Fall & Halloween STEM Challenges Activity Bundle
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Grade Levels
2nd - 8th, Homeschool
Subjects
Standards
CCSS7.RP.A.3
CCSS7.RP.A.2
CCSS7.RP.A.1
CCSS6.RP.A.3
CCSS6.RP.A.2
Resource Type
Formats Included
- ZipΒ (34 pages)
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Description
Start the year with our most popular fall STEM challenges! These STEM activities are great for back to school, celebrating the fall season, and connecting to Halloween and Thanksgiving themes!
5 Halloween Themed Engineering Challenges
- Spider Parachute Halloween Engineering Challenge: Design a parachute to save a spider! This is a fun Halloween STEM activity that your students will love with a version for distance learning!
- Haunted House Paper Circuit Halloween STEM Activity: Whatβs more spooktackular than a haunted house? One that your students make while learning the basics of circuits! β£Includes 4 paper circuit templates and a design challenge.
- Robot Hand Candy Grabber Engineering Challenge: Design a grabber to pick up Halloween candy while also learning about human anatomy and biomedical engineering. Includes handouts for distance learning!
- Candy Grabber Engineering Challenge: Students will work in teams to design and build a device that uses the power of levers to pick up candy from a distance. After completing the project, use the provided handout to discuss the real-world STEM career as a prosthetist.
- Rescue the Witch Engineering Challenge: A storyline is provided to add the "next chapter" to the book "Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson, although reading the book is not required. Your students will be excited to work in teams to rescue the kind witch!
5 Fall or Thanksgiving Themed Engineering Challenges
- Fall Pumpkin Catapult - Math & Engineering Activity (Angles and Ratios): Looking for a pumpkin chunkin catapult challenge? Look no further with this fall or Halloween themed STEM catapult activity!
- Pumpkin Volcano Shelter Engineering Challenge: This engaging, student-driven activity includes an optional simulated volcanic eruption, to test the students' shelter designs, using baking soda, vinegar, dish soap and a pumpkin. This makes for an exciting and educational experience they will remember!
- Harvest Moon Science: First, learn about the phases of the moon using a handout designed to illustrate the moon phases using Oreos. Then discover the natural phenomenon of the "Harvest Moon" that occurs near the autumn equinox. The included handouts detail fascinating facts and instructions for exploring how the atmosphere gives the harvest moon its colored glow!
- Thankful for STEM Activity Sheet: Perfect for a warm-up or as an introduction to a STEM activity, this worksheet is a thought provoking student activity. Students are asked to describe what they are thankful for in each STEM category. This is a great addition to your lessons during Thanksgiving season!
- Thanksgiving Turkey Nest Engineering Challenge: Students will practice the Engineering Design Process with this hands-on STEM challenge building a turkey nest to safely catch a falling egg. A fun twist on the classic egg-drop challenge, this activity is an exciting way to foster critical thinking and team building skills!
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About STEM Challenges: Click here to learn more about the 3 Stages of STEM. SEM challenges are an engaging way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or after school program! These hands-on activities allow students to work in teams, apply the engineering design process, and connect science topics to real-world applications. The teacher will provide the structure to the project, but students will take an active role in designing and building their own device.
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Total Pages
34 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Standards
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CCSS7.RP.A.3
Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.
CCSS7.RP.A.2
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
CCSS7.RP.A.1
Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units. For example, if a person walks 1/2 mile in each 1/4 hour, compute the unit rate as the complex fraction Β½/ΒΌ miles per hour, equivalently 2 miles per hour.
CCSS6.RP.A.3
Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
CCSS6.RP.A.2
Understand the concept of a unit rate π’/π£ associated with a ratio π’:π£ with π£ β 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, βThis recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.β βWe paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.β
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