Looking for Easter/spring activities that your students will love but are more than just a craft or activity to pass the time? These Easter/spring STEM Challenges (or STEAM Challenges) will keep your students engaged in brain-busting work disguised as fun!

The basic premise:
Students work in partners or groups against criteria & constraints lists to design and build Easter/spring themed objects. Modification suggestions are included to make these challenges engaging and productive for students in grades 2 – 8.

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There are five STEM design challenge events included in this bundle:

• Carrot Carriage
• Nice Nest
• Egg-hanced
• Bean Bind
• Basket Bounce

This bundle saves you 40% off the cost of buying each challenge separately. What a bargain! ☺

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Materials you’ll need to do the activity are easily modified. Materials lists can be found in the product descriptions for each individual challenge linked above.

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Resource includes:

• Overall STEM Tips
– Suggestions on timing and whether or not to treat these challenges as competitions
– What to say (and what not to say) during STEM Challenges
– 5-event Data Tracker handout

Plus, each challenge comes with:

• NGSS aligned standards, Grades 2 – 8

• Teacher Tips
– Links to STEM Challenge “How-to” Videos
– Links to challenge-specific video walk-throughs
– Materials and timing
– Criteria & Constraints (including modifications to increase difficulty for older students)
– Measuring results
– Post-design extension activities list

• Student Slides
– Criteria and Constraints list (editable version provided)
– Results and Design Data Analysis
– Discussion Questions

• Extension Slides
– Process Flow Map
– Math Extension
– Additional handouts vary by challenge

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Benefits of these STEM Design Challenges:
– 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: You can save even more by purchasing this bundle as part of the
STEM CHALLENGE YEAR-ROUND MEGA-BUNDLE!!!

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What do teachers have to say about this resource?
(Reviews taken from the TpT Store)“LOVE your STEM activities! They are always great! Can’t wait to use these with my students! Thank you for your hard work!”“Great resource – very detailed and easy to use.”

“I love the feedback sheets for the students.”

“Fun! Thanks for creating this. Our group of 3rd and 4th graders loved it!”

“We had such fun with these activities! I teach 5th-8th grade Engineering by Design and they love all the activities of yours that I have purchased. I have some phenomenal pictures of all the activities if you tell me where to send them. Thanks, again for all your challenges! I will see if you have any more that I have NOT purchased yet! Thanks!”

 

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