![]() ![]() On Friday this week, we studied Germany and their tradition of decorating a Christmas Tree. ![]() The book can be purchased printed or as a download. You can print the book in color, but it also has black and white coloring pages for the children to color as well. I happen to use my own book, Holiday Traditions Around the World for this, because it is short, sweet, and to the point! (I wrote it that way because there just doesn’t seem to EVER be enough time in the day!) I also like that I only have to have just the ONE book for 16 different countries holidays, rather than 16 different books, which I can’t store and don’t want to purchase. The first thing that I do is teach the children a little bit about a country and its traditions. We have done a few other seasonal STEM projects too, but I will have to save those for another post! For now, here is what I have planned for December to go along with our Holidays Around the World Unit. I just switched the item on top of the tower to be an apple rather than a tennis ball, and used the blocks that I had available to me! In this case, the catapult project was just a regular STEM project that I renamed as a “Punkin Chunker” to make it fit the October season, just for fun.īefore that in September, we did a Back to School Apple Jenga STEM project that I adapted from another idea that I saw on Pinterest. After that, I see if I can find a way to adapt the project to the current theme by changing it slightly or renaming it.įor example, if you have been following my blog this fall, you may remember that I did a STEM “Punkin’ Chunkin” project in October, in which the children made catapults out of craft sticks and masking tape, and then tried to hurl their “punkins,” which were really just orange pompoms as far as possible. For example, for December I searched under STEM or science and then added some keywords like tree, sled, snow, candle, etc. I search under terms related to that holiday or event. I start browsing around on Pinterest and online to see if I can find a fun STEM project that catches my eye. It turns out that giving STEM projects “a theme” really isn’t that hard it’s really a matter of thinking creatively as you plan them and giving them a different name than you might have otherwise. Sound interesting? Read on to find out more! Have you ever thought about combining your social studies topics with science or STEM projects? Well, that is what I have been trying to do this year, and in this post I am going to tell you about a few of the ideas I have for December! We won’t have time to do them all, but I wanted to just throw them out there so that if any of you want to try them, you’ll have time to make it happen. ![]()
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