Use STEM engineering activities in elementary school as a fun, engaging, and meaningful way to tackle the Next Generation Science Standards.

If your kids love engineering, they will love this fun engineering challenge that combines engineering in two ways, structural engineering and demolition engineering. In orange wrecking ball engineering challenge, I challenged my kids to come up with a system where an orange could knock some plastic cups over without them throwing it or rolling it.

If you were given a piece of paper, tinfoil, six straws, two paperclips, two pieces of string, two pipe cleaners, three mailing labels, and an envelope -

Computer science is a branch of engineering that deals with the logical investigation of computers and their use like calculation, information preparing, frameworks control, advanced algorithmic properties, and man-made reasoning. The skills of computer science incorporate programming, outline, examination, and hypothesis. Computer science engineering includes outlining and advancement of different application-based programming. Computer science venture

Back to school day 4! All those extra supplies come in? Do you have a lot of extra cardboard? Put it to use with some Cardboard STEAM actives.

Explore 100 different careers and community helpers that are categorized into Holland’s Six RIASEC Career Types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional. Perfect posters for Career Day! Includes a digital version for use with Google Slides for digital learning. These posters are perfect for a bulletin board or classroom lesson. Review the careers and then have students use the reflection pages to think about what careers they would like. ✨Each poster lists: ►Responsibilities: description of the job. ►Skills/abilities needed to do the job well. ►Job Details -Job outlook: Projected U.S. job openings (low/average/good) -Pay: U.S. Annual Median Wages for this career. -Workplace: Location of job -Education: lowest level of education needed to do the job. ►Similar Careers ✨Includes 4 pages of reflection for students to think about what careers they are interested in. ✨All of the information listed in the posters is from: *The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook *The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) ✨90 Careers featured: Animal Caretaker, Garbage Collector, Athlete, Landscape Worker, Carpenter, Military Career, Construction Worker, Pilot, Custodian, Plumber, Delivery Driver, Police Officer, Diver, Truck Driver, Firefighter, Aerospace Engineer, Pediatrician, Computer Systems Analyst, Pharmacist, Dentist, Psychologist, Doctor, Robotics Engineer, Electrician, Software Developer, Surgeon, Optometrist, Veterinarian, Paramedic, Actor, Hairdresser, Architect, Musician, Artist, Photographer, Author, Reporter, Dancer, Singer, Fashion Designer, Translator, Floral Designer, Video Game Designer, Graphic Designer, Childcare Worker, Professor, Coach, School Counselor, Genetic Counselor, Speech Language Pathologist, Lifeguard, Social Worker, Nurse, Teacher, Occupational Therapist, Tour Guide, Physical Therapist, Server, Principal, Chef, General Manager, Customer Service Rep., Human Resource Spec. Curator, Judge, Detective, Lawyer, Farmer, Legislator, Financial Advisor, Retail Salesperson, Financial Manager, Ship Captain, Flight Attendant, Accountant, Mail Carrier, Baker, Paralegal, Bookkeeper, Pharmacy Technician Cashier, Administrative Assistant, City Planning Aide, Statistician, Cook, Surgical Assistant, Dental Assistant, Web Developer, Librarian, Microbiologist. ☀️Recently added: Astronaut, Fitness Instructor, Entomologist, Marketing Manager, Surveyor, Automotive Technician, Marine Biologist, Meteorologist, Nutritionist, Archaeologist. ❓Where can I find the google classroom link? Google slides link and instructions are on page 2. ❓What formats are included? -Pdf version to print out. -Google Slides version. This product is also featured in my Career Exploration BUNDLE Product Career Exploration BUNDLE ⭐Check out my other Career Exploration Products ⭐ Career Exploration Board Game Career Interest Survey DIGITAL Career Exploration Sort DIGITAL Career Town ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ✨Let's stay in touch ✨ ❤️Click here to follow my TPT store to be updated about new products which are 50% off the first 24 hours posted! Heart and Mind Teaching on Pinterest Heart and Mind Teaching on Facebook Heart and Mind Teaching on Instagram Heart and Mind Teaching Website and Newsletter (sign up for my newsletter to get access to my freebie library). ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Copyright 2020, 2023 © Heart and Mind Teaching. If you have questions please contact me: [email protected]

