Challenge 1: Simple Circuits

• MakeyMakey How-To (video)
• Playdoh Key Pad (video)
• Vintage Super Mario Bros. game (online game)
• Virtual Piano
• Make a Piano + Template (PDF)

Challenge 2: Programming

• Tickle App Tutorial (video)
• Ollie 101 – Tricks (video)

Challenge 3: Pinwheel Design

• Pinwheel Instructions (PDF)
• Wind Turbine Designs

Challenge 4: Homopolar Motor

• Monopolar Motor (video)
• Electric motor samples

Challenge 5: ArtBot

• ArtBot in Action (video)
• ArtBot with littleBits
• Making an ArtBot

Challenge 6: Flower Design

• Instructions (Drive)
• Video Instructions

Challenge 7: Hydraulics

• Making Hydraulic Machines
• Simple Hydraulic Machines

Challenge 8: Making Machines

• STIC Resources on Mechanisms
• K’Nex

Challenge 9: Claymation/Animation (3D and 2D)

• Video Instructions – iMotion HD
• iMotion HD app

Challenge 10: Bridge Building

• Bridge Basics
• How-To Video
• Bridge Template

Challenge 11: Catapults

• Student Sample Video
• Popsicle Stick Catapult

Challenge 12: Digital Art

• Turtle Art How-To
• Challenge Cards

Challenge 13: Game Design

• SCRATCH Create
• Getting Started – help
• SCRATCH Challenge cards

Challenge 14: Lemon Battery

Challenge 15: Binary Bracelets

Challenge 16: Paper Circuits

• How-to make a paper circuit
• Many examples of paper circuits

Challenge 17: Robotics Obstacle Challenges (Lego Mindstorm)

Challenge 18: Straw Rockets

Challenge 19: Chariot Racers with Spheros

• Resource Pages

Challenge 20: Coming soon…

Challenge 21: Cranky Contraptions

• How-To: Thanks to Ryoko Matsumoto @ryokomatsumoto

Challenge 22: e-Textile Creations

• Data Sheet

STEAM choice boards give the student the choice in what they want to discover about a given theme in Science and Technology. The below choice boards are directly connected to the MEEQ curriculum.

Elementary Cycle 2 & 3 – States of Matter

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Secondary Cycle 1 – Forces & Motion

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Secondary Cycle 1 – Transforming Energy

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Secondary Cycle 1 & 2 – Separation of Mixtures

 Download PDF

Challenge 01: Clean Water Factory

Challenge 02: LEGO Hydro Dam

Challenge 03: Paddle Boat

Challenge 04: Water Cycle in a Bag

Challenge 07: Hydraulics (from OCS Challenges)

Challenge 1: Fractions and LEGO

Challenge 2: Area and Perimeter

Challenge 3: Making Structures

Challenge 4:  Tessellation

Introduction to e-Textiles by Judy Boyd

See many more How-To videos on making e-Textiles on Julie Boyd Youtube channel

E-Textile project ideas: 

1. Bookmark book-light project (1-2 hours) – easy
2. Sparkling Bracelet project (3-5 hours) – easy
3. LED Flower Power Hair Accessory (1-2 hours) – easy
4. Add 3 Standard LEDs to a Bag (2-4 hours) – easy
5. Style up your Skirt with Lazy Daisy LEDs (2-4 hours) – intermediate
6. Make a Stylish E-Textiles BagLight (4-6 hours) – intermediate

Web:

1. Sew Electric
2. Trouble Shooting Guides for e-Textiles
3. E-Textiles and Wearables Tutorials & Resources
4. Towards a Curriculum for Electronic Textiles in the High School Classroom (PDF)
5. Cupcake Cushions, Scooby Doo Shirts, and Soft Boomboxes: E-Textiles in High School to Promote Computational Concepts, Practices, and Perceptions

Print:

1. Sew Electric – available at http://sewelectric.org
2. Textile Messages: Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education
3. Soft Circuits: Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics
4. Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear

1. your own interactive garments

Cardboard Engineering Projects

• Make gears
• 31 things you can make out of a cardboard box
• Cardboard hats
• Cardboard Automata
• Instructables : building with cardboard

Building with Other Household Materials

• 25 creative activities for kids
• Instructables : Hands on Engineering

Makey Makey project ideas:

• Getting started with Makey Makey (1-2 hours) – easy
• Musical instruments with the MaKey MaKey (1-4 hours) – easy/intermediate
• Makey Makey Lesson Plans (1-3 hours) – easy/intermediate/advanced

Web Resources

• Makey Makey: An Invention Kit for Everyone
• Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show

• Circuit Stickers (1-5 hours) – easy
• Paper Circuitry (1-5 hours) – easy
• Hack Your Notebook with circuits (1-7 hours) – easy/intermediate

• A collection of littlebits Lessons and Units
• Little Bits Bugs (1-2 hours) – easy

• Using Green Screen on Ipad (1-2 hours) – easy
• How to animate clay (1-3 hours) – easy
• iMotion (iOS) Free stop motion app
• Making Claymation in the Classroom eBook PDF
• List of Websites and Apps for Making Videos and Animation

Basic Programming

1. Hello World! Learn your basics! Open the program and its possibilities!
2. Learning to Program with Python – Several foundation activities (Basic, 10-20 min)
3. Python Quick Reaction Game (Basic, 30 min)
4. Python 3 Cheatsheet
5. Python and Science Lessons
6. Your first game EVER (Basic, 3 hrs)

Media Creation on RPi
SonicPi is an exciting program that enables you to produce music with your Raspberry Pi! There are simple tutorials below to help get you started!

• A step-by-step tutorial for beginners
• Complete list of Sonic Pi tutorials and projects
• Cheatsheet

Playing with Sensors on RPi
We can interact with our environment by connecting our Raspberry Pi to some basic sensors. Start small and build from there!

• Simple Recipes for RPi Sensors – (Beginner, 20 min. to 3 hours)
• GPIO Music Box
• Using Inputs with GPIO (Beginner, 30 minutes)
• Physical Computing with Scratch (Beginner, 1 to 2 hours)
• Sensor Cheatsheet (only available in French)
•  GPIO Sensor Cheat Sheet for Raspberry Pi
• GPIO Sensor Cheat Sheet for Raspberry Pi B+

Additional challenges:

• Hide and Seek (Beginner, 1 to 2 hours)
• Create “Whack-a-Block” game in Minecraft Pi (Intermediate, 1 to 2 hours)
• Explore the Projects Home
• The Official Raspberry Pi Projects book (PDF) – (2-3 hours) intermediate/advanced
• Getting Started with Minecraft Pi
• flotilla Cookbook

• EXPLOR3R Building Instructions (1 hour) – intermediate
• EV3 Starter Guide (2-3 hours) – intermediate

• Gallery of different WeDo projects (1-2 hours) – easy
• WeDo and Scratch projects (1-2 hours) – easy
• WeDo building instructions (1-2 hours) – easy
• Getting started with Scratch / Guide (PDF) (30 mins) – easy
• CodeClubProjects for Scratch – easy / intermediate / expert
• Explore Scratch Projects
• Scratch Tutorials