They will then design and build a building of their choice in order to collaboratively create a city.ĭownload the lesson plan. In this lesson, students will learn about what features a building needs and what buildings are in their community. If all of his designs were gathered together, it could create a city. He designed everything from towers to chapels to skyscrapers. In this engineering challenge, students use the Engineering Design Cycle to build their own bridges and then write a reflection paper.ĭownload the lesson plan. In the book Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty, Iggy must build a bridge to save his teacher and classmates from an abandoned island. In the book Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty, Iggy must build a bridge to save his teacher and classmates from an abandoned island. In this engineering challenge, students sue the Engineering Design Cycle to build their own bridges and then write a reflection paper.ĭownload the lesson plan. Idea Sparks and Mini Lessons can also be used for differentiation and to foster new ideas of your own.ĭownload the lesson plan Building Bridges K-2 These questions, prompts, and short activities provide quick ways to inspire interest and explore the STEAM concepts related to the book. Return the book back to the library and check out another book.Check out these fun printables from Andrea Beaty’s website.Fill out the tower building follow-up paper.If you want to reuse the Play-Doh, disassemble your tower and put the Play-Doh back in its container.When you have a tower you love ask your parents if you can take a picture of it and email it to me.Use your imagination and see what kind of tower your can make.Use the little balls as the anchors or as a base for your tower. Roll your small piece of Play-Doh into a little ball. Open your Play-Doh and pinch off a small piece.I send home the following information with my students. A tower built with toothpicks & Play-Doh. The Students’ challenge is to see what they can build with just these two things. Luckily, I didn’t send home any diapers just Play-Doh and toothpicks. In the story, Iggy Peck built towers out of things he found including stinky diapers.

Play-Doh & Toothpicks The STEM kit is ready to go home. When they are finished with the book they will return the book to the library, but they will keep the supplies. I encourage them to take a picture of their finished project and email it to me. For this project, I’m sending home a packet with the students when they check out Iggy Peck Architect. If students are in our Makerspace Lab I let them make towers or bridges with all the supplies I have in our Makerspace such as clothespins, popsicle sticks, cardboard, yarn, toilet paper tubes, masking tape, and hot glue. After hearing the story of Iggy Peck I have my students do a STEM building activity.

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