It is lastly December, the elves are as much as their traditional mischief, presents are being wrapped, and individuals are wanting ahead to loads of festive enjoyable with household and mates. My Turkey STEM Challenges are nice for encouraging hands-on studying earlier than or in the course of the Christmas festivities.
Turkey STEM Challenges
Find out about robust shapes and secure buildings with a Turkey Tower.
Discover out why calcium is so vital by making flexible turkey bones.
Construct a Turkey Lure with objects out of your recycling bin.
Make and check a kitchen foil gravy boat!
Free Turkey STEM Template
My FREE turkey challenges and worksheets are nice for including a bit construction to the investigations.
Turkey Tower
We used cocktail sticks (toothpicks) and marshmallows to construct our tower. We discovered that creating triangle shapes within the construction made it a lot stronger.
Plasticine or some forms of sweet work properly if you’d like an alternative choice to marshmallows.
Be taught extra about robust shapes with my paper column exercise.
Flexible Bones
Bones are robust as a result of they include numerous calcium carbonate. My flexible bones STEM problem makes use of vinegar to take away calcium from a turkey bone, demonstrating how bones lose power once they lose calcium.
In case you go away a cooked turkey bone in vinegar for about 48 hours, you will discover it turns into so delicate you’ll be able to bend it.
Exercise taken from Gross Science.
Turkey Lure
The thought behind this exercise is to construct a entice to suit a small turkey toy or determine.
Gravy Boat Problem
For this problem, you want to construct a ship form utilizing foil that may maintain some gravy ( use water in the event you do not need to waste precise gravy ) with out sinking.
Do you’ve gotten extra Turkey STEM Challenges we will attempt?
Final Up to date on December 6, 2025 by Emma Vanstone
