Christmas STEM Challenges Bundle: Elf, Santa, and More!
Vivify STEM
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Grade Levels
1st - 8th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
NGSSMS-ETS1-2
NGSS3-5-ETS1-3
NGSSMS-ETS1-4
NGSS3-5-ETS1-1
NGSSMS-ETS1-1
Formats Included
- Zip
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my students enjoyed using these lessons. we did not use them all before christmas but the ones we did were fun and engaging.
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Elf Unplugged Coding Activity
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Are you in need of year-round STEM activities? This growing bundle includes ALL Vivify K-12 STEM lessons from team challenges, engineering design, semester-long STEM units, research projects, and more! Purchase everything for 20% off individual products! Here is a sample of what is included: Stage 1Price $990.24Original Price $1237.80Save $247.56
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Christmas STEM Activities Bundle!
Grab this growing bundle of Christmas engineering activities to bring the holiday spirit to your classroom! The bundle includes activities for your Elf plus additional engineering challenges!
Science connections covered in the Christmas STEM Challenges Bundle:
- Simple Pendulums
- Friction
- Center of Gravity
- Engineering Design Process
- Data collection
- Pneumatic systems
- Circuits
Engineering Activities Included:
- Zipline Adventure: Students create a zipline to carry the elf down a string. Includes a distance learning digital STEM journal for Google Slides & Flipgrid.
- Sledding Adventure: Students create a vehicle to carry the elf down a slope
- Pendulum Adventure: Students create a safety harness to protect the elf and a candy cane as they swing and crash into the wall.
- Elf Toy Coding Activity: Students are an elf that needs to program a robot to help build a toy in Santa's workshop. Distance learning and classroom version included.
- Pneumatic Device Challenge: Santa’s elves are quickly wrapping presents to get everything ready for Christmas Eve. But some of the presents are really heavy. Santa needs your help to lift the presents and place them in his sleigh!
- Christmas Transportation Device Challenge: Santa needs your help! The elves built a really heavy present that they are unable to move! Your mission is to design a way to transport the heavy present from Santa’s Workshop to his sleigh. Students will learn about circuits and use a coin cell battery and vibrating motor to transport “presents” across a distance.
- Christmas Toy Factory: Help Santa move toys into his sleigh with simple machines!
Each lesson guide includes:
- Detailed educator guide with additional resources
- Student handouts with science concepts
- Editable digital and printed student STEM journals
- Real-world career connections
- Student packet for recording data and ideas for each step of the engineering design process
- Science and math extension activities.
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Standards
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NGSSMS-ETS1-2
Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
NGSS3-5-ETS1-3
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
NGSSMS-ETS1-4
Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.
NGSS3-5-ETS1-1
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
NGSSMS-ETS1-1
Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
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