Start collecting containers: Tupperware, Gladware, Swiffer boxes, card boxes, matchboxes, and take-out containers all make great KID KITS.
Keep changing tasks, materials, and containers. Keep it interesting and surprising to build anticipation and increase engagement.
Once students have mastered the tasks, ask them to crate new challenges.
Students can journal how they solved the challenges or use an idea notebook to collect diagrams and ideas for how they planned out their solutions.
Quick Tower Challenges:
Start sessions telling kids to "Build a Tower"
Distribute one sheet of:
Continue the next session with "Build a Bridge!" and sue the same materials. Decide when and how to incorporate supplies like tape and glue.
Keep changing tasks, materials, and containers. Keep it interesting and surprising to build anticipation and increase engagement.
Once students have mastered the tasks, ask them to crate new challenges.
Students can journal how they solved the challenges or use an idea notebook to collect diagrams and ideas for how they planned out their solutions.
Quick Tower Challenges:
Start sessions telling kids to "Build a Tower"
Distribute one sheet of:
- Aluminum Foil
- Construction paper
- Sandpaper
- Wax paper
- Copy paper
- news paper
- 9 X 12 brown envelope
Continue the next session with "Build a Bridge!" and sue the same materials. Decide when and how to incorporate supplies like tape and glue.