Monday, January 18, 2016

STEM Activities in the Classroom

My first grade class is having a blast with STEM activities. It is amazing to see the critical thinking and problem solving going on. We started working on the Building a Tower activity on Friday, so I took some pictures. We did our initial planning of the design, note taking, and built the towers. We plan to finish and display the towers on Tuesday.

It is kind of funny, because I initially thought that students would use the index cards to create their towers, but they had their own ideas. I didn't show them any pictures of student constructed projects ahead of time. I just showed them pictures of real towers.

I had asked my class to bring in a cereal or some other small box, but I only gave them a couple days notice and I didn't send home a note. Only about 7 of my students brought in boxes, but this worked out fine. I just threw in foam plates for them to use as a base for stacking.













My students used my STEM Activity - Building a Tower packet for this project. I have created others as well. I've included the links if you would like to check them out.



Build a Habitat 

Build a Vehicle

Build a Tower

Build a Robot

Build a Carnival Ride




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