LEGO Challenge Cards
Use LEGOS and these challenge cards to engage your student is building creativity! Awesome fun and enriching activities. |
Build a LEGO Vehicle
Use LEGO blocks to construct a vehicle. Tell what vehicle you built and what it does. This can be applied to many concepts. The picture is an example of a space vehicle that would explore a planet. This activity is easily adaptable to meet the needs and curriculum of your students. |
Build a Catapult
Using rubber bands, craft sticks, and plastic spoons to construct a catapult. Launch pom poms, marshmallows, or other items. Measure how far the items are launched and compare with other catapults. Experiment with catapult designs or simply let students design and build their own! Graph distances as a class and develop mathematical question and answer skills.
Make A Sprout House
A different approach to growing seeds in bags and cups. Students can design and build their house from sponges and use these as the base for growing and observing seeds. Have students practice measuring with spoons and rulers or with nonstandard measures.
Rainbow Butterflies
Color Chromatography Butterflies
1. Choose one marker to experiment with. (Black and Brown are most exciting) 2. Take one coffee filter and place on top of newspaper or other material used to protect the table. 3. Find the center of the coffee filter and use ONE marker color to draw a thick ring, about the size of a quarter, around the center point. 4.Write the color name in the center of the color ring with a pencil. 5. Fold the coffee filter in half. Fold in half again to form a cone shape. 6. Fill the glass about ¼ full with water. 7. Pull apart the cone shape coffee filter so it balances right on the glass with the tip of the filter just touching the water. DONOT LET THE MARKER CIRCLE GO IN THE WATER. 8. Let sit and watch what happens as the water begins to flow up the paper. 9. After water reaches edge of filter, remove and spread out to dry. 10. Observe the results. 11. Repeat with different colors Now, turn your color creations into beautiful butterflies! |
Egg Drop Challenge
Students can work in groups and use recycled materials to create a container to protect a raw egg. Work as a team to design and build. Test container by dropping from a set height. Materials: recycled materials tape glue raw egg newspaper, cotton balls, bubble wrap, etc. straws, craft sticks, pipe cleaners Science: Bring in the concepts of gravity. Art: Encourage creativity in design and decor Engineering: Design and construction of container Extend by including rules such as no parachutes or size restrictions. Adjust according to your students’ needs. LEGO Brain Puzzles
This Tetris like activity requires students to plan, build, and write the solution for a LEGO puzzle. Check it out! frugalfun4boys.com/2015/08/30/lego-brain-puzzles/ Balancing Towers
Students use cubes, craft sticks, and small cups to build a variety of towers exploring the concepts of balance and counter balance. Build the tallest tower, build towers with protruding parts, build links between towers, the possibilities are endless. |