Apple STEM Activity for Fall Science and STEM - Apple Annihilator STEM Challenge
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This back-to-school STEM activity brings joy to your classroom with collaborative, hands-on, brain-busting work (disguised as fun)! Of course, this challenge is also great for any time in the fall when learning about apples and Johnny Appleseed!
It's also a great intro to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which is part of 3rd and middle school NGSS standards! (3PS2-1, MS-PS2-1, and MS-PS2-2)
In this Back-to-School STEM Activity:
Students will design and build an apple wrecking ball built for annihilation in partners or groups!
• Students will set up marker “bowling pins” and try to knock down as many as possible using their apple wrecking ball designs.
Note: This is the printable version. If you are in a 1:1 / paperless classroom, you will want to check out the digital option for use with GOOGLE SLIDES (TM) instead.
If you have questions about which version is right for you, please feel free to leave me a question using the product Q&A below.
The Apple Annihilator Back-to-School activity resource includes:
NGSS aligned standards, Grades 2 – 8
✅ Teacher Tips
- Links to STEM Challenge How-To videos
- Materials and timing
- Criteria & Constraints (including modifications to increase difficulty for older students)
- Measuring results
- Post-design extension activities list
- Link to a video walk-through of the challenge
✅ EDITABLE Student Handouts
- Criteria & Constraints List (color and black & white)
- Bowling pin guide sheets to help students set up markers for annihilation and accuracy tests.
- Design Analysis Handouts (2-page regular spacing and 4-page expanded spacing for primary students included) (in color and black & white)
- >>>>>Two options provided: Test for annihilation only or annihilation & accuracy
- Discussion Questions (in color and black & white)
✅ Extension templates
- Process Flow Map
- Create Math Problems Based on Designs
This is one of five Back to School STEM activities available at a discount in the Back-to-School STEM Activities Bundle.
This resource is also available in the STEM CHALLENGE YEAR-ROUND MEGA-BUNDLE at an even greater discount!
Sample/suggested materials for each student or group:
Materials you’ll need to do the activity are easily modified.
- Set of markers (10)
- Markers will be used like bowling pins, so must stand on their own Crayola or broad highlighters work well
- Apple (1)
- Pocket folder with prongs (1)
- >>>>>File folder or pocket folder without prongs may be substituted
- Small or medium binder clips (1 – 2)
- Unsharpened pencils (4 – 6)
- Tape (24 – 36 in.)
- String or yarn (36 – 48 in.)
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Design analysis handouts (included)
- Marker “bowling pin” handouts (included)
Optional
• Cardboard boxes, tubes, or scraps (helpful in building a support structure and base for the wrecking ball rather than attaching to desk/table)
• Craft sticks
• Pipe cleaners
• Dowels
• Rubber bands
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Please check out the video preview to see the challenge, and don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions!
Video preview music credit:
"Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
