A Letter from Your Teacher on the First Day of School Activity Zipline Challenge
A Letter from Your Teacher on the First Day of School Activity Zipline Challenge
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In A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Back to School Activity, students write a "letter to my teacher."
They learn the parts of a letter. Student design and create a device that can hold the letters and transport the letters across the classroom on a zipline.
Perfect companion to the book A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School by Shannon Olsen.
The Engineering Design Process:
In this back to school STEM activity, students follow the six-step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve.
Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.
Aligns to Common Core and NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)!
Material List:
- pencils
- envelopes
- markers and crayons
- string (for the zipline)
- materials for building zipline structures (e.g., paper clips, straws, tape, cardboard)
- A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School by Shannon Olsen (Recommended)
Includes:
- Teacher Instructions (with example photos)
- Student STEM Journal
- Student Instructions
- STEM Challenge
- Letter Writing Instructions
- Welcome Posters
- NGSS Standards
- TEKS
- Common Core Standards
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