Hurricane House Construction

This stem activities teaches children how to make a 3-D object out of flat material. Making 3-D objects out of flat materials

Material Needed:

-Pencil

-Eraser

-Ruler

-Scissors

-Ball Point Pen

-Sharpie (felt tip marker)

-Colored Pencil

-Masking Tape

-11 x 17 inch cardstock

-11 x 17 graph paper

-Tacky glue

-12 x 12 cardboard (mount house before it is subjected to Hurricane Bell.

-Leaf blower

Pre-work:

Day 1

Not so good...Now you will teach children how to incorporate tabs in their cube design.

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Day 2

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Day 3 - Day 5

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Let's start! Do this together with the kids. Step by step.

This diagram is using the larger measurement.

Walls: 5 + 5+ 3 + 3 = 16. So make your horizontal line 16" long.

This is 3 1/2"

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At the conclusion of this program the STEM teacher put the houses on a stand and took a leaf blower to see what one he could "blow" up. The ones that stood the winds, won.

4th Grade (PCFL) - Attachment Techniques.

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Credit: This program was from a 3 day virtual conference I attended 4/2021: Pine Crest School. 2021, April 18. Seventh Annual Innovation Institute. https://www.pinecrest.edu/discover-pine-crest/community-of-educators/professional-learning-conferences

Hurricane House. Bell, R., Stevens, M and Borgen, T.