Marble Maze Chalenge

This is a simple no prep activity that had them busy for an hour.

Marble maze chalenge.

Let students start creating and testing their paper plate marble maze. We would love to see you try this stem challenge. A metal pan that can be held and manipulated a baking or pizza pan is great option. They must follow all elements of a real design process including brainstorming blueprints prototypes tweaking and testing their designs.

In this activity your child will create a marble maze out of large straws and other materials. My boys decided to create a magnetic marble maze challenge using items we had on hand. In this paper plate maze stem challenge kids are challenged to make a marble maze using household materials. This challenge allows for open exploration time with the materials and then provides challenges for your child to complete based on how they respond to being able to first create a maze without restrictions.

Follow our stem for kids pinterest board. This post contains affiliate links. Can you build a maze to successfully get a marble from start to finish. The challenge was a welcome back activity set for the boys in years 3 to 6 for their first cdt lessons this term.

For this magnetic maze activity you will need. The boys in years 5 and 6 had to use their lego blocks in a different way to make a lego marble maze or labyrinth. This is a great activity to work as a team with siblings parents or friends when not social distancing to figure out a solution. Boys in years 3 and 4 created marble runs there are some very creative results.

Using simple household materials we want you to design a marble run that takes a minute to complete no more. Once students are done creating and testing it is fun to have them try out each other s creations. This engineering activity is great for kids from kindergarten age up through 4th 5th and 6th grades. Have students pass around their paper plate marble mazes and share how and why they went about creating what they did.

In this stem challenge for kids children will create a paper plate marble maze game inspired by pinball machines using a paper plate and a marble.