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Bunny Building

3/12/2019

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The fourth grade classes that I have been working with this year recently were wrapping up their unit on angles.  They worked on defining and drawing acute, obtuse, right, and straight angles as well as using a protractor to measure angles.  I thought this would be a great topic to work in a review activity with STEAM, but wasn't sure how I wanted to approach it...until I went to the Dollar Tree and saw the cutest little bunny mini erasers.

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I can't remember who shared it on Instagram, but I remember seeing a STEAM activity using clothespins and popsicle sticks to build a tower.  I knew the bunnies would be a great addition to the resources they could use!  I know these fourth graders are always up for a challenge, so I knew I could switch up the activity by telling them what I would like them to do (build the tallest tower possible that holds the most bunnies) with the provided materials (popsicle sticks, clothespins, bunnies), but then not give them any materials to complete the task.  The looks on their face were priceless!  Hello confusion, please meet irritation. I then told them they would have to "buy" their supplies from me by completing some task cards that are worth "Bunny Bucks."  The looks on their faces began to soften a little.  :)

I told the students that they would each need to complete the task cards/Bunny Bucks individually, but the materials that they earned belonged to the group.  Once they had earned their supplies, as a group they could then begin building their tower.  I wanted to make sure that the students understood the content first, but also that their individual work contributed to the success of the whole group.

We started with the clothespin Bunny Bucks (I did each set of cards on a different color paper to help the students quickly know which material cards they still needed to complete) and then the popsicle stick Bunny Bucks, and finally the bunny Bunny Bucks.  The students did AMAZING with managing their time and resources.  I asked them to turn in each set of cards and collect their resources before moving on to the next set of cards.  It worked out really well and the students did a great job of coaching one another when they were having some struggles instead of just sharing the answer with their neighbor (we reviewed this first!).

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The creations that the students came up were awesome!  It seemed that the groups all took a different approach and some were very secretive about their builds.  I stressed with them that there is no "right" way to complete this task and they just needed to use their collective creative brains to find a solution.  The bunny sandwich approach was highly entertaining, but obviously not the tallest tower!
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