Technology: Creative Communication
Engineering: Developing Solutions
60 Minute Lesson
All Superhero Cards
Ball (1 for the last group activity)
BrickLAB Bricks
Meeting Our Heroes (10 minutes)
Superhero Hall of Fame (40 minutes)
What Makes Me Super (10 minutes)
Use your creativity and design skills to build a brick representation of your favorite superhero.
NGSS K-2-ETS1-2 Develop a simple sketch, drawing or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
ISTE-S.6.b Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
Creativity and Innovation
Initiative and Self Direction
Taking Responsible Risks
Listening with Understanding and Empathy
What does it mean to be super? It’s the same question you were asked the first day of camp! Do you think your …show more content…
What truly makes you super are the ways you help the people around you. Now Superman might not be real, but our world is still full of heroes. From doctors who live like Wonder Woman, spending countless hours practicing for surgeries to firefighters willing to risk their lives battling uncontrollable blazes like Petra, there are heroes everywhere – you just need to know where to look!
To be a hero, you don’t need to be a certain height and you don’t need a costume. All you need is to want to help the people around you. From scoring a soccer goal to guiding a friend through a tough math problem, we all have our own special powers to offer the world, and each one of them is unique to that person. So, what’s your superpower?
Gather today’s materials and read through the Background Information and lesson plan.
Make a plan for distributing bricks to campers. One option is to spread the boxes around at four “supply stations” where everyone can pull the bricks they need. Another is to break the bricks into smaller plastic