Building Bricks STEM St. Patrick's Day Design Challenge

lesson overview

Building Bricks STEM - 30 St. Patrick's Day Design Challenges

Get inspired by the luck of the Irish with these St. Patrick's Day Building Bricks Challenge Cards! Students will first construct their landscape (either using building bricks or paper) receiving one of the 30 challenge cards to solve a problem or add a creation to their landscape! They might need to build a castle, a boat, a four-leaf clover, and more!

This activity works well as an introduction to the engineering design process, in centers, or a Makerspace.

What's Included:

• Teacher Instructions and Slides

• Real-world Connection: St. Patrick's Day

• STEM Career Connection: Botanist

• 30 editable challenge or task cards

• Engineering Design Process handout

Materials needed:

• Building bricks

• Paper plates or building brick base plates

• Construction paper (optional)

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