2021 GINGERBREAD STEM COMMUNITY PROJECT
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Construction Tips
and Makerspace Connections

Primary Classroom Shortcut

We HIGHLY recommend using empty cereal boxes, milk cartons, and other small cardboard as the structures for your buildings.  Then use a hot glue gun or royal icing to glue the graham crackers to the boxes for a gingerbread appearance.   For example, check out this Target store created by 2nd grade students.  There is a cardboard box as the base structure, and then students used colored royal icing to adhere the graham crackers.
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Makerspace Challenges

For classes who want to make the construction a little more challenging, check out this Allrecipes.com video showing how to build graham cracker gingerbread houses.
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Code a Sphero and drive it through your town
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Design and construct the community with MinecraftEDU
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Light up your community using Makey Makey
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WEBLINK - Makey Makey Simple Circuits Challenge

Try adding paper circuits to your Gingerbread community 
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WEBLINK - Holiday Paper Circuits

Or create circuits with littleBits
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WEBLINK - Gingerbread Hack: a littleBits invention

You could even use Squishy Circuits for Gingerbread people in your community. 
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WEBLINK - Squishy Circuit People Instructions

A great coding challenge for your Gingerbread Community would be to create an Ozobot touring path. Challenge students to create a "walking tour" of the community using the Ozobots as the robot tour guide.
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WEBLINK - Drawing with Ozobot

Another twist on the gingerbread community idea would be to create everything out of cardboard and use art skills to create the gingerbread appearance. 
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WEBLINK - Tiny Cardboard Houses

For High School students, a REAL challenge would be to design and program an Arduino Musical Christmas Light Program
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WEBLINK - Arduino Powered Musical Lights from Instructables

Or consider make your community virtual using CoSpacesEDU or Scratch! 
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