No-Prep Craft Stick Makerspace Challenges

No Prep Makerspace Activities are perfect for busy librarians and staff who run makerspaces. Just print the challenges and leave them out for anyone to use without additional prep!

Are you looking for ways to build community or keep the community going strong? Are you searching for ways to engage students in collaborative problem solving? These no prep makerspace activities are for you!

Just print out the task cards or station directions and put them out! All you need to add are craft sticks (or ice pop sticks).

If you want students to deliberately work through the engineering and design process as they work together, provide them with a challenge journal or recording sheet. Both are perfect ways for groups to record their progress and thinking as they collaboratively work through a challenge.

For a bit more control of what students do, and when they do it during a challenge, use the included slideshow to facilitate the activity!

This product has 71 total pages & slides, and includes:

• Four (4) Craft Stick Makerspace Challenge Station Signs and Task Cards to build community through collaboration (18 pages)
  • 1 station sign per page, and 4 task cards per page
  • PDF file format
  • 8.5″ x 11″ paper
  • Portrait and landscape versions
  • Color and black & white versions
• Four (4) Journals and Recording Sheets to support students as they work through the design process (20 pages)
  • 1 journal + 1 recording sheet for each challenge
  • Each journal is 4 pages; each recording sheet is 1 page.
  • PDF file format
  • 8.5″ x 11″ paper
  • Journals are portrait orientation; Recording sheets are landscape orientation
  • Black and white only
• 29-slide Lesson Presentation to facilitate challenges with step-by-step directions
  • Editable in Canva.com with a free account
  • If you don’t want to get a Canva account, the slides can be viewed, but not edited.
• Teacher Notes or Directions to help you set up and get organized. (4 pages)

No formal lesson plan is included.

You are going to love how easy it is to engage students in the design process. At the same time, all you have to do is print and pull together craft sticks for students to use.

Standards Addressed:

AASL National School Library Standards – See the AASL Standards Framework for Learners to view full text.

• Collaborate – B.1.
• Explore – B.1.
• Engage – C.2.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards –
© Copyright 2010 National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.4. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.4. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.6.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.4. – CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.6.

 

Terms of Use
© Vr2lTch – By purchasing this product, you receive a one-user license. Copying or distributing to others is prohibited.  ​See our Site Terms of Use for more information. For teacher-librarians: You may use this product with all of your classes and students.

​Questions before buying?
​If the free preview file does not answer your question, you can contact us through ​​this link with questions.