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This resource is an introductory kindergarten STEM unit that focused on building a trap to catch a gingerbread man. This activity integrates STEM with literacy as students read, write, learn about pushes and pulls, and design a trap for the folktale, The Gingerbread Man.

Students will investigate the interactions between colliding objects using pushes and pulls. After listening to the book, Push and Pull by Charlotte Guillian, students will play a game of kickball and observe how the ball is pushed, pulled, started, stopped, collided with other objects and how it changed position and speed. As a group, students will then brainstorm about other objects being pushed ...