| 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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Plus Plus
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Wooden Planks
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- 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
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- 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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Glow STEAM in Action
At the end of the hour, we asked students to clean up their stations and reset the classroom for the next class. Some classes were able to do this quickly and we invited them to use a highlighter to write what they loved about the day. You can tell some students were completely worn out from the fun (and heat!), but they had some great things to share.
