Chinese New Year STEM: Create a Noisemaker

This STEM project explores what everyone want to hear during Chinese New Year-NOISE! You provide materials for students to design and try their own noisemakers in a 1/2 hour time limit. This STEM's goal is to explore how sound energy works. All the materials you need for documenting student progress are found inside!



Look What's Inside the Chinese New Year Noisemakers STEM!

For the Teacher
• Notes for the Teacher including Prep Work, Material Suggestions and instructions
for the video that students watch from the online source

Student Pages:
• A Problem Description Page
• Project Criteria and Constraints
• ASK Page "Is there a way to create more noise for Chinese New Year?"
• ASK Video link page
• IMAGINE Direction page
• PLAN Directions with further criteria
• CREATE Direction page
• IMPROVE Directions page where students are prompted to make improvements.
• ALL of the above pages in a COLOR option
• TIME TO Make Some Noise! Color page
• IMAGINE student work page
• ASK student work page to record information about Sound
• ASK student page with guided information to fill out about Sound
• PLAN student work page
• CREATE student work page
• DESIGN STYLE AND OBSERVATION student work page
• IMPROVE student work page
• REFLECT student work page where students answer reflection questions
• QUOTE page in black and white
• QUOTE page in color

PowerPoint Includes :
• Title slide similar to the cover of the product
• A Noisy Problem slide
• ASK slide
• ASK slide video page
• IMAGINE slide
• PLAN slide
• CREATE slide
• TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE slide
• IMPROVE slide
• Project quote slide

Materials suggested for this project include scissors, liquid glue, staplers, beans, rice, dry cereal, plastic cups, paper towel tubes, jingle bells, fabric, embroidery hoops, paper plates, duct tape, ribbon, tongue depressors, popsicle sticks, paper, straws, or anything else you can dream up! (All items are not needed that are listed here. Use what works for your class to make NOISE!)

Read all about this STEM at my Blog!

This is THE SAME STEM as my New Year's Eve Noisemakers, just with a different theme!


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