Ancient Rome STEM Challenge Set of 5 Projects
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In The Great Roman Empire STEM Challenge, students complete 5 exciting challenges to help Marcus, a Roman slave, earn his freedom!
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The Great Roman Empire STEM Challenge
This is a set of 5 different activities centered around the story of a slave living in ancient Rome. After hearing the opening storyline, students will read 5 of the slave’s diary entries. Each one will challenge them to design something that will help him earn his freedom and become a Roman citizen.
STEM Challenges in this pack:
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Road Trip: Design a Trunk
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Food for Thought: Create a Fishing Net
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Catch a Breeze: Windmill Challenge
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Now We’re Cooking: Construct a Solar Oven
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Water, Water Everywhere: Build an Aqueduct
These STEM challenges use common materials that you probably already have in your classroom. They incorporate concepts of linear measurement, weight measurement, volume, area, force and motion, heat and light energy, simple machines, and scientific process.
Each challenge in this pack is fully planned out making it easy to get started. They are also highly engaging because students are involved in solving a real-life problem.
Each of the five challenges includes:
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teacher instructions
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student challenge sheet
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planning and design pages
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scoring rubric
There is also a set of team member role cards, design process cards, a master score sheet to find out which group is the most successful at helping the explorers, and associated NGSS standards.
Additional information
| Grade Level | 4th, 5th, 6th |
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| Pages | 79 |
| Resource Type | Activity, Projects |
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How long does each challenge take to complete?
This somewhat depends on the age of your students. I have found that the older students spend more time brainstorming and really planning their designs. They are also more careful when building and testing. Each challenge includes reading part of the storyline. This may take 5 minutes or 15, depending on if your students engage in conversation about it. Then students will need to brainstorm, plan, and collect their materials. The actual building and testing portion of the challenges usually takes about an hour. If you want your students to go back and make improvements to their designs, that will add more time. Overall, I would plan on using two class periods to complete each challenge from start to finish.
Why don’t you list specific quantities for each material?
It is important to remember that STEM is a process that requires brainstorming, hypothesizing, planning, designing, and testing. If you tell students how much to use of certain items, they will use exactly that much. This completely defeats the purpose of STEM and turns it into doing a craft. We want students to think about what would work best to meet their goal. When you tell them exactly what to use and how much, you’re doing the thinking for them. You can certainly limit how much students can take of each material. The challenges are very flexible. They include a list of suggested materials and note which ones are actually required. You can eliminate, limit, or add any other materials you like.
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