Snowflake Bentley Read Aloud Winter STEM Centers and Activities

Learn about snowflakes with 6 winter STEAM centers!

The perfect resource for elementary classrooms, school-wide STEM nights, and STEM clubs. It combines the magic of snowflakes with the excitement of STEM education, fostering critical thinking, art, engineering, problem-solving, and creativity.

It's the perfect companion to Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Author) and Mary Azarian (Illustrator).

Why STEAM centers?

STEM centers expose students to a lot of different ideas, materials, and challenges in a short amount of time. These challenges keep the attention of students and allow them to pick up those valuable STEM skills little by little as they work through each challenge.

STEAM centers also give students the flexibility to work independently or with a partner or small group.

How to use STEAM Centers:

Each center can be used as a whole class STEAM challenge or you may choose the activities you want students to complete and have them rotate through the activities as centers. If you are doing these challenges as centers we recommend students work for 10-15 minutes per center.

Includes:

• Teacher Instructions
• Center Place cards for tables
• STEM Worksheets
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Examples for each activity
• 6 Winter STEM challenges
• NGSS Standards
• Common Core Standards
• TEKs Standards

Center 1: Play Dough Snowflakes

Suggested Materials:

• printable cards (included)
• building mat
• play dough

Center 2: Build a Wooden Snowflake

Suggested Materials:

• printable cards (Included)
• KEVA planks or popsicle sticks

Center 3: Pattern Block Snowflakes

Suggested Materials:

• printable cards (3 levels of difficulty included)
• pattern blocks

Center 4: Paper Snowflakes

Suggested Materials:

• copies of snowflake templates (Included)
• scissors
• tape
• stapler

Center 5: Pipe Cleaner Snowflakes

Suggested Materials:

• building mat (Included)
• pipe cleaners
• beads (optional)

Center 6: Snowflake Creativity Challenges

Suggested Materials:

• creativity challenge pages (Included)
• pencils
• colored pencils, crayons, markers (optional)

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