Back-to-School Printable Magnetic Tile Cards
Start the school year with hands-on STEM fun! These Back-to-School Printable Magnetic Tile Cards encourage students to explore shapes, solve problems, and use their creativity while building familiar school-themed objects.
Students can use magnetic tiles to create an apple, book, school bus, globe, pencil, crayon, chalkboard, and more.
The open-ended challenges also invite students to:
Build a 3D version of an image
Design their dream classroom
Rebuild an object using fewer tiles
Create a double-sized version
Build with a partner and guess each other’s creations
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Practice STEM and Math Skills
As students build, they practice important skills such as identifying shapes, composing larger shapes, developing models, testing ideas, and improving their designs. The included shape-counting and graphing pages make it easy to connect each challenge to early math instruction.
Perfect for the Beginning of the Year
These magnetic tile task cards work well for:
Morning work
STEM centers
Makerspaces
Early finishers
Indoor recess
Partner activities
Back-to-school classroom routines
Because magnetic tiles are reusable, the challenges are easy to prepare and can be enjoyed year after year.
Add these Back-to-School Magnetic Tile Building Challenge Cards to your classroom for a simple, engaging way to introduce the engineering design process and help students begin the year thinking like engineers!
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