1. STORM SHELTERS Challenge
A Third Grade STEM Project

2. Challenge
A huge storm is coming and you have to build a shelter to protect us from the rain and wind!
But what are you going to use to build the shelter? That’s the tricky part!

3. Building Material You will make your storm shelter out of clay…
BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR OWN CLAY…
WITHOUT A RECIPE!

4. Clay Making Menu
You will be given $20 to spend on materials. You must budget the money to purchase the materials that you need. You have the following materials to work with…
Flour
Salt
Oil
Water
Each material costs $1 per scoop.

5. Keeping a Recipe
You will be given a recipe card to keep a record of the recipe for your clay.
You must be careful to write down everything that you put in your clay.

6. Project Schedule Storm Shelter Wall
Today: -Introduce lesson -Create dough, keeping track of your budget and recipe -Post recipe on wall -Build shelter Next Time: -Test shelter -Write improvement plan -Post pictures of dwelling along with improvement plan on wall
Storm Shelter Wall

7. Testing
We will test your dwelling to make sure it can stand up to wind and water weathering in the following ways: -Wind Weathering: The Fan Test! -Water Weathering: The Strainer Test!

8. Why are we doing this?
S: Weather, weathering and erosion, how earth changes T: Publishing results online, social media, web etiquette E: Design process, making improvements based on results M: Measurement, money, fractions