Builder Bins- DIY Dollar Store STEM Center | STEM Challenges for Maker Spaces

DIY your Maker Space Science center with these STEM Challenge Task Cards plus all the extras you need for hands-on learning with materials from your local dollar store. Are critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity skills you’re looking to address in the classroom? Need something meaningful for your fast finishers? Do your science centers need some pizzazz? Unleash potential with this perfect printable!

Builder Bins are the perfect addition to your science centers! You get a simple shopping list of things you can purchase at the dollar store near you and add the labels, worksheet, task cards… VOILA! You have a simple but quality engineering activity for your students to explore and problem solve. PLUS with so many options for materials and different task cards, you can mix up the center often to keep it fresh!

What You’ll Get:

32 Builder Task Cards with Visual Icons (prints 4 to a page)
28 Material Cards with Visual Icons (print 16 to a page)
28 Full-Color Material Labels for Building Supplies
28 B&W Material Labels (Try Printing on Colored Paper)
2 Student Worksheets
Supply Shopping List for the Dollar Store
Color and B&W Builder Bins Center Labels
Directions for Printing, Set Up, Use, and Prepping Supplies
Having a ready-made center like this means there is always something available to challenge students that is ready to go… Download the PREVIEW file to see exactly what you are getting! Like what you see? Purchase the full activity today and work smarter, not harder!

Who Benefits from this Product:

Special Education Teachers
Elementary Teachers
Science Teachers (Elementary and Middle)
If you are a teacher who works with students who have disabilities and you’re trying to build critical thinking and problem solving, then this is for you!

If you are a teacher looking to expand and improve on your classroom science centers by adding a maker space, then you’ll love this printable resource.

Students love engaging with real hands-on tasks. If your students need to get their hands dirty with some STEM and if you want something real and concrete for them to work on, then this is for you!

If you are looking for something simple to get started but with a lot of bang for the effort, then this is for you!

This resource was created by Ayodele Jones © 2016. All rights reserved by author. The materials in this unit were distributed and intended for single use only. The purchaser may reproduce copies for students in your classroom for classroom use only. You may not share with other teachers in your building, district, or otherwise. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting this item (or any part thereof) on the internet is strictly prohibited. Violations are subject to penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Additional licenses can be purchased for multi-use at a discount. Please contact the author at ajones@noodlenook.net.