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STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions

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This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Challenge Bucket Tower Problem-Solving Learning Activity Upper Elementary

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This unique and original STEM Activity features a bucket with the challenge to build a tower that will hold weight. It's an engaging student favorite and you will love the ready-made lab sheets and low prep. Students must also explain why their

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Spaghetti Tower Challenge Problem-Solving Project

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Who knew a project using spaghetti could be so engaging and have easy prep for you? Students love this tower-building event with the unlikeliest of materials- spaghetti and one marshmallow. You will enjoy the ready-made lab sheets and the 4

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Marble Maze Challenge – Problem-Solving Activity

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You will love the versatility of this challenge. Three versions of the activity are included. Each version has a teacher's guide. Student lab sheets and sample answers are also provided. Your students will be a"mazed" with this project, too!➡️ Click

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Project: Easy Prep Challenge for Team Building - Index Card Bridge

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Building bridges with one simple material requires teamwork! This STEM project features the Index Card Bridge and is a student and teacher favorite. Students love the problem-solving and you will love the easy prep!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Toothpick Tower Challenge Easy Prep Problem-Solving Activity

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Are you looking for an easy prep challenge? This Toothpick Tower STEM Activity is the one! Towers are the best! Students love to build and stack items to create the tallest possible tower. With this tower challenge, they also have to be diligent in

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

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STEM 12 Straws Tower Challenge Problem-Solving Activity Easy Prep - 3 Versions

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If you have limited supplies for a STEM Challenge can you still build a tower? Yes, you can! This is a STEM project using only 1material with the option of adding tape. This resource includes three versions of the tower-building activity.➡️ Click

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Easy Bridge Challenge One-Day Project

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Here’s another easy prep and easy materials STEM challenge that will be the most fun in your STEM class ever! It’s a bridge-building activity that gives students a choice of the style of bridge they want to try. The best news is: there are only two

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

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STEM Challenge Cup Stacking Math-Based Activity featuring Easy Prep

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If you need easy-prep and math-based activities you are going to love this challenge! How tall can you stack 100 cups? Can you calculate the mean, median, mode, and range with your data? This is a perfect challenge to practice these math skills and

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Other (Math), Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$3.50

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STEM Tennis Ball Tower Quick Challenge

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Are you looking for a STEM Challenge with a unique "twist"? This one has an intriguing tower to build and there are two building options in the resource! It features a tennis ball and some wacky rules about height and the use of the materials!What

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

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315

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STEM Challenge Activity Hoop Flyers Easy Prep Project

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Another great STEM experiment and building challenge with the easiest of supplies: Straws! This challenge is to create the ultimate hoop flyer. Students will experiment with changing the variables of a standard hoop flyer and then choose which

Subjects:

Measurement, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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STEM Foil Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project

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Are you ready for an amazing easy prep STEM activity that will really test your students? This is it! Students must build a tower with only 12 inches of tape and a 12-inch square of the building material! The problem-solving on this one is intense

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

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STEM Challenge Water Towers Problem-Solving Activity

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Ready for another STEM tower challenge? You will love the easy prep and your students will love designing Water Towers. For this fabulous STEM Activity, we added a couple of twists! An object must be held aloft and students use a budget! And there

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

$3.50

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STEM 12 Cards Tower Challenge Easy Prep - 2 Versions

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This STEM Tower Challenge has limited materials– only a dozen of each! This one uses just cards and tape! You will absolutely love the easy prep and your kids will love the challenge of completing this tower. It's all about total teamwork!➡️ Click

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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Valentine's Day Stem Challenge Candy Box Project Based Activity

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Are you ready for a STEM Challenge for Valentine’s Day! Here’s a fabulous STEM project that uses measuring, volume, estimation, design, building, and a little bit of artistic flair! Best of all, there is candy involved in this STEM activity and that

Subjects:

Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

$3.50

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STEM Challenge Platforms with Straws An Easy Prep Problem-Solving Activity

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Your students are going to love building this platform! And you will too, since it only uses two materials and both are things you probably already have! Easy-peasy to set up and it is challenging!Note: This challenge can be purchased as part of

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

$3.50

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STEM Challenge Activity Pipeline Prototypes

By Teachers Are Terrific - STEM Activities

This is a fantastic challenge to build a pipeline model! This challenge has a great backstory and the best part is that it only uses two materials -two that you already have! Share the scenario with your students and enjoy the problem-solving that

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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STEM Challenge Craft Stick Platforms An Easy Prep Problem-Solving Activity

By Teachers Are Terrific - STEM Activities

Ready for platform STEM Challenge? This one is really fun but very challenging! Best of all it only uses two materials! Even better - there are several different ways to use this challenge. The detailed teacher's guide will help you choose from the

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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STEM Challenge Build a Pencil Box

By Teachers Are Terrific - STEM Activities

Here’s a fabulous STEM challenge to help ease into STEM at the beginning of a school year! It’s all about school boxes and pencils! This one has an interesting premise and will spark a discussion about why students would need to build a pencil box.

Subjects:

General Science, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

$3.50

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STEM Paper Platforms Challenge An Easy Prep Problem-Solving Activity

By Teachers Are Terrific - STEM Activities

Your students are going to love this platform experiment and design challenge! So will you since the materials are so easy! This one also has some fun experimenting with shapes before the design challenge! And only two materials!Note: This

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for 30+ years! This includes the regular classroom and a specialist position. Grades I have taught:

Grades 3, 4, and 5
Grades 1-2 STEM
Grades 3-5 STEM

MY TEACHING STYLE

I think we learn best by trying something and learning from mistakes.

Hands-On
No Fear of Failure
Learn by Doing

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Creating resources for busy teachers has been the greatest adventure!

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Masters Degree in Elementary Education

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

"If anyone ever tells you your dreams are silly, just remember there is a millionaire walking around who invented the pool noodle". And he probably would have been an excellent student in a STEM Lab!

GRADES

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Order of Operations, Other (Math), Science, Anatomy, Astronomy, Basic Principles, Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Other (Science), Social Studies, Other (Specialty), Geography, Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Physical Science, Problem Solving, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Decimals, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Place Value, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, End of Year, Engineering, Classroom Community