Fun STEM Activities for Elementary Students on Valentine's Day
Candy Heart STEM That is Easy to Implement
This is the third installment of the "Pick the Path STEMventure" series. I wrote a short story about Cupid for Valentine's Day. Don't worry, there's no lovey-dovey stuff. In the story, Cupid is helping kids and animals work through some quarrels. Each choice leads to a STEM challenge, so that in completing the story students will complete 3-4 challenges. The story not only guides them through the engineering design process, it includes design constraints and areas for them to fill in their thoughts, plans, and testing data.One Challenge All Students Complete - Unplugged Coding
- a candy heart tower
- a candy heart maze
- a container that holds candy hearts
- a parachute for Cupid
- a bow for Cupid (optional, for any class that has a serious case of shoot-your-eye-out-itis)
Other ideas for Candy Heart STEM
- Create a pattern with the hearts and have someone else decipher it. Is it by color? By saying? Something else?
- Create a candy heart launcher!
- Set up an experiment to try and figure out the fastest way to dissolve candy hearts. Is it with cold water? Warm water? Water with baking soda in it? Milk (if no allergies)? Something else? Get ideas from students and see if they have any creative solutions to try!
Find this STEM Resource on Teachers pay Teachers
If you would like to use the story and printables I've created, you can find them on Teachers pay Teachers at this link Valentine's Day STEM:or save these ideas for later by pinning this on Pinterest:
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