It looks like our deep freeze is over and it is now time to get out and enjoy winter in NB. For the January K/1 STEM Challenge we are encouraging your students to channel their inner engineers to build their very own snowman.

This could be done indoors, with items from your STEM Bins, other classroom materials (paper, marshmallows and toothpicks) or take your students to the great outdoors to build authentic snowmen; complete with corncob pipes and button noses!

As always, we encourage students to work in groups and be creative with their creations.

In order to bring literacy into this activity we suggest reading “Snowmen at Night”, “The Biggest Snowman”, “Frosty the Snowman” or any other snowman book you may have in your library, in order to inspire students’ structures.  

This challenge will end on Tuesday, January 30^th. In order to enter this challenge please click on the following link and enter your information:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmv_Nz8HbMJnLmOTpZQJ5J-zqb-2-tDmAmtN0hLTjVK72e4Q/viewform?c=0&w=1 

Please remember to post pictures and videos to your teacher page in order to be entered into the draw.

We have been overwhelmed by the number of classrooms entering the challenges each month. It is so inspiring to see students engaged in hands-on learning and using their imaginations while enhancing literacy and STEM.