STEM Marble Maze
STEM challenges are always a good idea, especially for language learners. If you're looking for the perfect low-prep STEM activity, try a play dough marble maze!
For a marble maze, all you need are whiteboards or plates, play dough, and a marble. Students have a set amount of time to design and create their maze. They can work individually or in partners. The objective is to move the marble through the maze without it falling off the board.
You can choose to blow the marble through the maze, or tilt it through.
Working together allowed students to practice social and academic language skills, as well as have fun!
The teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving skills needed to complete a challenge lend themselves so well to authentic use of language. When STEM challenges are applied to a
, students have double the chances to use academic vocabulary!
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