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Make simple popsicle stick catapults for fun play at home. Popsicle stick catapults are a great STEM activity and boredom buster on bad weather days!

Make simple popsicle stick catapults. Ideas that were used for our project based learning project.

The website, "Little Bins for Little Hands" is a website that has different STEM projects and Project Based Learning projects for teachers to use in the classroom. This website shows the project of building a catapult out of popsicle sticks and rubber bands. It provides pictures, videos, steps to build one. It then provides a like to different physic activities that can be taught in the classroom using project based learning.

A great website that shows many different catapults that students could create in their classes, and also discusses the science behind catapults!

Create a simple catapult out of craft sticks, rubber bands, and a plastic spoon. Ideal for scouting activities or school projects. Includes free plans.

An awesome website that gives a good hint on how to build a simple marshmallow catapult using popsicle sticks, a spoon, and rubber bands.

For our project based learning assignment here is a good and simple way to build a catapult for marshmallows

Another awesome website that gives great hints on how to create another version of the marshmallow catapult using a spoon, popsickle sticks, and rubber bands.

this is a visual helping tool to organize some thoughts about what you want your catapult to look like in the end product and what extents it can go to.

As a teacher of mostly teenage boys, I can say my kids want to see three things:  something on fire, something crashing, or something flying (and then crashing).  I love teaching middle-school scie…

This is a fun video that gives an example of various catapults that exists and they can be in all different sizes and can be a really dun activity to be involved with.

You know the hardest thing about teaching with project-based learning? Explaining it to someone. It seems to me that whenever I asked someone the definition of PBL, the description was always so complicated that my eyes would begin to glaze over immediately.

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Many educators are intrigued by the use of educational technology in their classrooms and with their students. They want to move past the productivity stage to the point of truly enhancing their own teaching and their students' learning through educational tools.