Engineering Curiosity: STEM Activities & Challenges For Read Aloud & Makerspace

Focusing on curiosity has never been more engaging or needed in schools with lots of testing and strict pacing guides. This Makerspace STEM Story Station resource is filled with 10 Curiosity STEM activities that focus on 10 different books with curiosity as the key theme. Your students will work through the Engineering Design Process and think critically! A curiosity poster is included.

Curiosity 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 the perfect curiosity piece of real literature that encourages students to think deeply about the text and think critically about solutions for common problems in the stories and in the world around us.

What's Included:

• 10 Curiosity 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) (Every title is available as a read-aloud on YouTube and is linked to a read-aloud through the digital choice board.)

• Questions Asked by Jostein Gaarder and Akin Duzakin

• The Looking Book by PK Hallinan

• Ask Me by Bernard Waber

• The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

• Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty

• Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems by Carey Sookocheff

• Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum

• What If by Samantha Berger

• Questions, Questions by Marcus Pfister

• Wilford Gordon McDonald Patridge by Mem Fox

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My hope is to provide you with tools that encourage a love of learning and thinking while giving you back some much-needed TIME!