AROUND THE WORLD STEM & STEAM CHALLENGES Countries Culture Group Work Earth Day

Have fun and encourage critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving with these 6 Countries Around the World STEM Challenges! Included are SIX STEM/STEAM Challenges with a brief challenge description, supplies needed, supply limits, criteria to “win” the challenge, testing directions, and time limit. Supplements to do challenges are also included (list of countries, suggested website links, parent supply letter, judging sheet, supply “order form”.)

What’s Included

1.Meteor Attack Challenge (aka Reverse Egg Drop): Design a “landing pad” for meteors (eggs) to land safely

2.Meteor Attack-Meteor Bucks Edition: Design a “landing pad” for meteors (eggs) to safely land BUT you only have 100 Meteor Bucks to buy supplies!

3.Trash to Treasure Country Parade Float: Create a mini parade float to represent your selected country using “trash”

4.Beautiful World Scavenger Hunt: Go outside and find items in our “beautiful world”!

5.Scavenger Hunt Poster Contest: Use items found in the scavenger hunt to create a poster about your selected

6.Scavenger Hunt Self Portrait: Use items found in the scavenger hunt to create a picture of you

7.Materials Order Form for Meteor Attack Meteor Bucks Challenge

8.List of countries

9.Suggested website links page (separate file to load to LMS)

10.Judging sheet for Parade Float Challenge

11.Parent Supply Letter for Parade Float Challenge

Ways to Use These Country STEM & STEAM Challenges:

•Thematic days: Earth Day, Around the World Celebration Day, or culture unit!

•Pick and choose which challenges you want to do...or do them all!

•Set up stations around your room.

•Early finisher station

•Rotate from room to room to complete one challenge in each room.

•Do one activity each day for a week.

•Do activities as a whole class.

•History, World Geography, ELA, or Enrichment/Gifted class

•This Country Research Report, It’s a Small World Party, or Earth Day in ELA, can be added to this product to extend it.

•Build community

•Encourage critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving

•Engage all students

•Use with any age

•Limited supplies needed

•Bring FUN to your classroom!

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Check out the Informational Writing section of the Megan Memories store for these related resources:

• Descriptive Writing Mini-Lessons
• Key Words Mini-Lessons
• Organizing Your Writing Mini-Lesson
• Revising & Editing Your Writing Mini-Lessons
• Text Structures Mini-Lessons
• Quoting, Summarizing, Paraphrasing Mini-Lesson
• Transition Words & Phrases Mini-Lesson
• How to Research Mini-Lesson
• Countries Research Report
• Countries Research Presentation
• Countries Research Project
• Countries One Day Research Sheets
• It’s a Small World Presentation Party
• Around the World Day

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