Slow & Steady with a Reintroduction to the Engineering Design Model and Some Teambuilding Activities
Pipe Cleaner & Tin Foil Challenge: Create something using these supplies: Tin Foil, Pipe Cleaners & 1 craft stick. It must be unique, creative and a theme is observable by the audience/viewer. Index Card Tower Challenge with a Twist.
Challenges during Quarter 1 (K-2): Build a Strong House for the Little Pigs; Build a Tower using only 100 toothpicks & 2 cups of Marshmallows; Build a spider that can go up and down a water spout; chess challenges; creating a dinosaur with Greek and Latin roots/prefixes/suffixes.
3rd/4th Grade Hurricane Towers -- Challenge: Using only the given supplies, create a tower that can withstand the wind power of a hurricane.
Pencil Challenge: Build the tallest tower you can with pencils only. K-3
End of 2020 Challenges: Paper Chairs that could hold weight; engineering a gingerbread house for Kindergarten.