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Hi Madison,
These are some STEM tasks that my students have enjoyed doing. These STEM activities are not only fun and engaging but also foster critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration skills among students. I hope this is helpful.
1. Paper Airplane Engineering: Have students design and build paper airplanes using different types of paper and techniques. They can experiment with wing shapes, sizes, and folds to see how they affect flight distance and stability.
2. Marshmallow Tower Challenge: Provide students with marshmallows and toothpicks and challenge them to build the tallest freestanding tower possible. This activity encourages teamwork, problem-solving, and engineering skills.
3. Egg Drop Challenge: Challenge students to design a container to protect a raw egg from breaking when dropped from various heights. This activity allows students to apply principles of physics and engineering to solve real-world problems.
4. Pasta Bridge Building: Provide students with uncooked pasta and glue, and challenge them to build a bridge that can support the weight of objects (such as coins or small toys). This activity teaches concepts of structural engineering and design.
5. DIY Slime: Guide students through making slime using common household ingredients like glue, borax, and water. This activity introduces concepts of chemistry and polymer science in a fun and hands-on way.
6. Water Bottle Rocket Launch: Have students design and build water bottle rockets using empty plastic bottles, fins, and a launcher. Then, take them outside for a rocket launch to observe physics principles such as thrust, trajectory, and aerodynamics.
7. Coding Challenges: Introduce students to basic coding concepts using online platforms like Scratch or Code.org. They can create animations, games, or interactive stories while learning about computational thinking and problem-solving.
8. Mystery Bag STEM Challenges: Place various materials (such as popsicle sticks, rubber bands, plastic cups, etc.) in mystery bags and challenge students to use the contents to solve a given problem or complete a task, such as building a catapult or a zip line.
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