Gingerbread Man STEM Challenges

These gingerbread STEM activities are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second-grade engineers working together or alone in centers this Christmas. A great addition to your unit on gingerbread this December.

This resource uses the engineering design process to solve problems all winter. Your kids will have fun building a boat, a bridge, and a hideout for the gingerbread man.

Each challenge has a bonus challenge to help differentiate.

Make this holiday season fun with hands-on STEM activities. STEM is the perfect way to build critical thinking skills and cooperative learning opportunities. Push your kids up Bloom's Taxonomy with these fun activities.

What's included?

Cover sheet for Engineering Design Notebook

Challenge page There are 3 challenges build a boat, build a bridge, and build a hideout. Each challenge has a bonus challenge to encourage even more critical thinking

Brainstorming page A good engineer takes time to think and plan about how they will solve the problem.

Reflection sheet It's time to test to see if their design works. They have an opportunity to report on how their design worked - or didn't work.

Improvement sheet. Redesigning is a critical step in the design process this page gives them time to think about how they can improve their design

Sharing sheet. The final step in the engineering design process is sharing their results with others. This page is meant to provide an opportunity to share their results with their classmates. This step helps everyone grow and inspires creativity.

Finally, put them all together to create their Engineering Design Notebook

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This resource is included in

Gingerbread BUNDLE

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