STEM Task Cards - Winter: Building Icebreakers
These building Icebreakers are great for distance learning and include 24 STEM activity task cards using common materials centered around a winter theme.
STEM quick builds are ideal for introductory STEM activities, STEM stations, back to school icebreakers, distance learning games, or the introduction of a new theme or concept. This packet includes options for a classroom activity or through distance learning with Google Slide, Flipgrid, and printed take-home options.
Grades: PreK - 8th
Teaching Duration: 30 minutes
STEM Task Cards - Winter Edition!
These building Icebreakers are great for distance learning and include 24 STEM activity task cards using common materials centered around a winter theme.
STEM quick builds are ideal for introductory STEM activities, STEM stations, back to school icebreakers, distance learning games, or the introduction of a new theme or concept. This packet includes options for a classroom activity or through distance learning with Google Slide, Flipgrid, and printed take-home options.
BACKGROUND
Before tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM.
The STEM quick build challenges in this packet are intended to promote problem-solving and creativity skills. Unlike Stage 2 challenges where students use the full engineering design process to plan and test designs, these activities are short warm-ups to more complex design challenges. Students will have a short time frame to quickly gather materials and find a creative solution for the challenge prompt.
Product includes:
Activity Instructions: Learn how to use task cards for a classroom activity, station rotation, or for distance learning (both live and independent assignment).
Editable Task Cards & Student Journals: All task cards and student journals are editable in Google Slides.
Digital & Printed Versions: Multiple versions are provided for use in a classroom or with Google Classroom, Seesaw, Flipgrid, and take-home packets.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
Students can use common art supplies or recycled materials for the builds. During a distance learning challenge, ask students to be creative and use any materials available in their home. In the classroom, teachers may provide bins of specific materials with task cards.
Examples of common materials:
Paper: newspaper, paper, copy paper
Index cards
Paper or plastic cups
Toilet paper rolls
Plastic bottles
Craft sticks
Rubber bands
Pipecleaners
Paperclips
Straws
Examples of classroom material kits:
