These STEAM activities were meant to complement our content Glow Games, but give the students a chance to push their collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity skills while building confidence. We set the room up in stations and students spent about 7 minutes at a station before rotating to the next (we have 50 minute class periods). Students had to start at the Level 1 Challenge, complete it, show their teacher, and then could move on to the Level 2. This was intentional as we wanted the students working together to build 1 creation, not individual creations. |
Cup Stacking
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Wooden Planks
- Station Sign
- Yard Stick
- Wooden Planks (I created my own from 1x2-8ft primed finger joint board. I purchased 8 - 8ft boards and cut them into 4 inch pieces. They are a bit bigger than KEVA planks, but were primed and easy to spray paint with neon spray paint. For about $50 I was able to create my own set of almost 200 neon building planks!)
Straw Builders
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Qubits
- Station Sign
- Qubits (I used the glow in the dark Qubits, but they are not actively for sale - I contacted the company after seeing them on Instagram and they sold me some they had from a little Kickstarter they had done. I just want to give the disclosure that these are not readily available for purchase.)
Brain Flakes
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