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Did you know that STEM activities are a great way to build classroom community and teamwork at the beginning of the year? Unfortunately, STEM challenges can tend to be used as a classroom competition where students and groups are competing against each other. While classroom comp

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Use marshmallows, toothpicks, and spaghetti noodles to make towers, letters, and shapes. This engineering activity is perfect for kids ages 3 and up! Toothpick Tower, Toothpick Crafts, Steam Teacher, Makerspace Ideas, School Age Activities, Stem Engineering, Engineering Activities, Stem Challenges, Stem Projects

You know what I love even more than when an activity goes exactly as planned? When my kids take the lesson even further than I'd dreamed. That sends this deceptively educational mom over the moon! This simple engineering activity is a perfect example. I got the idea from a local STEM event eons ago, that provided kids with mostly edible building supplies and asked them to build and evaluate which shapes created the strongest, most stable structure. On the table were gumdrops, marshmallows…

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Toothpick Tower Challenge! Freebie Recording Sheets Stem Challenges Middle School, Toothpick Tower, Classroom Team Building Activities, Stem Activities Middle School, Teaching Emotions, Meeting Activities, Stem Lab, Animal Classification, Engineering Challenge

Added some engineering to our day! What fun they had and it was great listening in on their reasoning on how to build the tallest tower in the class! Each partnership was given a packet to follow to complete the challenge. We started by watching a few youtube videos. These are not in the download. How to make a Toothpick Structure 3D Shapes The students got out their Chrome books and followed the links I provided them on the Classroom drive. This made sure they were not browsing and finding…

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One of the best challenges you can try in your STEM class is one we have done over and over again. This one is a kid-favorite and a teacher-favorite. There are several reasons you will love this challenge, but I will let a fifth grader explain it better. "Oh man, our tower was, like 30

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