to integrate math and science into meaningful, hands-on learning! This bundle of STEM challenges for kids includes 3 themed-packs, each with its own engaging storyline. Students will help a stranded sailor escape a desert island, a group of explorers stuck in the Arctic, and a pioneer family brave the wild west. Each challenge solves a problem faced by the characters in the story. Exciting and fun!
Includes the following resources:
These include a total of 15 different challenges:
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Water Filter
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Cabin Construction
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Tower Building
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Solar Water Heater
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Rock Mover (pulleys)
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Ice Shelter
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Floating Raft
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Waterproof Container
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Insulating Blanket
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Snowball Shooter
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Parachute Design
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Hut Building
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Bridge Building
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Coconut Catapult
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Tower Design
Each STEM challenge includes teacher instructions, student challenge sheet, planning and design pages, and scoring rubrics. There is a set of team member role cards, design process cards, a master score sheet to find out which group is the most successful at helping the explorers, and associated NGSS standards.
These STEM challenges for kids use common materials that you probably already have in your classroom. They incorporate concepts of linear measurement, area, force and motion, energy, simple machines, data, and scientific process.
All 15 activities are provided in both standard and metric versions.
Additional information
| Grade Level | 4th, 5th, 6th |
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| Pages | 240 |
| Resource Type | Activity |
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How long does each challenge take to complete?
This somewhat depends on the age of your students. I have found that the older students spend more time brainstorming and really planning their designs. They are also more careful when building and testing. Each challenge includes reading part of the storyline. This may take 5 minutes or 15, depending on whether your students engage in conversation about it. Then students will need to brainstorm, plan, and collect their materials. The actual building and testing portion of the challenges usually takes about an hour. If you want your students to go back and make improvements to their designs, that will add more time. Overall, I would plan on using two class periods to complete each challenge from start to finish.
Why don’t you list specific quantities for each material?
It is important to remember that STEM is a process that requires brainstorming, hypothesizing, planning, designing, and testing. If you tell students how much to use of certain items, they will use exactly that much. This completely defeats the purpose of STEM and turns it into doing a craft. We want students to think about what would work best to meet their goal. When you tell them exactly what to use and how much, you’re doing the thinking for them. You can certainly limit how much students can take of each material. The challenges are very flexible. They include a list of suggested materials and note which ones are actually required. You can eliminate, limit, or add any other materials you like.
Will this item be shipped to me?
No. This item is a printable/digital product will be downloaded to your computer. You may print it as many times as you like, at home or work. It can also be sent to a printing service like Staples or Office Depot, or uploaded to your school’s print center.
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