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Design a Windmill Spring STEM Challenge

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Grade Levels
1st - 5th, Homeschool
Resource Type
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Pages
10 pages
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Description

Integrate STEM in your classroom!

Get your students pumped up for spring and STEM! Design an amazing windmill with rotating blades! Excellent for Earth Day or for introducing students to Green Energy.


The Engineering Design Process:

Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. They follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve.

Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educational environment in their classroom! This is perfect as a beginning of the year activity or end of the year STEM challenge!

Aligns with NGSS(Next Gen Science Standards).

What teachers are saying about Windmill STEM Challenge:

"This was a great challenge, and supplemented nicely with our Earth science unit on renewable resources!"

"These pages provided so much support in the planning phases of this windmill challenge for my first graders. They blew me away with their final products!"

"These are wonderful. I used them as brain breaks with my STEM bins." - Jessica C.

Includes:

  • Teacher Instructions
  • Student Instructions
  • Example Photo
  • Student STEM Journal
  • Student Planning Pages
  • Student Reflection Page
  • NGSS Standards

Material List:

  • Straws
  • Tape
  • Card Stock
  • Scissors
  • Hole Punch

Digital Activity:

To use Easel for Distance Learning, select "Open in Easel" on this listing. Works with computers, laptops, chromebooks, ipads, and tablets.

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Total Pages
10 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
90 minutes
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
NGSSK-2-ETS1-2
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
NGSSK-2-ETS1-3
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
NGSSK-2-ETS1-1
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
NGSS3-5-ETS1-3
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
NGSS3-5-ETS1-1
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

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