Build a Bubble Wand End of the Year STEM Challenge
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Integrate STEM in your Classroom at the End of the School Year!
Make learning fun with this End of the Year STEM Activity! For the Bubble Wand STEM Challenge, students are asked by a toy company to design a bubble wand that makes the biggest bubbles.
The STEM Process:
Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.
Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM Teachers, STEM Friday, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educational environment in their classroom! Works as an excellent STEM Center or as a whole classroom experience.
Aligns with NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards).
What teachers are saying about Build a Bubble Wand STEM Activity:
"This activity is SO much fun!!! Can be used with primary and intermediate students! They LOVED it!" - Heather T.
"I used this STEM activity for a GT camp this summer. This was a messy but definitely fun activity. My students kept asking for more pipe cleaners so they could improve on their designs. Gets kids thinking in creative ways."
"I used this at the end of the year with my fourth graders and I was amazed how engaged they were with "bubbles" of all things. Thank you for a fun STEM activity." - Tracy W.
"So much fun! The kids made some amazing bubble wands and really made great bubbles. They were so excited! Thanks for a great resource." - Michelle B.
Includes:
- Teacher Instructions with Example Photo
- Student STEM Journal
- Student Instructions
- Student Prediction and Testing Pages
- Student Reflection Pages
- NGSS Standards
- TpT Digital Version for Distance Learning with Google Classroom
Digital Activity:
To use Easel for Distance Learning, select "Open in Easel" on this listing. Works with computers, laptops, chromebooks, ipads, and tablets.
Material List:
- Pipe Cleaners
- Scissors
- Bubbles
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Aligns to NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how
the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given
problem.
K-2-ETS1-3 Engineering Design
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
3-5-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on
how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the
problem.
3-5-ETS1-3 Engineering Design
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
