Building Bricks STEM Winter Engineering Design Challenge
Your students are earth scientists on a mission to study Antarctica. They will first construct their winter wonderland (either using building bricks or paper). They might need to save a polar bear stuck on an iceberg or build a home for walruses!
Grades: 1st - 6th
Teaching Duration: 1 hour
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lesson overview
30 Winter Building Challenges!
Your students are earth scientists on a mission to study Antarctica. They will first construct their winter wonderland (either using building bricks or paper). Then, students will receive one of the 30 challenge cards to solve a problem or add a creation to their landscape. They might need to save a polar bear stuck on an iceberg or build a home for walruses!
This activity works well as an introduction to the engineering design process, in centers, or a makerspace.
What's Included:
Teacher Instructions
Real-world connection: background on how polar bears are losing their homes
STEM career connection: earth scientists.
30 challenge or task cards in two sizes (2 in x 4 in and 4 in x 6 in)
Engineering design process handout
Materials needed:
Building bricks
Paper plates or building brick base plates
Construction paper (optional)
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