STEM Christmas Activity: Elf Zip Line (Engineering Design)

$5.75

A fun Christmas STEM Challenge for the winter holidays with your Elf! Students will design a zip line vehicle to save an elf from a high place.

Grades: 2nd - 9th

Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

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A fun Christmas STEM Challenge for the winter holidays with your Elf! Students will design a zip line vehicle to save an elf from a high place.

Grades: 2nd - 9th

Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

A fun Christmas STEM Challenge for the winter holidays with your Elf! Students will design a zip line vehicle to save an elf from a high place.

Grades: 2nd - 9th

Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

I used this resource as a holiday activity with my gifted students. They had so much fun designing and building their ziplines. I will definitely use this again.
— Meaghan H.

lesson overview

A fun Christmas STEM Challenge for the winter holidays! Students will design a zip line vehicle to save an elf from a high place. This hands-on activity is an engaging design challenge that allows students to work in teams, apply the engineering design process, and connect math topics to real-world applications. Students will design a zip line to help rescue the elf!

Elf STEM: Zipline Adventure Activity Guide:

  • Detailed teachers guide with links to resources

  • Student handouts to guide them through the design process

  • Student recording sheet for each step of the process

  • Editable digital STEM journal and note to families

  • Grading rubric

  • Math connection problems including angles, ratios, geometry, and graphing (in customary and metric units)

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