Winter STEM Activities
This is a set of super fun winter STEM challenges that puts your students at the center of a survival adventure! They are on a weekend trip in the mountains when a big snowstorm arrives. Now they are snowed in and must use their critical thinking and design skills to get out.
Begin by showing students the “movie trailer” (preview video) to build interest. After hearing the story of the vacation-gone-wrong, they will be presented with 5 different problems to solve by designing and building a solution.
Includes 5 separate winter STEM challenges:
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snow mover
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snowshoes
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ice fishing hut
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sled
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winter zip line
These winter themed STEM activities use common materials that you probably already have in your classroom. They incorporate concepts of linear measurement, weight, area, force and motion, properties of shapes, simple machines, and the scientific process.
The STEM projects in this pack include:
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teacher instructions
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student challenge sheet
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planning and design pages
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scoring rubric
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.
Both metric and standard (imperial) versions are included.
View the “movie trailer” preview here: Winter Survival STEM Challenge








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