Teaching STEM through Fairy Tales- Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Teaching STEM through Fairy Tales focuses on introducing primary students to STEM, but can be used for any age group.  In Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldilocks ventures into the home of the three bears, tasting their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and sleeping in their beds.  As she is trying out chairs, she accidentally breaks the chair of Baby Bear.  This week’s challenge is to design a chair that is “just right”.

In the Teaching STEM through Fairy Tales series, we further examine the connection between literature- specifically fairy tales- and STEM.  Each featured favorite fairy tale (try saying that one three times fast), makes a connection to STEM and ties the design challenge to the NGSS Engineering Design Standards.

For this challenge, students need to remember that Baby Bear is the smallest of the bears, so therefore, they are working to design the smallest chair possible while still meeting the criteria.  Materials are also limited, so students will need to think carefully about how to design and construct the best chair.

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