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Teaching STEM through Fairy Tales

Teaching STEM through Fairy Tales: Stone Soup

By December 11th, 2023No Comments
In the story of Stone Soup, a weary traveler wanders into the village and is told that there is no food to eat.  So, the traveler brings out his cooking pot and, with the unwitting help of the villagers, makes stone soup.  In this challenge, students will design and build a cooking pot that will hold the most soup.

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.

The teacher can choose for student to work in teams, pairs, or complete the challenge individually (if you have enough mini-marshmallows!). This is also a great lesson to incorporate estimation and/or volume calculations.

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