SPIES! A GATE Adventure 18+ Contact Hours - Challenging and Engaging!
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Your students will ask to stay in from recess for this. It is the most popular unit I've taught in 32 years, and it is packed with challenging critical thinking.
We imagine students are training at the school for spies: mini survivor challenges, mini crossbows, a jewel heist, footprint mysteries, memory games, cipher disks, case files, messages hidden in gel caps. This unit is STEM and critical thinking at its coolest and finest, and we’ve thrown in reading, speaking and listening, and a social-emotional lesson to boot.
All of this has been kid-tested in my classroom, and the largest portions have been field-tested by colleagues around the USA. You can see their positive feedback in my store.
Time: More than a full semester of one hour talent pools.
Level: 4th Grade GATE through 7th grade.
Materials (sort of a big list, but the timing will allow you to gather materials as you go, and many can be found in the junk drawer or garage)
· Two different sized paper plates
· Brads
· Size 0 gelatin capsules
· File folders
· Plastic baggies
· Beads, buttons, cardboard, mailing and masking tape, glue
· String
· 7” balloons
· Straws
- “Junk Drawer” items galore!
- Little wooden pieces like dowels, craft sticks, and wheels
- Little boxes from toothpaste tubes, candy, plastic cups and paper plates, etc
- Low temp hot glue guns
- Paper clips
- Cardstock or index cards
- Paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes
- Little pieces of toys or little broken toys or junky items in general
· 3 standard craft sticks per student
· 2 jumbo craft sticks per student
· Mini, low temperature hot glue
· 2 barrettes per student
· Floss/friendship thread
· One cotton swab (plastic stem!)
· Floral shears or craft saw
