Welcome to the 2018 Gingerbread STEAM Community Makerspace

Welcome to the 2018 Gingerbread STEAM Community & Makerspace Global Project John W. Moore Middle School December 2018

Calling All 5 th and 6 th Grade Classes to Join the STEAM Team The Challenge: Can you design our community’s most interesting points on a geographical map using the elements of a gingerbread house for the building materials?

Teachers As A Team, Before You Start on Day One 1. Make partner groups of two to three students in your class 2. Divide out the quadrants of the city on a map 3. Select at least one major landmark or building for each class quadrant 4. Draw the city map and locate the major roads on the map Example of Freedom Florence Complex

Day One General Introduction As a class before you break into teams……. Do this…… Next slide

Discover Florence, SC ● What's awesome about where we live? ● What goods and services, historical buildings, attractions, or other notable places can you find the most interesting in our community? ● We want to see the places you love in our STEAM graham cracker gingerbread engineering challenge. ● Students will design and construct their own communities and then provide a presentation tour.

Make a List of building and landmarks 1. Florence Center 2. Freedom Florence Sports Center 3. Downtown Florence 4. Magnolia Mall 5. John W. Moore Middle School 6. Performing Arts Center 7. Francis Marion University 8. Florence Darlington Tech College 9. Farmer’s Market 10. SIMT Complex

Research Your Building/ Landmark Choice ● What building/landmark is it? ● Why this building/landmark it important to the community? ● What do people do in this building/landmark? Make a Google Slide to share with the school about your building

How to Draw a Gingerbread House

Plan the Decorations for Your Building/Landmark 1. 2. 3. 4. Plan your Prototype Draw it Build it in construction paper Build the foundation in cardboard 5. Make a list of needed supplies 6. Get ready for building day

Prototype

Resources

Day One What Partners do on Day One! Class Partners of two to three students will. . 1. 2. 3. 4. Research Florence, SC Select a building to make in gingerbread Build the model in cardboard Plan the decorations and bag them together for each set of partners 5. Make a Google Slide about your Building/Landmark.

Day Two Fifth Grade Map ● Come to the Gym at Your Team's Related Arts Time ● Bring your cardboard prototypes built of your buildings and landmarks ● Bring your team’s graham crackers, candies, icing, and decorations divided in to partner bags. ● Bring your City Map to the Gym Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Stage

Sixth Grade Map Day Two ● Come to the Gym at Your Team's Related Arts Time ● Bring your cardboard prototypes built of your buildings and landmarks ● Bring your team’s graham crackers, candies, icing, and decorations divided in to partner bags. ● Bring your City Map to the Gym Class 1 Itinerant Teachers Class 3 Class 1 Class 2 Class 4 Moore Teachers Class 3 Class 2 Class 4 Stage

How to Make a Gingerbread house

Teacher Guidelines

Gingerbread STEAM Community Step 1: Research Your Community! ● ● The research process begins when students determine what structures should be constructed for the Gingerbread STEAM Community. Consider the goods and services, attractions, landmarks, industries, or historical buildings that best represents where you live. Step 2: Plan and Prototype Your Community ● ● Before the construction process begins, it's best for students to sketch out their ideas on paper or even 3 D modeling tools such as Legos or Play Doh. This allows time to test ideas and make decisions of where to place structures in their Gingerbread STEAM Community.

Gingerbread STEAM Community Step 3: Gather Materials for the Construction Phase Time to round up the materials needed to create your Gingerbread STEM community. Suggestions include but are not limited to: ● ● ● ● Graham crackers Icing Candies Snack foods (pretzels, small cookies, small crackers, popcorn) Empty cardboard boxes and school milk cartons Hot glue gun (especially for primary classrooms as we suggest gluing the graham crackers to empty boxes and cartons before decorating) Circuitry or coding tools for older classrooms

Gingerbread STEAM Community Step 4: Students Construct their Gingerbread STEM Communities After all the planning and gathering of materials, the time has come to build the community. Be sure to take pictures of the construction process and post them in social media using our #Gingerbread. STEM hashtag. We can't wait to see what your students create!

Other Fun Stuff Makerspace Components Google Hangout Skype Social Media #Gingerbread. STEM

Details Who? 5 th and 6 th Grade Students What? Gingerbread STEAM Community Challenge When? December 14 th and 17 th Where? In the classroom one day, December 14 th, 8: 00 am to 10: 00 am Where? In the Gym the last day, December 17 th, during your related arts time Why? To have a Schoolwide STEAM Challenge and for FUN!!!! How? Related Arts will help to supervise the gym day building prototypes

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