STEM Valentine's Day Challenge: Candy Grabber Math & Engineering
- PDF
What educators are saying
Also included in
Are you in need of year-round STEM activities? This growing bundle includes our most popular STEM lessons and engineering design challenges for middle school grades! Click here for more guidance on planning out a STEM class including a scope and sequence and example STEM curriculum map. Includes a SPrice $388.52Original Price $485.65Save $97.13
Are you in need of year-round STEM activities? This growing bundle includes ALL Vivify K-12 STEM lessons from team challenges, engineering design, semester-long STEM units, research projects, and more! Purchase everything for 20% off individual products! Here is a sample of what is included: Stage 1Price $990.24Original Price $1237.80Save $247.56
Description
Valentine's Day STEM Activity
This engineering design challenge is perfect for a fun and educational STEM Valentine's Day challenge! Students will design and build a device that uses the power of levers to pick up candy from a distance. Included teacher instruction slides and printed or digital student journals.
**Note: this challenge is identical to the Fall Halloween Candy Grabber Challenge but with a Valentine's Day theme!
Supports Distance Learning: Editable Google Slides for a digital STEM Journal
Science background: Students first learn about levers to apply the knowledge to create their candy grabber device.
Engineering Challenge: Oh no! The machinery at the local candy factory broke down, spilling delicious candies in a huge pile on the floor. To avoid contamination, workers are not allowed to pick up the candy by hand. Using common materials such as cardboard, string, and tape, students create a candy grabber to move the spill candy into a container. A full teacher guide includes links to videos, photos of student projects, and resources. The packet also include handouts to guide your students through the engineering design process to solve the challenge.
STEM Real-World Connections: The challenge describes the work of a prosthetist.
As with many STEM activities that are student-driven, this challenge can be tailored to students of various skill levels and abilities.
Included in this product:
- Detailed teachers guide with links to resources
- Editable teacher slides
- Grading rubric for the engineering design process
- STEM Career Connections
- STEM Real-world Connection
- Student handouts to guide them through the engineering design process
- Editable Google Slides for a STEM Journal
- Math extension problems including areas, percentages, and graphing (With an answer key) in both customary and metric units
Materials needed:
- Tape
- Wooden paint stirrers or 12β square dowel sticks
- Plastic straws
- Single-hole punch
- Cardboard (cereal boxes, tissue boxes)
- String
- Scissors
- Rubber bands
- Brass fasteners
- Paper clips
- Sandpaper
- Toothpicks
- Candy variety (lollipops, candy hearts, etc.)
- Container like a box to drop candy in
Looking for more STEM lessons? Our team of engineers and educators is dedicated to developing low-prep and high-quality STEM activities for any classroom! Click below to learn more:
- Vivify's Scope & Sequence + Standards Alignment
- Vivify's Resource Guide
- Learn about the 3 Stages of STEM
- Vivify STEM Membership
Customer Tips:
β’ Click the Green β to follow our store and get notifications of new products and freebies
β’ Leave feedback to receive TpT credit for use on future purchases
β’ Questions? Contact us in the Product Q&A section
β₯ Connect With Us β₯
Email us: info@vivifystem.com
Standards
Reviews
Questions & Answers
