Ideas for engineering at-home

Continuity of Learning Elementary School Resources

Table of Contents

March 16-20: Blanket Fort, Pop-up Card, Shadow Puppet Theater

March 23-27: Paper Plane, Shape Tower, Space Origami

March 30-April 3: Create a Storyboard, Engineer an Invention

April 13-17: Color Spinner, Systems Thinking, repeat puppet theater

April 20-24 #FCPSEarthWeek: Recyclable Marble Run, Wearable Paper Beads, Trash Grabber, Rock Art, Plant Terrarium

April 27-May 1: Setting Goals, Shape Walk, Sensory Bag

May 4-8: Questioning with Storytelling, Test and Improve in Engineering Design with Toy Ramps, + repeat space origami to connect with grade 7 language arts readings about Mars in packets mailed home

May 11-15: Engineer the strongest bridge with the fewest materials.

May 18-22: Career exploration; Use simple machines to engineer a moving sculpture; Engineer a jigsaw; Engineer a pop-up card.

May 26-29: Engineer a robot and explore robotics careers. Get inspired by toys to create new inventions. Use music and #CSinFCPS to journal about how you feel throughout the day. Write an encouraging message to yourself and someone else.

June 1-5: Engineer a time capsule, use math to explore Get2Green data, and revisit past tweets to highlight POG..

June 8-12: Design a cartoon to include in your time capsule and animate it. Retweet activities we posted during distance learning.