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Looking for Easter STEM activities that your students will love but are more than just a craft or activity to pass the time? This Easter STEM Challenge (Easter STEAM Challenge) will keep your students engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!
The basic premise:
Individually or in partners/groups, students will design and build a carriage to hold cargo and roll downhill, made primarily of carrots.
Modifications included for grades 2-8.
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Note: This version is for use with Google Slides in 1:1/paperless classrooms. If you prefer to print and have students complete work with paper/pencil, you'll want to look at the PRINTABLE VERSION instead.
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This is one of five Easter / Spring STEM Challenges. They can be purchased in a bundle at a 40% discount:
Easter / Spring DIGITAL/PAPERLESS STEM Challenge Bundle
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Resource includes:
NGSS aligned standards, Grades 2 – 8
Teacher Tips
- Links to STEM Challenge “How-to”/PD videos
- Link to a video walk-through of the challenge
- Links to STEM Challenge “How-to”/PD videos
- Materials and timing
- Criteria & Constraints (including modifications to increase difficulty for older students)
- Measuring results
- Post-design extension activities list
- Universal STEM Challenge Notes & How to Use Student Slides Post-design extension activities list
Student Slides
- Criteria & Constraints List (editable version provided)
- Design Analysis
- Discussion Questions
Extension slides
- Top 10 Reasons to Eat Your Carrots Template
- Top 10 Reasons the Easter Bunny needs a Carrot Carriage
- Estimate & Measure 1 (inches & centimeters)
- Estimate & Measure 2 (standard & non-standard with conversion table)
- Measure & Convert (customary to metric & within metric)
- Related video & website slides
- Process Flow Map
- Create Word Problems
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CLICK THE GREEN PREVIEW BUTTON UNDER THE COVER & THUMBNAILS TO SEE THE SLIDES INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE!
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Sample/suggested materials for each student or group:
(Materials you’ll need to do the activity are easily modified. )
– Large carrots (4 – 6)
– Small carrots (4 – 8)
– Peeps bunnies (1)
– Plastic eggs (1)
– Plastic or butter knife (1)
– Straws (1-2)
– Toothpicks (10 – 20)
– Brass fasteners (4 – 8)
– Scissors
– Ramp (1)
– Simple ramp will be used to test designs (e.g. textbook propped at an angle)
– Ruler (1)
– Used to measure travel distance of carriages
– Design analysis handouts (included)
– Optional:
– Cutting boards
– Rubber bands
– Balloons
– String/yarn
– Foil
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Benefits of this STEM Design Challenge:
- Focus on critical thinking, problem solving, and application of learning
- Helps students develop growth mindset traits like persistence and resilience
- High levels of student engagement
- The potential to hit upon all NGSS ETS standards depending on the depth and number of iterations you choose to implement in your classroom (modifications included)
- Highly flexible and differentiated for materials, timing, grade levels, and rigor.
Each design iteration should be planned for ~60-90 min. if you are including data gathering and analysis rather than just building for fun. If you add extension activities, you will need to adjust timing accordingly.
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Note: Comments taken from the print version.
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Please check out the preview to see the challenge, and don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions!
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