Are you looking for something that will have ALL of your elementary students engaged from young kids to older? Do you hate planning out stem projects that use hard-to-find equipment and are exhausting to prepare? Have you tried easy STEM activities yet in your classroom? Easy stem challenges are a great way to have students […]
Students choose different ways to create the longest paper chain out of one sheet of construction paper in this easy to prep and complete STEM Challenge.
I decided to take on my own challenge of incorporating a STEM activity every day for a week. It turned out to be a huge success where both my students and I had a blast. Here were the various …
Help Save Fred is a great stem activity! This save Fred the worm is super fun stem activity will help your students strengthen team building skills and...
Every once in a while, I create a product for my classroom or my TPT store that I get just giddily excited about. Products that are unique and that I know kids and teachers will both love. I felt this way when I released my escape rooms for early childhood, and I'm feeling it again with my latest project: STEM Safari! I've been working on it for weeks, and I am thrilled that it is finally live! STEM Safari is an organized approach to implementing STEM in your classroom, and so much fun! Each STEM session, a student picks a challenge card to complete. There are 5 different types of cards: 1. Elephant Engineering (engineering challenges) 2. Cheetah Challenge (challenges with specific parameters in place) 3. Rhino Riddles ("How can you...?" challenges) 4. Warthog Wonderings (reflection questions and challenges) 5. Buffalo Building (free choice building). I wanted to prevent students from always picking the same type of card, such as the free choice building, which is, of course, valuable, but doesn't do as well with developing problem-solving skills. To do this, and to encourage my students to try new things, they each have an Animal Checklist. Every time they complete a specific type of challenge, they check it off. When they have completed all 5 of the different challenge types, they color in one country in their STEM Safari Africa map. Then they "journey" to a new country and start again with a new animal checklist! This way, the fun just keeps going, but they have a way to track how many challenges they have completed. There is also a STEM Safari Journal included, which helps build their reflection skills. Any of the Warthog Wondering cards that say "write about it" can be completed in their STEM Safari Journals. There are also a few "design" challenges in the Elephant Engineering cards that can be completed in their journals. As they continue their STEM Safari journey, the reflections they have completed in the journal will help them polish their problem-solving and engineering skills. I love doing STEM projects with my students! It is amazing to see what they can accomplish with a few basic supplies and some open-ended directives. However, storing all of these supplies can be a challenge. Included in the STEM Safari kit are tons of supply labels with photographs, to help keep everything neat. Here's a close-up example of a supply label. I even included some editable labels so that you can customize them for any supplies you have on hand! I really hope that your students enjoy STEM Safari as much as mine do! Click here to purchase in my shop, or here to purchase in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. There's just something about open-ended, hands-on learning that gets kiddos excited. I would love to hear how you use STEM in your classroom; drop me a comment below! Happy teaching!
Plan these simple and fun Paper bag STEM challenges for kids! Easy STEM activities that use what's around to encourage invention and design.
Fun STEM activity for outdoor play and makes a great science lesson! (Includes a printable rocket template).
I decided to take on my own challenge of incorporating a STEM activity every day for a week. It turned out to be a huge success where both my students and I had a blast. Here were the various …
These fun and engaging second grade STEM activities (science, technology, engineering, and math) will give little minds a workout!
10 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Activities for Preschoolers has great learning ideas for 3-4 year olds.
Take kids outside with these fun outdoor STEM activities that include science, technology, engineering, math.
Problem Solving is the heart of STEM and the most interesting part to watch. Students are fearless and will keep working until they find a solution! And, their solutions are often amazing!
28 days of hands-on STEM activities for kids - coding, STEM challenges, STEM on a budget, and more! It's science, tech, engineering & math made fun.
Make a straw rocket with a free printable file! This STEM activity is for kids of all ages and they will love playing with their creation!
Are you looking for something that will have ALL of your elementary students engaged from young kids to older? Do you hate planning out stem projects that use hard-to-find equipment and are exhausting to prepare? Have you tried easy STEM activities yet in your classroom? Easy stem challenges are a great way to have students […]
Are you looking for easy and engaging Sports ideas for STEM? I have you covered, but first... Ready for some truth? About a year ago I was looking for ideas for Thanksgiving STEM projects to complete a STEM by the Month series. Everything I found was about turkeys and Pilgrims and the Mayflower. It also really
STEM challenges are the best way to begin building classroom community and teamwork at the beginning of the year. They are also a great way to introduce problem-solving skills and get students thinking creatively and outside the box. The best part is students LOVE them, and they don't eve
Apple Annihilator is the 3rd STEM Challenge in my back-to-school series. These challenges are great for fall apple activities and studies of forces and motion! Working against a criteria & constraints list, students (individually or in partners) will design an apple wrecking ball built for annihilation and/or accuracy.
