Rescue the Witch Halloween STEM Challenge
This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process and related math word problems into your class with a festive theme.
Grades: Kindergarten - 5th
Teaching Duration: 1 Hour
This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process and related math word problems into your class with a festive theme.
Grades: Kindergarten - 5th
Teaching Duration: 1 Hour
This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process and related math word problems into your class with a festive theme.
Grades: Kindergarten - 5th
Teaching Duration: 1 Hour
lesson overview
This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process and related math word problems into your class with a festive theme. A storyline is provided to add the "next chapter" to the book "Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson, although reading the book is not required. Your students will be excited to work in teams to rescue the kind witch!
This packet includes:
1. Storyline with a Halloween theme
2. Design Challenge and introduction to the Engineering Design Process
3. Student worksheets to complete the challenge
4. Math extension questions aligned to grades 1-4 common core standards in both customary and metric units
5. Grading rubric
6. Reflection questions