Fairy Tale STEM and STEAM Activities and Challenges Makerspace Task Cards

Hands-on fairy tale STEM challenges that are open-ended and allow for student creativity! Students can complete all 20 STEM activities OR use the choice board and pick their challenge(s). These low prep activities are easy to set up with materials you already have, like paper, recyclables, or building bricks and blocks. Your students will be begging to do more!

✅ What You'll Get ✅

• 20 Fairy Tale STEM challenges: These can be displayed from the PDF file or from Google Slides, or printed at 4 per page to create task cards. I have also included choice mats that can be kept in a folder or at a STEM center or Makerspace. Encourage students to try and solve the problem at least two ways and then compare results!
• Various recording options: Choose from a simple page to record the plan, a graphic organizer, or from one of two digital options - Pic Collage or Google Slides (or any digital sharing app like SeeSaw, FlipGrid, etc.).
• A rubric checklist ✅ is included so students know what is expected of them.
• At least one task included for each of the following fairy tales:
  • ⭐ Cinderella ⭐
  • ⭐ Sleeping Beauty ⭐
  • ⭐ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ⭐
  • ⭐ Rumpelstiltskin ⭐
  • ⭐ The Princess and the Pea ⭐
  • ⭐ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ⭐
  • ⭐ The Little Mermaid ⭐
  • ⭐ The Elves and the Shoemaker ⭐
  • ⭐ The Little Red Hen ⭐
  • ⭐ Beauty and the Beast ⭐
  • ⭐ Jack and the Beanstalk ⭐
  • ⭐ The Three Little Pigs ⭐
  • ⭐ Little Red Riding Hood ⭐
  • ⭐ Hansel and Gretel ⭐

Please read - These are open ended STEM activities. They are meant to be completed with materials you have on hand or that your students feel comfortable with. If you are new to STEM or you need more guided activities, please view STEM Tales Challenges instead, as they are very detailed and walk students through the engineering design process in a very straightforward way.

The zip file includes 4 files:

File with the challenges

File with the printables

File with instructions for using with Google Slides* (cen be downloaded for use with PowerPoint, or downloaded as an image and shared digitally!)

File with instructions for using with Pic Collage

I created these so that students can work independently on STEM. Use for bell work / morning work, early finishers, or for an after school STEM club. You don't need a fancy makerspace to complete these tasks. I recommend hanging on to recyclables and using what you already have, such as paper, tape, and building blocks and math manipulatives. The challenges are primarily building tasks.

If you are looking for more in depth challenges that tie in literacy to STEM, please visit the STEM Tales Jumbo BUNDLE.

What Teachers Are Saying

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "What a wonderful resource! This was perfect to introduce our STEM materials and procedures at the beginning of the year. Students were engaged and had so much fun! Thank you!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This was SO much fun! During our fairytale unit in ELA, I assigned these for science. They enjoyed it so much! They shared with their peers using FlipGrid. It was great."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Have used these STEM activities to support my fairytale unit and the students have really stepped up their ability to "think outside the box""

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My gifted 1st and 2nd graders are hard at work as we speak creating the fairy tale stem items. I have gotten some great results so far as they are thinking outside the box!"

*************************** Related Resources *************************

ALL STEM Tales

• Rapunzel
• Goldilocks
• Robin Hood
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Three Little Pigs
• Hansel & Gretel
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Ugly Duckling
• Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
• Little Red Riding Hood
• The Wizard of Oz

Fairy Tale STEM Quick Tasks

Nursery Rhyme STEM Quick Tasks

Aesop's Fables STEM Quick Tasks

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