Welcome back to school and 2020! I am sharing out six snowy winter STEM challenges. The holiday blues and insane cabin fever will be setting in soon, will you be ready? Hopefully these six STEM challenges will help you out. Try one each week! These are for all grades. Each link has modifications for older or younger students and extensions.
1. Snowman STRETCH - Snowman Stretch uses extremely simple materials. In fact, all you really need is a few sheets of copy paper, tape, and scissors for this one. You can always add more, but you likely already have what you need already!
2. Snow Scoop - partner activity! Lesson on levers, capacity, measuring mass and more.
3. Frozen Fortress -Area, height, weight, volume, stability.
4. Frosted Forest - heavily weighted to math and geometry, works well in partners and groups.
5. Winter Waiter- Here’s another geometry winner! This one is fantastic for cabin fever because the kids have to get up and get moving, but it is meant to be kept indoors since a lot of us are facing inclement conditions outside! If you hold on to the 3D solids, you can even have them build towers and fortresses and have paper snowball attacks, if you’re feeling adventurous!
6. Sled and Slope - Let's get creative and make our own sled.
I hope you enjoy these fun STEM Challenges. I'll be back later this month with activities based on Presidents Day and Valentines Day. Happy 2020! Don't forget to check out the contest to your right. Good luck.