Join the STEM Teachers Club and get this STEM Challenge and 500+ more ready to use lessons today! Earlier this fall we experienced multiple hurricanes in and around the United States. As a teacher in Indiana, my students are not very familiar with hurricanes. I wanted a fun and hands on
S.T.E.M. and Growth Mindset concepts complement and reinforce each other perfectly, so teaching them together is a perfect match! Here's how I combine them.
Bucket Towers is an original STEM Challenge for upper elementary classes and it is a student favorite. You will love the easy prep! This is hard to believe, but some of our best STEM Challenges have been created accidentally. The STEM Bucket Tower challenge is one of those! Building boats was another total spur-of-the-moment challenge.
Awesome STEM projects for kids including hands-on science, technology, engineering and math ideas. Fun STEM activities for all ages!
Teacher friends, As you know the end of the year is slowly but surely approaching. You and your students could not be MORE READY! Real learning does not have to go out the window just yet, you just have to mask it such a way where it doesn’t quite seem like learning to students… but it in fact, still
Here is an amazing list of clever, unique and simple set up STEM challenges and lesson plans from other teachers.
Kids will have fun learning about physics with this fun Zipline Engineering Lesson. This Spring STEM Activity is perfect for kids of all ages!
The Pipe Cleaner (aka "Fuzzy Sticks") Challenge is one of my favorite STEM activities to introduce students to STEM learning. This is a fun, inexpensive, and engaging challenge that can be tailored to different ages, settings, and time-frames. This challenge is also an excellent
This fun quadrilateral STEM project is a fun way to practice building quadrilaterals and practice shape recognition. There is even a free printable to guide your project.
Let's fly away STEM Challenges. Students have three different kinds of flying devices- hoop flyers, helicopters, or planes. They experiment with base models and then design a new model.
Help Save Fred is a great stem activity! This save Fred the worm is super fun stem activity will help your students strengthen team building skills and...
A perfect activity for encouraging temwork in the STEM lab or a regular classroom. All you need is string and a little imagination!
Use STEM engineering activities in elementary school as a fun, engaging, and meaningful way to tackle the Next Generation Science Standards.
We've all been there, it's a hot day, and you really want an ice pop ( popsicle ), but it's too cold to hold at first, and then the sun melts it before
If your students aren’t excited about STEM, the problem might be a lack of exposure to real-world challenges. Real-world problem solving should be at the core of any STEM education program. It increases student buy-in as students realize that their work has an impact that extends beyond the classro
If you need STEM projects ideas, this is THE place to go! This is a collection of over 200 STEM projects and activities that kids love!
5 Simple STEM activities with paper plates. Frugal, easy, fun, and best of all highly engaging on STEM Activities for Kids.
This LEGO Balance Math Activity is such a cool activity kids of...
Teamwork in STEM- Article featuring three STEM Challenges, posters, team-building activities, job badges, helpful tips, and more! 6 Ways to Focus on Teamwork
Use STEM engineering activities in elementary school as a fun, engaging, and meaningful way to tackle the Next Generation Science Standards.
The ORIGINAL water bottle flip STEM activity and lab! Water bottle flip at school? Absolutely! Students will love this on-trend STEM challenge inspired by the popular YouTube water bottle flipping challenge where students toss a water bottle and attempt to land it straight up. Practice scientific method with some probability, fractions and data collection in the mix while having fun! This self-paced, low-prep, project based learning water bottle flip STEM challenge is print-and-go. Each activity sheet guides students through the project. STEM Challenge Overview: Students will use the included visual directions, graphic organizers, charts, and activities to... Determine the best type of water bottle to use for flipping. Students will compare 4-8 different water bottles, develop a toss technique, collect data and calculate the success rate. Test the best water level to fill the bottle to have the best chance of landing their toss. Students will vary the water level, collect data and calculate the success rate. Create a frequency table, graph - either a line plot, dot plot, or bar graph (depending on what works best for your class), and calculate the mean successful tosses. Design the ideal bottle for flipping. Materials Needed: Just plastic water bottles! I suggest setting up a collection in the cafeteria for a week or so before doing the challenge to collect & reuse bottles. ALSO includes: Self-score rubric Posters that explain the science behind the challenge. Printable water bottle labels for students to color and affix to "winning" bottles. Detailed teacher note page with video links to introduce the challenge. Visual step-by-step directions to film a slow motion video on the iPad of their tosses. Link to Google Slides paperless version of student pages TPT Easel Version More STEM Challenges: Blow Cup STEM Challenge Fidget Spinner STEM Challenge Paper Popper STEM Challenge More STEM / STEAM Activities iPad and App Store are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc. © 2015 Google Inc. All rights reserved. Erintegration is not affiliated with and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Google Inc. or Apple Inc.
