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Gary Reimann

Researching simple toys

Grades: 5th Grade, 4th Grade, 3rd Grade
Subjects: Science, Home Learning, STEAM

Student Instructions

Today you will be researching and having a look at simple toys that you can make at home. In today's video, I showed you a couple of ideas of different toys you can make. Your imagination, creativity and research you do today will help you for lessons that will follow this one in the next couple of weeks. When you are doing your research you will need to remember the following things. -You need to be able to make it with the items you have available. -It needs to have some moving components. 1. Press the add to open the activity. 2. On the first 2 slides there are some links to different searches I did. You can use these or come up with your own search. 2. On slide 3 upload show a picture of the first toy you found that you would like to make, Write down 2 things you liked and 2 things you did not like. 4. Do this for the next 2 slides with 2 other toys you find and like. 5. On the last slide show the design you liked the most. Write down a list of items you would need if you were to make that item and also tell me some changes you would make to make this design your own. 6. If you run out of time and want to come back to the activity later press draft 7. When complete, press check to finish

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