4Cs Engineering STEM Story Stations With STEAM Art Projects & Activities Bundle

4Cs to 21st Century Skills focusing on Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Curiosity (bonus 5C) in your classroom or media center takes a great deal of engagement and problem-solving if we want to keep students focused and under control. Teachers often want great book titles that focus on the 5 Cs. Students need lots of examples of characters using these important skills. Makerspace task cards/ STEM challenges are perfect for community building, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration while engaging students in examples of all five skills. For more details and to see inside this resource, click the preview button.

4Cs Makerspace/STEM Challenge Task Cards give busy teachers the tools they need to build a highly engaging collaborative classroom that is inclusive for all types of learners while also allowing student choice in a maker station. All while embracing and developing important 21st-century skills.

Ideas for Use:

• STEM Centers
• STEM Activities
• STEAM Art Projects
• STEM Sub Plans
• Early Finishers
• STEM Stations
• Morning Tubs

How does this BUNDLE work?

1. Choose a focus skill from collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and curiosity.
2. Find books that focus on this skill. (Book lists are included)
3. Read book/s aloud.
4. Pose the challenge or problem from the story. (50 challenges are included)
5. Allow students to ask questions about the problem.
6. Allow students to work through the Engineering Design Model- Ask questions, imagine solutions, plan solution, create solution, test solution, revise solution, and reflect. (Think sheets are provided.)
7. Celebrate thinking and learning!

Makerspace Story Stations focus on design thinking and allow students to work through the Engineering Design Process without taking up a ton of space.

⭐️ What's Included:

• 10 Communication Open-Ended Makerspace/STEM Challenges focused on 10 stories using simple materials
• 10 Collaboration Open-Ended Makerspace/STEM Challenges focused on 10 stories using simple materials
• 10 Creativity Open-Ended Makerspace/STEM Challenges focused on 10 stories using simple materials
• 10 Critical Thinking Open-Ended Makerspace/STEM Challenges focused on 10 stories using simple materials
• 10 Curiosity Open-Ended Makerspace/STEM Challenges focused on 10 stories using simple materials
• Lesson plans for Makerspace Stations
• Makerspace Resources
• Engineering Design Process Think Sheets
• Digital Version on Google Slides
• 5 Digital Choice Board with links to stories read aloud on YouTube
• Directions for Digital Use

Books Featured: (Not Included)

Communication

• The Amazing Bone by William Steig
• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
• The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter
• Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
• Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin
• The Day Saida Arrived by Susana Gomez Redondo & Sonja Wimmer
• Dear Juno by Soyung Pak
• Dear Primo, a Letter to My Cousin by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Dear MR. Blueberry by Simon James
• Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters From Obedience School by Mark Teague

Curiosity

• Questions Asked by Jostein Gaarder and Akin Duzakin
• The Looking Book by PK Hallinan
• Ask Me by Bernard Waber
• The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
• Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
• Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems by Carey Sookocheff
• Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum
• What If by Samantha Berger
• Questions, Questions by Marcus Pfister
• Wilford Gordon McDonald Patridge by Mem Fox

Creativity

• I’m Not Just a Scribble by Diane Alber
• Noticing by Kobi Yamada
• Art & Max by David Wiesner
• My Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray
• The Empty Pot by Demi
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
• Boxitects by Kim Smith
• Fraidyzoo by Thyra Heder
• Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
• The Fantastic Bureau of Imagination by Brad Montague

Critical Thinking

• The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates
• The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon by Matthew Buress
• Doctor De Soto by William Steig
• Can I Play Too by Mo Willems
• Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty
• If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen
• Have Fun Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
• Mechanimals by Chris Tougas
• If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen
• If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen

Collaboration

• The Circles All Around Us by Brad Montague
• We Move Together by Kelly Fritsch
• We're Better Together: A Book About Community by Eileen Spinelli
• We Are Better Together by Bill McKibben
• What We'll Build by Oliver Jeffers
• Hey Wall by Susan Verde
• Thank You, Omu! by Obe Mora
• Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell
• Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
• Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth

Enjoy some beautiful titles and some thought-provoking challenges! Your kids will love them.

XO

Trina