Quick+Science+Challenges

Let's use this page to compile a list of quick and engaging critical thinking activities. Ideally, the activity would be inherently motivating and quickly grab student attention.
 * **Balancing Nails-** Ss receive a wooden block with a nail hammered in partly and are challenged to balance ten nails on the head of the one nail. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000083
 * **Jumping Pegs** - Using golf tee pegs to jump over and eliminate pegs until there is only one left. You may have see these at Cracker Barrel restaurants. Here is a link to where you can play this game. http://www.crackerbarrel.com/games/game_peg/easypeg.html
 * **Tangrams** - Using geometric shapes to make figures. You can buy the plastic pieces or construct the Tangrams from paper. This link shows how to construct them from paper and how to use them to make figures. http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/1_Math/2_Illustrated_Lessons/7_Tangrams/index.html