Community Building Makerspace Task Cards: STEM Challenge Cards (Maker Space)
Building community in your classroom or media center takes a great deal of intention and focus. Teachers often feel pressed for time by pacing guides and external pressures. Yet, community building and class building activities help form vital relationships in the classroom that help keep behavior issues at bay. For more details and to see inside this resource, click the preview button.
Building Community Makerspace/STEM Challenge Task Cards give busy teachers the tools they need to build a highly engaging collaborative classroom that is inclusive for all types of learners while also allowing student choice in a maker station.
Maker Stations focus on design thinking and allow students to work through the Engineering Design Process as well as focus on building a classroom community through creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, community, and curiosity without taking up a ton of space.
These 10 Makerspace/STEM Challenge Cards or Task Cards allow for a creative Makerspace (Makers Space) environment that emphasizes 21st-century skills and STEAM aspects. Integrating science, technology, engineering, art, and math have never been easier!
Each challenge is tied to a community-building piece of real literature that encourages students to think deeply about the text and think critically about solutions for common problems in the story and in the world around us.
What's Included:
10 Community Building Open-Ended Makerspace/STEM Challenges focused on 10 stories using simple materials
Lesson plans for Makerspace Stations
Makerspace Resources
Engineering Design Process Think Sheets
Digital Version on Google Slides
Digital Choice Board with links to stories read aloud on YouTube
Directions for Digital Use
Books Featured: (Not Included)
First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg (Read on YouTube)
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes (Read on YouTube)
Maybe by Kobi Yamada (Read on YouTube)
Brave Every Day by Tudy Ludwig
Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen (Animated on YouTube)
I Promise by Lebron James (Ready by Lebron James on YouTube)
Back to School Makerspace Task Cards
The World Needs More Purple People by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penford and Suzanne Kaufman
A Teacher's Top Secret Confidential by LaNesha Tabb
A Letter From Your Teacher On the First Day of School by Shannon Olsen
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