Chinese New Year STEM Challenge Task

Get your classroom excited about celebrating Lunar New Year with a creative STEM challenge! This engaging STEAM activity encourages teamwork, creative thinking, and problem solving as teams collaborate to set a budget and use their resources to create a dragon dance display.

Students will enjoy working on this STEM activity by having to work within a budget and time frame restrictions. This encourages great team building and group work skills as they need to work together to chose appropriate materials and calculate their costs along the way.

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In this pack you will get:

• Teacher information page
• Chinese New Year STEM (2 varieties) $100 and $1,000 budget to cater for different abilities.
• Coupons for materials needed. Provides excellent discussion and negotiation.
• Group challenge notes
• Student grid graphing paper for design
• Student writing printable. (2 varieties)
• Student reflection sheets.
• Assessment grid suitable for self/ peer or teacher evaluation

These tasks can be used in many ways, including:

• STEM lessons
• Special theme days
• Back to school night
• Peer/ cross age learning with other classes or grade levels
• To create interesting classroom displays
• Integration of different subjects (Science, Maths, Technology, Art, English)

Copyright information:

Purchasing this product grants permission for use by one teacher in his or her own classroom. If you would like to share with others, please purchase an additional license.