STEM Challenges

Boone elementary students enjoyed completing STEM challenges recently. They designed, built, and tested structures with some fun themes. This involved lots of trial and error as students worked together to revise their designs and improve their inventions.

Students in Mrs. Boekman's class built a vehicle for an Elf on a Shelf.

First graders in Mrs. Malin's class were given a mystery bag of recycled supplies and had to create an ornament that could be hung on a tree. 

First graders in Mrs. Carter's class designed and constructed a Christmas tree from pipe cleaners that could stand alone. They recorded their reflections and saved them to their Seesaw portfolios.

Second graders in Mrs. Cook's class designed and built sleds for the Grinch. The sleds had to be able to pull a load of blocks up an incline. Students recorded reflections of their building process using the Seesaw app on their ipads.

Students in Mrs. Caruth's 2nd grade class designed and built snowman houses that had to be constructed from 2-D and 3-D shapes they'd recently learned about in math.

Mrs. Swanson's and Mrs. McPartland's 2nd-grade classes built traps that could catch and hold a gingerbread man. They had to be sturdy enough to pass a toss-test to their partner.

After reading the stories, The Most Magnificent Thing and Rosie Revere, Engineer, third graders in Mrs. Viau's class created a useful invention using only a given number of materials in their mystery bag.

After reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, 4th graders in Mrs. Kubik's class designed and created a transport system for the rats to move a cinderblock.