Principal's Spring STEAM Challenge
Principal's Spring STEAM Challenge
If your child chooses to participate, please have turned in by Friday, April 17th!
If your child chooses to participate, please have turned in by Friday, April 17th!
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Kindergarten-2nd Grade STEAM Challenge
Kindergarten-2nd Grade STEAM Challenge
How can we use what we observe in each season to create something that shows how the world changes over time?
How can we use what we observe in each season to create something that shows how the world changes over time?
Read the book before completing the STEAM Challenge. You may choose to check out this book from the library, purchase for your own keeping, or even read it online.
This is meant to be a way for students use their creativity and critical thinking skills. There is no right or wrong answer. The process might be messy and that is okay! Remember to have fun!
After your child finishing reading the book, discuss the following questions:
What do you notice happening in each season, and how do the pictures help you understand those changes?
How are some seasons different from each other, and how they the same?
Why do you think the author chose to show real photographs of each season instead of drawings, and how does that help us learn about seasons?
The Challenge:
The Challenge:
After reading Every Season by Shelly Rotner, think about how the world changes throughout the year. Each season looks, feels, and sounds different.
Your challenge is to design and create a Seasons Creation that shows how one season (or all four seasons) changes plants, animals, weather, or people. Your project should help others understand what makes each season special.
Bring your creation to share in our school library so everyone can see how seasons change no later than Friday, April 17th.
Requirements:
Requirements:
Your project must show at least one season.
Use household, recycled, or natural materials.
Show creativity with color, design, or a fun idea.
Include a short explanation (drawing, labels, or oral explanation) that tells:
Which season(s) you chose
What happens during that season
What you learned from the book
Possible Ideas to Guide Student Thinking:
Possible Ideas to Guide Student Thinking:
Remember, these are just ideas. We want to encourage students to come up with their own ideas for the challenge as much as possible!
These are just ideas! Students are encouraged to come up with their own creative projects.
Create a model or diorama showing one season.
Make a four-seasons wheel or flip book.
Design an outfit or tool people use in a certain season.
Build a home or shelter for an animal in one season.
Create a seasons collage using colors and textures.
Track daily weather for a week and show how it matches a season.
3rd-5th Grade STEAM Challenge
3rd-5th Grade STEAM Challenge
How do patterns of change in spring help us predict what will happen next, and how can we model those patterns?
Read the book before completing the STEAM Challenge. You may choose to check out this book from the library, purchase for your own keeping, or even read it online.
This is meant to be a way for students use their creativity and critical thinking skills. There is no right or wrong answer. The process might be messy and that is okay! Remember to have fun!
After your child finishing reading the book, discuss the following questions:
What changes do you notice in the sotry from the beginning to the end, and how do those changes show that spring has arrived?
What clues did the author and illustrator give you to know that spring has arrived by the end of the story?
What is one way spring in the book is the same as spring as where we live? How is spring different here?
The Challenge:
After reading When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes, think about the patterns of change that happen as winter turns into spring. These changes follow predictable patterns in weather, plants, and animals.
Your task is to design and create a model or system that shows one spring pattern and helps others understand what causes the change and what happens next.
Bring your model to share in the school library so others in the school can see! Please have your project turned in no later than Friday, April 17th.
Requirements:
Focus on one spring pattern (weather, plant growth, animal behavior, or daylight).
Create a model, system, or simulation that shows:
What changes
What causes the change
What happens next
Use household, recycled, or natural materials.
Include an explanation that:
Names the pattern
Explains cause and effect
Uses evidence from the book and/or real observations
Makes a prediction about what comes next
Possible Ideas to Guide Student Thinking:
Remember: these are just ideas! We encourage students to create their own unique spring projects.
Model how temperature and sunlight affect plant growth.
Create a system showing how rainfall impacts soil and plants.
Design a timeline model of animal migration or insect life cycles.
Build a daylight model showing longer days in spring.
Track local spring data and create a visual model to explain trends.
Create a “spring predictor” that explains what will happen if a variable changes.
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