Balloons Over Broadway STEM Challenges and Thanksgiving Activities Bundle
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Get Ready for the BEST Thanksgiving Week Ever!
Code a parade. Build a Parade Balloon. Test your creativity with Turkey and Balloon Challenges including Thanksgiving finish the picture activities.
Thanksgiving Creativity Challenges are great for engaging students during morning work, early finishers, or add some creative thinking tasks to your Thanksgiving classroom activities!
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade!
Make learning fun with the Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon!
Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!
You can also integrate a green screen for some extra Thanksgiving Fun!
In the Thanksgiving Coding Challenge, students complete the program plan sheet to think through the goal of their program (to make it from start to finish while avoiding all of the obstacles). They test their code with hands on cutouts and fix any bugs.
Material List:
- Scissors
- Balloons
- Tape
- Decorations Such as Ribbons or String
- Paper
- Straws
- Popsicle Sticks
- Markers
- Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
Includes:
- Teacher Instructions
- Vocabulary Words (Computer, Coding, Programmer)
- 6 Thanksgiving Finish the Picture Creativity Challenges
- Disguise a Turkey Creativity Challenge (3 versions for differentiation)
- Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving Balloon Design Creativity Challenge (3 versions for differentiation)
- Latex FREE No Balloons Over Broadway STEM Challenge
- Student Reflection Pages
- STEAM Journal
- Contest Voting Cards and Award
- NGSS and Common Core Standards
- Student Coding Worksheets
- Student Instructions
- Coding Cutouts
- Coding Mat
- Read Aloud Coding Activity
These challenges can work well as centers, STEM Labs, or creative morning work during the Thanksgiving week.
