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21st Century Skills: Minute to Win it Challenge

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21st Century Skills: Minute to Win it Challenge

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Students participate in minute to win it challenges. One student does the challenge while their group watches. Students can even do a minute to win it challenge that uses art supplies or they create an art project using the supplies they get. The possibilities are endless. Students use their 21st century skills to participate in the challenges.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2013/10/emminute-win-item-your-classroom?eml=Teachers%2Fe%2F20131014%2FFacebook%2F%2F%2FSMO%2FTeachers%2FTopTeaching%2FBrianSmith%2F

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21st Century Skills: Design Your Own App

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21st Century Skills: Design Your Own App

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Students create their own app. They get a paper to design what it will do and create a screenshot of what the app will look like. Teachers can hang up the designs on a builtin board or check into actually designing one of the apps. The students could vote on the best one. Students are using their 21st century skills to create their own app.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Design-Your-Own-App-A-STEAM-Activity-2266401

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Students get an egg (it can be hard boiled or just a shell). They get to color and design the egg. Then they build a car out of legos. Next the students get to test their designs. Students are using engineering skills to build their lego cars.
http://www.planetsmarty.com/2014/04/lego-egg-racers.html

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This activity can be modified for young students. Students learn about bridges and then they get to build their own using popsicle sticks and other materials. Students use their skills of how bridges work to build their own bridge.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=1509

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Creativity or Innovative Thinking: Pipe Cleaner Challenge

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Creativity or Innovative Thinking: Pipe Cleaner Challenge

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Students can do this individually or in groups. They create anything they want out of the materials they are given. This is great because it is not your typical art project and it gives students the chance to be very creative. Students use their knowledge of the world around them to build their object.
http://www.housingaforest.com/pipe-cleaner-challenge/

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Creativity or Innovative Thinking: Inventor's Box

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Creativity or Innovative Thinking: Inventor's Box

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Students can build their very own inventor's box. They could even decorate it to be their own. After the box is created, students can fill it with items that can be used for inventions. Such as school supplies, egg carts, toilet paper rolls, etc. Then teachers can give their students time to use what is in their inventor's box to create an invention. This invention can be something that solves a problem, it could be a new tool that people could use in the future, etc. http://theeducatorsspinonit.com/2014/09/build-inventors-box-stem-activity-for.html

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Students explore the concept of gravity through art. Students are learning about the world around them. Gravity is a great topic for young students to explore!
http://fun-a-day.com/preschool-art-with-watercolors/

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Space!
Students imagine that they are traveling to a planet in space. They find out what the planet is like and what they think they would encounter on the way there. Students learn about what is beyond the world around them.

https://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/wish-you-were-here-lesson-plan/?utm_campaign=2014_evergreen_ahalogy&utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest#_a5y_p=3412266

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Students create a painting of a frog and then they find frog facts. Next the teacher takes pictures of all the paintings and records the students saying their facts using the app Chatterkid. Then the teacher uploads it to an app called the Book Creator app. Students are learning about the world and technology around them.
http://mrstsfirstgradeclass-jill.blogspot.com/2014/11/frog-facts-in-story-form-on-ipad.html

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Science Topic Content: Weather and Art!  

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Science Topic Content: Weather and Art!  

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Students create an art project using cotton balls to represent the different types of clouds. This project allows students to learn about clouds and what makes them unique. They are learning about the world around them, while participating in a fun science content art project. http://txgranolamom.blogspot.com/2012/03/weather-and-art.html