Challenge

     Help students learn to think critically, collaborate and communicate by providing challenges they can choose to complete.
​     These challenges and challenge boxes have only high level guidance, allowing students to use the design cycle to plan, design, test and redo as they work collaboratively (or individually) to complete the challenge.
     A student Challenge Worksheet is provided below so students can document their efforts.

:Challenges @ ICE

Try your hand at Challenges (keep record in your Innovators Passport or Challenge Sheet)
  • Rube Goldberg - using all the parts, setup a working marble run. Mark down how many fails before you succeed.  How did you do? 
  • Marble run - can you create the slowest marble run? the fastest marble run?
  • Mosaic Board: Start or finish an image created with bottle caps
  • Strawbee Challenge:  Make or build something eg pyramid, cube, catapult, tower etc.
  • Cardboard Construction:  Using pentagon shapes, build a work of art or a structure.
  • Games:  Try your hand at shooting a basket, making a goal on the hockey floor
  • Make it! at any station - and record your efforts in the Innovators Passport.

Challenges

eli whitney rube Goldberg

 Design and Invention, Force and Motion
Meets Next Generation Science Standard, MS-PS2
https://www.eliwhitney.org/7/workshop/projects/whitney-relay

Bottle Cap Mosaic Board

Build a picture or add to one.  Symmetry challenge:  Build a 1/2 of a picture - challenge is to complete the picture. 

Use plywood, paint, nails and rubberbands to create your own board:  https://goo.gl/MUqm0D

Marble run
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Build your own marble run based on materials you have available. 

Strawbees Challenge

Lego challenges

Daily, weekly or monthly lego challenge ideas.

Cardboard Construction Kit

Cut your own Pentagon Shapes and create a construction kit. Let students create a sculpture.
..Can you use all the pieces?
​..How tall is your structure?

Hockey & Basketball Games

Hockey uses copper tape and buzzer for scoring. 

Catapult Basketball hoop uses aluminum foil in the cup and the ball to set off buzzer.

Challenge box

Challenge Box:
4 ENGINEERING challenges: 
cubes, cups, sticks

Challenge event Night

For a STEM/Maker night, choose a mix of stations: engineering design challenges, maker stations, science experiments, math activities, programming / robotics games, and team-building challenges.  Coupons for completion of challenge can be redeemed for snacks and drinks. 
Sample activities above,  and you can purchase a full guide here. 
from: http://www.vivifystem.com/blog/2016/3/15/3wvfy1w7ucnhrpgh5yphoyc8h9dw19

​Challenge Box: 
​Build a free moving car with small wheels and one with big wheels

Challenge: Which car will go faster or farther?
Prove it.
Modify it:  Change your design or wheels.  What happens?

Challenges & Challenge Cards

Challenge Card Holder

Lego

 EV3

Bee-Bot

Little Bits

Makey Makey

Challenge Cards:

52 challenge cards:James Dyson Foundation

52 STEAM challenges from James Dyson Foundation.  tested by kids – and thought up by the design engineers at Dyson

Can you complete all the challenges? 
Gr 2-6 : http://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/students/2nd-6th-grade/
Gr 7-12: 
​http://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/students/7th-12th-grade/_
jdysonf-challenge-cards.zip
File Size: 6877 kb
File Type: zip
Download File

STem-Science Gr 3-12 Gallery

Challenge Student worksheet

Challenge Student Worksheet:  https://goo.gl/6hLsOj

Challenge Student Roles:

Resources:

BP Challenge Starters Box _
Lego Challenge Quests:  http://legoquestkids.blogspot.ca/2012/10/final-challenge-quest-52.html
Stem Challenges: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/stem-challenges/
James Dyson Challenges: ​http://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/resources/challenge-cards/