Thanksgiving STEM Challenge Design a Mayflower Sailing Ship Using Wind Power
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This is a growing collection of easy to implement STEM challenges for upper elementary and middle school aged students. All of these challenges include:background informationstudent directionstips for teachers with suggestions and extensionsa student response worksheeta scoring rubricforce copy linkPrice $33.50Original Price $67.00Save $33.50
This bundle includes 6 holiday themed STEM challenges including Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas (winter), Saint Valentine's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, and Easter. Challenges include: Design a Spider Web (Halloween)Design a Sailing Ship (Thanksgiving - provides background information about the MayPrice $12.43Original Price $17.75Save $5.32
Description
For this STEM Challenge, students must design and test a sailing ship in a tub of water. The objective is to deliver a marshmallow passenger safely to the other side using a handheld fan as wind. This activity includes:
- teacher directions, discussion questions, and extension activities
- 3 slides of background information about sailboats
- 4 slides setting up the challenge with student directions and photos
- a student response worksheet
- a scoring rubric
- a force copy link to a digital Google Slides version
This is the perfect STEM challenge to complete around Thanksgiving as you learn about the voyage of the Mayflower and the Plymouth colony. It also works well as part of a unit on wind power and renewable energy.
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Credits: Background photo by Julia Volk, photo on pages 3 by Gerhard G, and photo on page 4 by Implacable 18, all were used with permission. All other photos are by Shea LaFountaine of LaFountaine of Knowledge. The border on page 10 was created by Chirp Graphics and used with permission. Fonts used include: Amatic SC by Vernon Adams and Coming Soon by Open Window. Fonts used with permission under open source licenses.
