Building Bricks STEM St. Patrick's Day Design Challenge
This quick build challenge is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day and includes 30 task cards!
Grades: 3rd - 5th
Teaching Duration: 1 hour
lesson overview
Building Bricks STEM - 30 St. Patrick's Day Design Challenges
Get inspired by the luck of the Irish with these St. Patrick's Day Building Bricks Challenge Cards! Students will first construct their landscape (either using building bricks or paper) receiving one of the 30 challenge cards to solve a problem or add a creation to their landscape! They might need to build a castle, a boat, a four-leaf clover, and more!
This activity works well as an introduction to the engineering design process, in centers, or a Makerspace.
What's Included:
Teacher Instructions and Slides
Real-world Connection: St. Patrick's Day
STEM Career Connection: Botanist
30 editable challenge or task cards
Engineering Design Process handout
Materials needed:
Building bricks
Paper plates or building brick base plates
Construction paper (optional)
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