Who doesn’t like mini-golf?! This challenge gives students a chance to design, create, and play a hole for a miniature mini-golf hole. The end result is quite fun!
Book-Inspired Mini-Golf STEM Challenge suggests a fun book about golf (and mini-golf), with some alternates, and then gives instructions and ideas for implementing a STEM challenge for students to build a hole for their own mini-golf course. This includes instructions and suggestions for the teacher and a planning template for students. I also include sample photos of mini-golf course holes made by students.
Following the challenge pages is a mini-lesson about angles and mirrors, which teaches students how a golf ball hitting a wall will be reflected off the wall at the same angle. Finally, three math practice pages let students use a protractor to reflect angles off a mini-golf wall.
See the preview for a look at the included pages!