Thanksgiving Day Dinner Table
STEM CHALLENGE
Challenge Assigned:
Can you make a dinner table large enough to hold all of Thanksgiving Day food (without overlapping)?
Students were given a copy of the paper food, dominoes and popsicle sticks. The children were to use the dominoes as the legs of the table and popsicle sticks as the top of the table.
Although the task was challenging, the children work cooperatively with partners. They had to persevere and try different designs when their plan didn't work. The biggest obstacle for the children was building the table large enough for the food to fit.
Vocabulary terms were introduced:
balance
perimeter
area
surface
Engineering skills, science skills involving weight and balance, stablility, surface and area, as well as mathematical reasoning were used in this challenge.
We hope you can try this challenge at home and let us know of your successes or failures. Comment below to let us know!
In Kindergarten, we really want the children to know that with failure comes success if you never stop working at it. Keep on trying and looking forward. It's the POWER of YET!
*This Thanksgiving Day STEM Challenge was created by Brooke Brown.
