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STORM SHELTERS Challenge
A Third Grade STEM Project
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Challenge A huge storm is coming and you have to build a shelter to protect us from the rain and wind! But what are you going to use to build the shelter? That’s the tricky part!
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Building Material You will make your storm shelter out of clay…
BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR OWN CLAY… WITHOUT A RECIPE!
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Clay Making Menu You will be given $20 to spend on materials. You must budget the money to purchase the materials that you need. You have the following materials to work with… Flour Salt Oil Water Each material costs $1 per scoop.
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Keeping a Recipe You will be given a recipe card to keep a record of the recipe for your clay. You must be careful to write down everything that you put in your clay.
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Project Schedule Storm Shelter Wall
Today: -Introduce lesson -Create dough, keeping track of your budget and recipe -Post recipe on wall -Build shelter Next Time: -Test shelter -Write improvement plan -Post pictures of dwelling along with improvement plan on wall Storm Shelter Wall
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Testing We will test your dwelling to make sure it can stand up to wind and water weathering in the following ways: -Wind Weathering: The Fan Test! -Water Weathering: The Strainer Test!
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Why are we doing this? S: Weather, weathering and erosion, how earth changes T: Publishing results online, social media, web etiquette E: Design process, making improvements based on results M: Measurement, money, fractions
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