Samantha Silvestri

Bring hands-on STEM learning into your classroom with this A-Z STEM Challenge Workbook Series! Students will work through alphabet-themed engineering challenges as they ask questions, collect information, imagine solutions, draw blueprints, create, test, and improve their designs. Each challenge is paired with a read aloud story and includes student workbook pages, vocabulary connections, planning space, testing questions, and reflection prompts. Perfect for an end-of-year countdown, STEM bins,

Bring hands-on STEM learning into your classroom with this A-Z STEM Challenge Workbook Series! Students will work through alphabet-themed engineering challenges as they ask questions, collect information, imagine solutions, draw blueprints, create, test, and improve their designs. Each challenge is paired with a read aloud story and includes student workbook pages, vocabulary connections, planning space, testing questions, and reflection prompts. Perfect for an end-of-year countdown, STEM bins

Objective: Design and build a carnival or arcade game using recycled materials that demonstrates one or more of Newton's laws of motion (e.g., inertia, action-reaction, or force and acceleration) and involves contact forces (push, pull, friction, normal force). Editable in Google DocsRubric attached Sample projects at end of student guided sheet

STEM CHALLENGE1. Design a basket for Little Red Riding Hood to carry treats to her Grandma’s house. 2. Design a zipline car for Little Red Riding Hood to get to Grandma’s house safely. Vocabulary, Imagine, Plan, Blueprint, Test, Reflect Editable in Google Slides

STEM CHALLENGEDesign a bed that is just right for Goldilocks. Vocabulary, Imagine, Plan, Blueprint, Test, Reflect Editable in Google Slides

STEM CHALLENGECan you create a flying machine that has landing gear, wings or a propeller? Vocabulary, Blueprints, Test & Reflect Questions Editable in Google Slides

STEM CHALLENGEDesign a rescue plan for Rapunzel from the tower. Imagine, vocabulary, blueprint, test & reflect Build Ideas: zipline, parachute, ladders Advanced: Elevator using simple machines Editable in Google Slides

STEM CHALLENGEDesign a home that the big, bad wolf can’t blown down. Imagine, Vocabulary, Blueprints, Building, Test & Reflect Build Ideas: 1. Build a house with playdough and popsicle sticks 2. Build a house with Legos Reflect on which house was stronger and why Editable in Google Slides

STEM CHALLENGEDesign a parachute for Jack to get down from the beanstalk. Imagine, Vocabulary, Blueprint, Test & Reflect Editable in Google Slides

STEM Challenge: Can you create a car that can move, has at least 2 wheels and can stand on its own? Vocabulary trace the words Draw a blueprint Test & reflect (3 questions) Editable in Google Slides

Based on Lego Education Editable Google Doc Unit: Life Hacks Lesson: Break Dance

Editable Google Doc Based on Lego Education Unit: Supplemental Lesson: Pass the Brick

Based on Lego Education Editable Google Doc 21 questions

Lego Spike App Unit: Kickstart a Business Lesson: Keep it Safe Editable in Google Slides

Lessons based on Lego Spike Education Unit: Supplementary Lesson: Pass the Brick

Lego Spike Prime Education Lesson *editable in Google Slides Lesson PlanDo Now - I can create mindsetBuilding directionsExit ticket - I can invent mindset Self-Reflection Rubric

Lego Spike Prime Education Lesson *editable in Google Slides Lesson PlanDo Now - I can create mindsetBuilding directionsExit ticket - I can invent mindset Self-Reflection Rubric

*Editable in Google Slides Fairy Tale STEM Jack & the BeanstalkThe Gingerbread Man3 Little PigsSTEM Supplies Legos,CubesPlaydoughMagnetic tiles

Engineering Design Process Challenge: Create a snow scoop designed for maximum capacity and maximum effort. *Editable in Google Docs -

Read: How to Catch a Reindeer Follow the engineering design process to create a trap for a reindeer