Egg Drop Challenge STEM

Easter Egg Drop STEM - This Easter STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this egg drop challenge! Oh no! The children in the remote village need Easter Eggs for their Easter egg hunt. Students must decorate eggs and design a container to drop the eggs to the children. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.

Suggested Plan of Implementation:

Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies. Gather needed materials.
Day One – Introduce and discuss the “Let’s Talk About It – slide. Introduce the Problem and the STEM Challenge.
Day Two – Introduce and discuss the budget options. Use the planning page to illustrate or write out the building idea.
Day Three – “Purchase” supplies for the build. Work on budget. Begin the building process.
Day Four – Work on and complete the structure.
Day Five – Test the structure. Complete the Self-Evaluation Page

This is certainly not the only way to use these materials. They are designed to be flexible and be used to best suit each classroom and teacher based on the ability of the learner, time constraints and teacher preference.

Please check out the preview to get a glimpse of everything that is included.

You will get:

"The Problem" slide to discuss the problem with the students.

"The Challenge" slide to discuss with students

"Let's Talk About It: Air Dropping Cargo" slide to discuss and build background knowledge of air dropping supplies.

NGSS standards

Plan for Implementation

Supply List

Parent Letter requesting supplies

Easter Egg Design Template printable

Student Building Plan (2 versions)

STEM Challenge Journal Page (or stand alone printable)

Budget Page

Budget Spending Page (2 versions for differentiation)

Self-Evaluation


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