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Makerspace activities
Decorate Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbons
Digital Escape Rooms
Puzzle
Little Bits/Snap Circuits

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Third Grade
- Halloween candy and toothpick tower
- Floating paper clip
- STEM/STEAM club (3 & 4 gr)
- 'Gingerbread house construction

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6th

Past, Present and Future Innovations
Tower Challenge
Playground Equipment Design Challenge
LED Circuit Construction

7th
Whirligig Challenge
Water Powered Rocket Challenge
Catapult Challenge
Roller Coaster Challenge

8th
Mousetrap Car Design Challenge
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Challenges
Using Onshape for Design Computer Aided Design Program
Boat Hull Design

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- Grade 3 - Genius Hour - Passion Projects where students explore the design process to create a project around their wonders
- Grade 4- Invention (Shark Tank)
- Code.org unplugged challenges

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5th grade - catapult
5th  grade- Egg Drop
5th Grade- submarine
5th- Marble roller coaster
5th- Cup Tower
after school club - coding/ robots with dot and dash
paper tower challenge

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Skyscraper Challenge
App Development
Boat Design
Solar Invention
Car Crash Challenge
Drones
Rube Goldberg Machines
Electronics/Circuits

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5th Grade:  Engineering Bridges
with straws and tape (compete for bridge to hold the most weight)

3rd Grade:  Engineering Leprechaun Traps

3rd Grade:  Paper Airplane Challenge

2nd Grade:  100 Cup Challenge

2nd Grade:  Engineering Monsters That Can Stand On Their Own

1st Grade:  Three Little Pigs
Engineering a house for the three little pigs that can't be "blown" down

All Grades:  Hour of Code

Makerspace :
-3-D Winter Objects
-Origami
-Paper Snowflakes
-Digital Snowflakes
-Building with straws and connectors
-Building with Locktagons
-Making bookmarks
-Puzzles

Research Projects with
-BrainPOP
-PebbleGo
-World Book Online
-TrueFlix
-Nettrekker

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All Grades:
Hour of Code - All Grades
Kindergarten:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree challenge
1st Grade:
3 Little Pigs House
Yertle the Turtle Tower

2nd Grade:
100 Cups Tower Challenge  - Iggy Pect
3rd Grade:
Paper Airplane Challenge
4th Grade:
Glogster - Women of the World Project

Club - Robotics & Coding

5th Grade:
Club - Robotics & Coding
*(in classroom) 5th grade - Bridge building
-Creating an ecosystem
5th Grade - Makerspace club
-K'Nex
-Building speakers
-3D Printing

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(5th Grade)
Kelly Education Initiative collaboration with NASA ED (Katie Wallace) and Montclair State University (Jacalyn Willis)
Morning Maker Space
- Ozobot Olympics
- Dot/Dash,
- Spheros
- MakeDo
- Creative Cardboard

- Tinker Stations
- Kinex Roller Coaster

- Hour of Code

- Makey Makey

- Movie Making

Lego Robotics
- Animal Allies
- Senior Solutions
- Mission Mars
Friday Design Challenge
- Egg Drop (4th Grade)
- Index Card Structure
- Balloon Cars
- Paper Roller Coasters
- Punkin' Chunkin' Challenge

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K-5
> 100 cup building challenge ( started with 100 cups and has expanded to 400 and 500 cup designs)

3-5
> helicopter challenge (take prototype and change the design to slow its descent)
> Hour of Code Hall of Fame
>  Paper Chain Challenge (make the longest  paper chain with one piece of construction paper, glue stick and scissors)
> Tech Savvy After School Program:  Prezi, Animoto, Coding, etc.

> PBS Global Design Challenges (build a table from 9 sheets of newspaper and masking tape that can hold a big dictionary)

Created a STEM section of the library with hands-on activity books, biographies of STEM heroes -- especially women.

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Enrichment - Robotics / Coding
Rube Goldberg Challenges- Grade 1
3 Little Pigs/Billy Goats Gruff/Goldilocks Challenge- Grade 1

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Buehler Challenger and Science Center trip

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1st grade invention convention March 29

Hour of Code all grades
-unplugged - code a story
-block coding, scratch

Winter STEM 3-5
-constructing snowflakes (symmetry)
-cup stacking
-build a sled to race
-paper chain challenge

Makerspace at recess 4-5
-origami
-Storybook STEM kits
-coding

Women MAKE History 4-5
-research-based- choose a woman in a STEM field to learn more about and then design something inspired by them (ie engineer- Emily Roebling- Brooklyn Bridge-build bridge to support a toy elephant)

Storybook STEM grade 2
building challenges inspired by fairy tales and folktales - kits were purchased from Lakeshore

Seuss STEM K-5
-build a structure for 10 apples
-cup stacking the cats hat
-bottle top stacking yertle the turtle
-build the king's stilts
-balloon race
-build a nest to support a gallon jug of water