After The Fall STEM Challenge

This is a ready to use STEM Challenge featuring the story After The Fall. This is a great story for STEM!!! It talks about how if we were afraid to "fall" then we would never see what we are truly capable of!!! I love this mini lesson with kids! I built this lesson off of the story! Students are asked to build a seat for Humpty Dumpty to be able to sit on his wall safely! This is a great STEM engineering challenge. Students must also think about weight, balance, and size as they are using their engineering skills to build Humpty Dumpty a seat for the wall. I have my students for 45 minutes at a time. This lesson gives you information about the book and then it gives you the challenge, suggested materials, and guides you through the process of getting kids ready to complete the challenge. This one is set-up to be used with 2nd grade. However, you could very easily do this lesson with any grade level. The book has a truly great meaning for any age student. My kids loved this book!!! I use the book as the hook and then turn the problem into our STEM challenge. I have my students for 45 minutes at a time. You could possibly extend it into a two or three week lesson activity. This does include a planning sheet. Please feel free to share any feedback. I have more resources if you feel this one was helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my resources!

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This resources includes the following: 

*Links to the story After The Fall (for hooking your students)

*Links to video on learning to overcome hardships

*Challenge

*Constraints

*Materials list

*Planning

*Planning Sheet for printing

*Testing directions

*Student examples

I create these resources to be used in my own classroom! I teach from this very same file! It is a good visual for students and if you were to be observed by administration. It helps to guide you with the lesson and gives the students a visual of what is expected. I work super hard on these lessons because I want my students to be engaged, have fun, and enjoy learning while they are in my classroom! I try to create real-world lessons where students have to engineer and design the solution.
It also gives them something to take home to hopefully explain the "process" of what they learned to adults at home! Please feel free to ask my questions and leave helpful feedback!! Thank you so much!!!