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I was glad to find this resource that visuals for me to print out for my students with examples of the different bridge types. There are also reward certificates for completing the bridge design.

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This low prep Building Bridges STEM Challenges includes low prep printable and digital components. Display bridges from around the world, vocabulary and interactive features. Great for sending home or completing in school. Pair with Iggy Peck, Architect!
Save 30% when you purchase the YEAR LONG bundle & receive one activity for EACH week! Click here!

Includes a digital component for distance learning or modeling in the classroom. Print individual task cards or large team task cards. Easy to use across multiple grade levels.
INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:
Google Slides Presentation / works with Microsoft PowerPoint

Share a copy with students using Google Classroom

Includes task cards, response sheets, timer

Students can type on the response sheets about what they did or add photos

Challenges are easy to complete at home

Instructional video

Shake break

The slideshow contains various photos of bridges from around the world. Show these bridges to your students along with the examples, then let creativity take over.

Read aloud of Iggy Peck, Architect and Thomas and the Big, Big Bridge

Timer

Printable response sheets - Five drawing extension sheets to meet your students' level

Task cards - small for individual student challenge and large for team challenges

Student certificates

Printable stickers - print on Avery labels

Teacher tips & directions

Great read aloud lesson for Iggy Peck, Architect or Thomas & The Big Big Bridge - or use an alternative bridge themed book.

I teach 360 students each week in grades K through 4th, so I created these activities to be able to easily set up, use reusable materials, and need low copying! I can adjust response sheets and challenges to meet each grade level. I need something quick and easy for me, yet engaging and challenging for my students! I hope your students enjoy these as much as mine do! :)

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This low prep Building Bridges STEM Challenges includes low prep printable and digital components. Display bridges from around the world, vocabulary and interactive features. Great for sending home or completing in school. Pair with Iggy Peck, Architect! Save 30% when you purchase the YEAR LONG bund...

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K-2-ETS1-3 - Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
ELA.1.R.2.2 - Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text.
ELA.1.R.2.3 - Explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words in an informational text.
ELA.1.C.4.1 - Participate in research to gather information to answer a question about a single topic.
MA.1.DP.1.1 - Collect data into categories and represent the results using tally marks or pictographs.

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Students will need to have some understanding of the design process. The steps in the process will be reviewed and discussed using this information

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This information about inventor Garrett Morgan is in our ELA curriculum. This information will be used in a discussion of how inventors make life better for people.

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What Makes Bridges So Strong? | Engineering for Kids | STEAM | SciShow Kids

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https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/bridge-building-stem-activities.html

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There is so much to learn and explore in so many disciplines that it's hard to include everything we want to in our curriculum. Whenever we can interweave concepts in a meaningful way, I love to do so. These Bridge Building STEM activities offer a wonderful opportunity to introduce kids to new architecture and places throughout the world as they practice STEM skills. Watch a quick video of this Bridge Building STEM set, and grab a free sample, too.

Our series of STEM building challenges is inspired by Fun-A-Day's world structures STEM set. They've been so popular that we've worked together to add on different sets so we can use them in the block center or maker space all year long.

Watch this quick video to take a peak at the Bridges STEM set in action.

Then read on to find out more information about this set.

Inside the set we've offered both full-page and quarter-page real images of bridges from around the world. Use them to create a flip book. Add them to a pocket chart for kids to choose from, or leave them loose for kids to choose and take to a building station of their choice.

Kids love choosing from the real photographs and finding where each bridge is located on a map, so if you can keep a map handy that's a great addition to these bridge building STEM activities.

Get creative and use the building material of your choice. Here we're using small blocks. Large blocks, LEGO bricks, recycled supplies, magnetic tiles, and pattern blocks all make good options, too.

Extend the learning by having kids record their creations. We love compiling our creations into a class book of structures made throughout the year. You can even take a quick picture of them to attach to student drawings in the book.

TRY A FREE SAMPLE OF THE WORLD BRIDGES STEM SET

Inside the free sample, we've included:

- 4 full-page images of real world bridges

- 4 quarter-page images to make a small Bridges flip-book like the one shown in this post

- 1 of the recording pages for finished bridges

GET THE FULL WORLD BRIDGES STEM SET

Add this collection of famous bridges to your or building block center. Having buildings from around the world leads to discussions about different people and places. Geography lessons can easily spring from these discussions, as can basic engineering concepts.

This set includes:

- 30 full-page images of real world bridges

- Bridges flip-book with 30 color images of bridges from around the world

-"My Bridge Building Plan" template with project instructions

-Make Your Own Bridge Book (3 ways)

-4 versions of recording pages for finished bridges

-6 class book cover options

Or save over 25% when you buy the complete STEM Challenges Series BUNDLE!

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Bridge Building STEM Activities - Fantastic Fun & Learning

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These Bridge Building STEM Activities invite kids to build their own version of world bridges using blocks, LEGO bricks, or any building material of choice. Use them in the preschool block center, maker space, or STEAM bins. Try a free printable sample.

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How can we determine which of these truss or suspension bridge will hold the most weight?

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Students will listen to the text Building Bridges and will identify the three bridge types that will be designed and tested to see which one will holds at least 6 grams.

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Students will work independently or collaboratively to design a truss, suspension or an arch bridge.  Students will record their designs in their STEM journals. Students will share their designs with a classmate.

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Students will work independently or collaboratively to create their designs of the bridge of their choice.

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https://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-and-experiments/build-a-bridge

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Explore the properties of different materials! Test different bridges and figure out which bridge is strongest.

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Students will test the weight limit of their bridges and record their observations in their STEM Journals.  They will look for areas of improvement.

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Students will gather as a group to discuss their designs and their successes and also the areas that could be improved. Questions about strength of the bridge, and other factors such as height, width and the type of materials used will be discussed if students do not include these factors in their small group discussions.

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Students will record the weight that their bridge was able to hold. Students will categorize the data by type of bridge and will represent and interpret the data on a class chart.

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I will use the visuals from the TPT unit and from the Building Bridges book to assist the students with the new vocabulary that will be presented during these lessons.

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/191191946673176267/
I will use this lesson to have students explore building bridges. I will use the vocabulary from the visuals as I model this lesson.

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EASY “London Bridge” STEM Challenge Idea!

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Nov 4, 2021 - Here's a fun and easy idea for a bridge making STEM challenge that you can implement in your classroom, whether your students are in Pre-K,...

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Students will have the opportunity to work with a partner on the design for the bridge. Students that choose to work alone will participate in the group debrief of all of the designs and will work with classmates to evaluate and redesign if necessary.

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As the students are designing and creating their bridges, I will be circulating to ask leading questions if I see that they are struggling with building a bridge that will hold weight.

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Students will take a leadership role as they explain their designs and their results from the project.

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Students will use the engineering design, create, and test a truss or suspension bridge.
Students will record the observations of the weight that their bridges can hold.
Students will use collected data to categorize and represent the data with tally marks or a pictograph.

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