Description
Looking for a FUN winter STEM activity to engage your students in using academic skills to solve real-world problems? This will enhance learning about winter sports during the Olympics 2022 this year. Try this ice skating-themed activity where students will learn about ice skating, skates, magnets, number patterns, force, and motion while designing a magnetic ice skater that follows number patterns around a rink.
► What is in this download?
Focus: Design, Reading, Comprehension, Writing, Science & Math
- Pg. 1 Cover
- Pg. 2 Table of Contents
- Pg. 3 STEM Ice Skating (Teacher Info.)
- Pg. 4 Suggested Lesson Plan
- Pg. 5 OBJECTIVES
- Pg. 6 5E Lesson Plan
- Pg. 7 Journal Cover (Optional)
- Pg. 8 KWL Chart for Ice Skating
- Pg. 9 & 10 Ice Skating, Reading & Comprehension Questions
- Pg. 11 The PROBLEM – Students are given a problem to solve.
- Pg. 12 DESIGN IT! Decide how to make a Magnetic Skater (after Sorting)
- Pg. 13 REFLECTION (for after the STEM Challenge)
- Pg. 14-17 Primary and Intermediate Writing Paper for Optional Writing Extension Activity
- Pg. 18 Rubric for Writing
- Pg. 19 Sorting Mat for Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Items
- Pg. 20-23 Speed Skater and Hockey Players Stand-Ups (in color and blk/white)
- Pg. 24 STEM RUBRIC
- Pg. 25-32 Different Number Pattern Ice Rink Mats (for moving your magnetic skater) Gameboard Style and challenging non-Gameboard.
- Pg. 33 Letter to Parents for making a Home Connection
- Pg. 24 The Problem (Optional Page to add your own materials and time if you have different objects to test with magnets)
- Pg. 35-37 Answer Keys
- Pg. 38-41 PHOTOS of Product in Action
- Pg. 42 Credits
Materials needed to complete the entire unit:
magnets, objects that are magnetic and non-magnetic, tape
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Audrey M. –
My STEM students thought this was the coolest project! They were highly engaged and loved figuring out the best material to use to make the skater skate smoothly around the ice! (Originally shared on my TpT store.)
Ellen K. –
I needed an Ice Skating activity for our STEM Winter Olympics challenge and this gave me the basic idea for how to do that, (Originally shared on my TpT store.)
Rachel H. –
My students loved this! Such a cool activity to use for our science unit on magnets! (Originally shared on my TpT store.)