Teacher friends, It’s typical for students to begin losing focus in the classroom as the end of the school year is approaching. 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 in fact, still is! Do your
As I began to implement elementary STEM activities in my classroom, I saw STEM was not just a craft project!
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K-5 Elementary STEM resources and ideas to integrate into the classroom
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.
STEM Bins for Elementary Students “I’m finished! What do I do now?” How many times during our teaching day do we hear these words from our students? Oftentimes, it is much too often, and students are provided a handful of the same options to keep them busy until our next transition. Sometimes students are instructed...
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!
A few months back I experimented with a STEM Challenge we called a Quest. Whoa! I could not have found a more perfect way to add a design challenge together with some intense problem-solving. It's a race against the clock and other teams to open locked boxes after completing a task. My fourth and fifth
If you're on the lookout for a STEM project for elementary grades, you're going to love this one! Click through to get all the details and start today.
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Making has grown in popularity over the years and makerspaces have become commonplace in classrooms, libraries, and schools. As teachers rethink how they teach during this time of remote and socially distanced learning, they are also having to reimagine the traditional makerspace.
The following is a guest post from Christine Dixon . Teaching elementary STEM during these trying times with COVID is a design challenge with new constraints being added on a daily basis. Whether you are teaching remotely, on a hybrid schedule, or in person our "normal" way of teachin
Join us for a new STEM webinar and learn how to mix STEM and play during distance learning this school year. Here are the details.
This STEM Challenge is made for kids as they engineer a foosball table with players competing on two teams. It’s a perfect team building project with students choosing between building the playing field, the players, or decorating the model. This STEM activity was designed and tested with 4th and 5th-grade students and it’s completely free....
A new way to STEM! Guide your students through the entire STEM engineering design process using a simple trifold. Students will ask, imagine, plan, create, evaluate, reflect, and improve...all in the trifold! For this challenge which can be completed in one class period, students will construct a sli...
S.T.E.M. and Growth Mindset concepts complement and reinforce each other
Teach your elementary students about force and motion with this International Dot Day STEM challenge by Carly and Adam! This Dot Day STEM activity works as a great companion to The Dot by Peter Reynolds. This STEM challenge and over 500 more are available in the STEM Teachers Club Membership. Click for your $5 off coupon code.
