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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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STEM Challenges Easy Towers Bundle One-Day Activities

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These three amazing STEM Challenges are all about designing with one material! Twelve straws or 12 cards or 12 inches of foil! You may hear your students groan at this news, but then they will jump right in and tackle these towers! You will love

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Challenges 6 Projects featuring Towers Bundle 1

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Let's build a tower! This package contains six STEM Challenges featuring Towers. Each tower has unique features and your students will love them all! You will love the detailed teacher's guides and editable student forms:)This bundle contains six

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engineering

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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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

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STEM Quick Challenge Platform Towers

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This easy-prep activity is one of the most unique STEM Challenges ever! The premise is simple: it’s a group tower-building project and I mean the entire class. Yes, that is right! It is a powerful way to build community and learn about being on a

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Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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STEM Challenge Egg Tower Activity

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Are you looking for an easy-prep challenge? This one is for you! If you need a challenge that can be used in one class session and at any time of year, this one is perfect. It's also "Egg-citing"! The Egg Tower STEM Activity is one your students

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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STEM Quick Challenge Spoon Towers

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Need a quick STEM engineering task? You are going to love this one! It’s a Spoon Tower! This challenge can be a silly one and it can also be a challenging one. An alternative version of the challenge adds a twist to the rules that will set your

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

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STEM Challenge Bridges and Towers

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This is such an amazing collaborative STEM activity! Students must join together with another group to complete the task! One team builds a bridge and the other team builds a tower for the bridge. This is the ultimate in teamwork since the teams

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STEM Fun Towers Challenge BUNDLE

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It is so exciting to offer you a chance to grab a STEM bundle of these fun tower challenges. All three of these towers use unusual materials or have interesting constraints for the task. The best news is- students adore these projects! You will,

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General Science, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

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$10.50

$8.50

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STEM Challenge Satellite Dish Towers Teamwork Activity

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Are you ready for a fabulous STEM Tower Challenge that has a fun little twist? Students love this satellite dish tower! Teams work in mini-teams of two to design part of the tower and then join their parts together.➡️ Click here to save 20% on this

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STEM Challenge Towers Bundle 2 - Water, Tennis Ball, & Satellite Towers

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Do your students love building towers? This is the package for you! Here’s the theme with these STEM activities: Each tower must hold something aloft! And, just to make it even more fun, each challenge has its own special twist!➡️Please note: This

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STEM Challenge Suspended Cup Towers

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Are you looking for a STEM activity that has easy prep, easy materials, and will produce amazing problem-solving for your students? This challenge will do all that! A minimum of materials is used with a fun, problem-solving dilemma that will have

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Grades:

4^th, 5^th

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STEM Challenge Build a Twirling Tower

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What a unique tower this turned out to be! This STEM Tower challenge will become a favorite of your students. Not only do they design the tower, but it must also have a specific performing part and they must invent the reason for that part of the

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General Science, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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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