Colonial American STEM: Create a Toy or Game
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Description
This STEM project explores how children in Colonial America used the "technology" of the time to create toys and games! You provide materials for students to design and build their own game or toy in a 1/2 hour time limit. This STEM's goal is to explore how children used their creativity and materials (or technology) available in their time. All the materials you need for documenting student progress are found inside!
Look What's Inside the Colonial American Create a Toy or Game 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
- Rubric for grading
- Sample Projects
Student Pages:
- A Problem Description Page
- Project Criteria and Constraints
- ASK Page "How can we create a toy or game from the technology used by Colonial children?"
- 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 PLAY! Color page
- IMAGINE student work page
- ASK student work page to record information about Colonial Toys
- PLAN student work page
- CREATE 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 Technology Problem slide
- ASK slide
- ASK slide video page
- IMAGINE slide
- PLAN slide
- CREATE slide
- TIME TO PLAY slide
- IMPROVE slide
- Project quote slide
Suggested Materials:
Corn husks, marbles. playing cards, yarn, sticks, rocks, chalk (or chalk rocks if going outside), wooden balls (or billiard type balls), wooden pegs, and anything else your class can think of!
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