STEM • Engineering: Easter Egg Challenge (conductors, insulators, & heat)
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Description
Your students have been hired by the Easter bunny to help stop the chocolate from melting on his deliveries. In this STEM project students will use knowledge of conductors, insulators, and heat. This project contains criteria and constraints, allowing for open-ended design while exploring a specific standard. The materials list includes at least one item that doesn't work, so students can learn through trial and error.
Includes:
· Teacher guide
· Projectable (or printable) scenario page
· Includes alternate secular scenario page
· Student guide page
· STEM group job assignments
· STEM poster
· Discussion questions
· Reflection rubric
Materials Needed:
Teacher Materials:
• Heating pad and lamp with
100-watt light OR hot sunny day
Student Materials:
• Plastic egg
• Hershey kiss (unwrapped)
• Foam
• Felt
• Cotton
• Styrofoam
• Tin foil
• Yarn
• Brown bag
• Scissors, tape, glue
Standards:
· NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1
· NGSS 3-5-ETS1-2
SC.4.P.11.2 Identify common materials that conduct heat well or poorly.
Important Notes:
· This STEM project requires a variety of materials to keep it open ended. Please see the material list above.
· This file is not editable.
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