It’s a new year and you likely have new goals, grant money to spend, or maybe just a renewed enthusiasm for inspiring and instructing young minds! Whatever the case, there has never been a better time to gear up your classroom or home with the latest and greatest STEM gadgets and tools. We are have compiled a list of “must haves” to enhance your STEM space!
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Get your towels ready to control the flooding! But, I promise, cross my heart, it will be worth it. And it's just water, after all. It's the Great Flood Barrier Challenge and it is one of our absolute favorites. I love it because it involves experimentation and keeping data and then making decisions
This hands-on seed dispersal project had an interesting beginning... Once upon a time, our third graders planted seeds every spring and we watched the Brassica plant change through its entire life cycle- including pollinating them with dried bees. This was always my favorite day of the year! I would hint to my third graders that the "bees
How to Store STEM Activities for Kids? Make a mobile stem lab with recycled materials and items you already have in your home.
Build a Bridge - The STEM activity is to build a bridge using marshmallows. The bridge must hold weight & be a specific length. Tips and ideas on this post!
Bridge Building in STEM Class- This blog post features a bridge for every grade level and tips about building them! Resource suggestions also included.
Sometimes you have to just make that winter wonderland- especially if you live in the south! Before I share some STEM Challenges with you I have a little story... When I was a little girl my family lived in Germany. Snow was a constant in our winter lives. We walked to the bus stop in
Build a Bridge - The STEM activity is to build a bridge using marshmallows. The bridge must hold weight & be a specific length. Tips and ideas on this post!
Learn effective strategies for Setting up a Classroom STEM Center in a busy teaching environment without overwhelming prep work.
When planning for new STEM projects I always had an idea for building a windmill. There are also many parts to this project- let's dive right in! Building windmills is something I wanted to try and so, we did! So, just imagine for a second, challenging your students to create something that turns... Let
A fun, hands-on winter STEM activity for kids. Explore shapes, symmetry, and snowflakes while "building" a snowflake. Science, math, and engineering at work
Learning can be fun! Using the proven HeidiSongs multi-sensory method, even preschool age children can easily learn to identify numbers, shapes, sight words.
Ready to bring STEM into your classroom in an easy, but exciting way! Create your own mini STEM Lab in your classroom and watch your students learn, explore, in a meaningful and engaging way!
Inspire minds with engaging STEM ideas! Discover hands-on engineering activities & creative classroom decor ideas. Tips, ideas, resources, and more - Join now!
Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the
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Will your class escape in time? Try this escape room style game with your students today! This is a fun game that is perfect for the month of October and the Halloween season. The focus on this game is pumpkins, with the final STEM challenge being to build a bridge that can hold 1-2 pumpkins. This ...
Coding meets science vocabulary instruction with VoCode! Integrate those robots you have (or turn students into robots) to complete these coding challenges. 3 Options for the activities mean that you can use this with ANY movable Bots and ANY grade level of students. Be sure to check out the images!
