Welcome to the 2016 Gingerbread STEM Community & Makerspace Global Project
Seasons Greetings K-12 Educators!
Calling all K-12 Classrooms Ready to Take on a Delicious STEM/STEAM Challenge:
What's awesome about where you live? What good and services, historical buildings, attractions, or other notable places do you find the most interesting in our community? We'd love to see those places in our STEM/STEAM graham cracker gingerbread engineering challenge. We ask that your students design and construct their own communities and then provide a presentation tour to another class via Skype.
Register by Wednesday, December 9th
Each participating class will do the following:
What to expect when you Skype!
We cannot wait to see what graham cracker creations and friendships are engineered through this inquiry STEM and Speaking/Listening activity! Bring on the STEM/STEAM Creations! :-)
What's awesome about where you live? What good and services, historical buildings, attractions, or other notable places do you find the most interesting in our community? We'd love to see those places in our STEM/STEAM graham cracker gingerbread engineering challenge. We ask that your students design and construct their own communities and then provide a presentation tour to another class via Skype.
Register by Wednesday, December 9th
Each participating class will do the following:
- Register for our project
- Follow the hashtag #gingerbreadSTEM on Twitter.
- Connect with a class and set up a time to Skype or Google Hangout to show off your gingerbread communities.
- Before your Skype call, students will need to engineer an entire community out of graham crackers, icing, snacks, etc. The students will have to determine what resources need to be included in the community (fire station, school, playground, hospital, grocery store, etc.) so each classroom’s design is unique to student input.
- During the Skype call, you and your partner classroom will compare/contrast their engineered community with another and discuss what it is like to live where you do. Be sure to share what makes your community special and unique!
- After the Skype call, share your pictures in our Facebook group or tweet it out on Twitter! Be sure to use our hashtag #GingerbreadSTEM and share your experiences with the project so everyone can see your amazing gingerbread communities!
What to expect when you Skype!
- 10-15 minutes - touring of both graham cracker communities led by students.
- 5-10 minutes of Q&A - Students ask questions about what you do for fun? How warm/cold is it where you live? How big is your school?
- Snap a celebratory photograph of your Skype call and share it on social media.
- OPTIONAL- Classes can choose to host “Hot Chocolate Shop” (instead of a coffee shop) roundtable discussions in pajamas with their partner classrooms.
We cannot wait to see what graham cracker creations and friendships are engineered through this inquiry STEM and Speaking/Listening activity! Bring on the STEM/STEAM Creations! :-)
Project Managers-Who are we?
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Micah Brown
I'm an Instructional Technology Coach in Andover, Kansas who comes early elementary background.
@MBrownEdTech |
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