Flying Hearts Valentine's Day Catapult STEM Challenge (Angles and Ratios)
This STEM catapult challenge involves engineering, geometry, ratios, critical thinking, and teamwork in an engaging Valentine's Day themed activity your students will love!
Grades: 3rd - 9th; Homeschool
Teaching Duration: 90 minutes
“I have done this activity two years in a row now and my students absolutely love it!! Some of the catapults my students have created are truly impressive! Thanks so much!”
lesson overview
** Note: This activity is the same as our STEM catapult challenge and Pumpkin Chunkin' products, only centered around a Valentine's Day theme**
Product updated to include Digital STEM journals to support distance learning.
This STEM catapult challenge involves engineering, geometry, ratios, critical thinking, and teamwork in an engaging Valentine's Day themed activity your students will love! Using the engineering design process along with math skills, teams of students will build two catapult designs from common materials. Each team will then test at three stations: Distance, Accuracy, and Power. Included are follow-up math problems for enhanced learning. One of my favorite STEM activities!
Included in this product:
Teachers guide with links to resources and photos
Editable instruction teacher slides with videos, science background, trivia, and design challenge steps to support classroom or distance learning instruction
Student catapult design sheet
Student recording sheet for each station
Math connection problems including angles, ratios, and averages, and graphing
