Volcano Shelter STEM Challenge

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Grade Levels

2nd - 6th, Homeschool

Subjects

Earth Sciences, Gifted and Talented, Engineering

Resource Type

Projects, Activities

Standards

CCSS6.G.A.1

CCSS6.G.A.2

CCSS6.G.A.3

CCSS6.G.A.4

CCSS7.G.B.4

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34 pages

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I teach STEM for our afterschool program with students in 3rd-5th grade. The students had a BLAST! They loved it. Thank you!

— Kelly D.

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My students loved learning about volcanoes and were engaged in trying to design a structure to withstand ash as well as lava. Volcano day (when we tested their designs) was an exciting day!

— Kelly F.

Rated 5 out of 5

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Volcano Shelter STEM Challenge

Your students will have a blast working in teams to build a shelter that can survive a volcanic eruption! This product is complete with detailed instructions, hand-outs, and extension activities for a quality STEM challenge to be used in the classroom or afterschool. The activity guides your students through the engineering design process and connects math topics to real-world applications. Our students have loved this activity, and we know yours will too!

This engaging, student-driven activity includes an optional simulated volcanic eruption, to test the students' shelter designs, using baking soda and vinegar. This makes for an exciting and educational experience they will remember!

Included in this product:

Detailed teachers guide with links to resources
Companion instruction slides
Volcano information sheet
Grading Rubric
Editable student handouts to guide them through the engineering design process: includes printed & digital journals on Google Slides
Student recording sheet for each step of the process
Reflection questions to ensure concepts are understood
Math connection problems including surface area and unit conversion (answer key included) in customary and metric units

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34 pages

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Teaching Duration

3 hours

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CCSS6.G.A.1

Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS6.G.A.2

Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths of the prism. Apply the formulas 𝘝 = 𝘭 𝘸 𝘩 and 𝘝 = 𝘣 𝘩 to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS6.G.A.3

Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS6.G.A.4

Represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles, and use the nets to find the surface area of these figures. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS7.G.B.4

Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle.

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