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Cardboard Challenge
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Using cardboard boxes of different sizes and shapes, construct a unique or new creation and then make up a narrative to go along with it.
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| Add a Tech Twist | Optional: Join the Global Cardboard Challenge! To register your participation in the Global Cardboard Challenge, visit CardboardChallenge.com. For inspiration, watch the short films Caine’s Arcade and Caine’s Arcade 2, and look on the Internet for other inventions by searching #cardboardchallenge. |
| Hints for uses in your library | Read the Program Planning section of Promising Practices: A Guide for Library Staff: |
| Related Links | Global Cardboard Challenge |
| Originating Source | This activity was contributed by the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. ©2014 Bay Area Discovery Museum. It was adapted from materials produced by the Imagination Foundation. For more information and resources see CenterforChildhoodCreativity.org. To register your participation in the Global Cardboard Challenge visit CardboardChallenge.com |
| Related Books [Suggest a book] |
These children’s books all deal with various themes involved in engineering such as the engineering design process, specific projects such as building bridges or houses, and perseverance through failure.
• Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty • Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty • Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty • This Bridge Will Not Be Gray by Dave Eggers • Cross a Bridge by Ryan Ann Hunter • What To Do With an Idea? By Kobi Yamada • Ish by Peter H. Reynolds • Stuck by Oliver Jeffers • The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds • The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires • How a House is Built by Gail Gibbons |