Need a real-life STEM engineering task? How about creating a model of a robotic hand? Have a quick discussion about how the hand works and then design a model. This challenge features choosing from several different materials for the hand and then creating fingers that lift and lower. The resource includes lab sheets, a scoring rubric, and photos and tips to make this successful for your students! #STEM #elementary

Engineering Career Research and Brochure Project has students utilize Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher to showcase their research about an engineering career of choice. In addition to allowing students to build skills in those programs, they also develop their skills in Internet research, reading, writing and critical thinking. In this project, students research an engineering career of their choice, following a list of required information and then create a tri-fold brochure in either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher to share that information. The project was created for grades 7-8 but could easily be adapted for older students. This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive. Files Included with this Lesson • Teacher Notes and Resources • Student Expectations & Rubric - Research & Brochure Project • Career Brochure Sample

The latest version of the "This, Not That" bellringers includes a change in format and some new activities for back to school.

In this exploration, students design, evaluate, test, and suggest improvements for a container that will protect their precious payload: an egg. The Classic “Egg-Drop” experiment has been a standard in science instruction for many years. Essentially, students are asked to construct some type of container that will keep a raw egg from cracking when dropped […]

Get your students excited about STEM with your choice of these two engineering mystery bag challenges for kids.

ALDO becomes WALDO! Explore a lesson design outline with lots of resources for mixing and matching strategies, EduProtocols, and digital tools.

Build a simple, programmable robot with personality that’s approachable for all ages.

Need some quick and easy STEM challenges for your classroom? Tower challenges are great go-to STEM activities that promote problem solving, teamwork, and communication. You can create these challenges out of almost anything: index cards, playing cards, blocks, newspaper, or plastics cups. Here are two fun tower challenges that my middle school students love!

Makey Makey GO allows today’s tinkerers, dreamers, and makers the mobility to invent anytime, anywhere. Makey Makey GO enables you to invent on the go – and change the world – with the snap of an alligator clip, transforming everyday objects into Internet touchpads. Small enough to fit on your keychain or in your pocke

Though it turns out the kit--which shows that engineering can be a creative and artistic endeavor--helps teach and inspire anyone who didn’t think they wanted to make robots or learn about programming.

This week we are sharing freebies related to engineering! Each week we will focus on a new theme. Look for theme-related posts on our site and social media too.

Favorite STEM Challenges: Ask the students about their favorite STEM tasks and these five are the ones they will mention! They love these! You will, too!

Robotics for School: Create Four Easy Robots Using Simple Materials: This story starts on October of 2022, when I volunteered to be mentor of Bahadir, an amazing Grade 5 kid, who required personalized STEAM lessons once per week. Inspired by the Superhero Cyborgs project by Autodesk and KidMob, my intention was to tr…

Unleash your creativity with isometric drawing! Experience the joy of bringing 3D shapes to life on paper. Dive into the world of precision and patience.

Do your kids give up easily when encountering a problem? We get it. We've been there, both in parenting and as teachers. A kid stops trying when they get stuck on a task. They don’t want to work on it anymore. They just want the answer, or for you to do it for them. It's our job as teach

We all have those moments in our lives that we will remember forever. One that I still think about is the tragic tsunami in 2004. The scenes of the devastated islands of Indonesia were haunting. And yet, with all the destruction there were people that survived. And for days after the tsunami rescue flights with airplanes

Kids will have fun learning about wedges and screws with this fun,hands on Wedges & Screws Simple Machines Lesson. Perfect for elementary age kids.

Build a robotic hand from simple craft materials.

STEM Earthquake Challenge - students experiment on cardboard houses & different materials to create the best structure to withstand a simulated earthquake.

STEM Elevator Challenge- Build a cranking elevator to lift a heavy load. A perfect challenge for Halloween, Easter, or any time!

Micro:Bit Puppet "Text Messaging"!: Nearly all of our wireless communication is done using radio waves*, including phone calls, text messages, and WiFi. With its built-in radio transmitters and receivers, the Micro:Bit microcontroller makes it super easy to build all sorts of projects…

If you are looking for engaging electricity lessons that you can use in the upper elementary classroom, look no more. Come read these ideas.

I’m sure that if you’ve seen my blog before you’ve seen that I have a bit of an obsession with cardboard. We seem to have a constant stream of Amazon or Wish parcels arriving at o…

Today there is an immense level of competition in the market faced by the individuals to start a career and get a decent job. Apart from academic education, it has become necessary to get trained a…

Great first electronics project for kids. Includes full step-by-step picture tutorial plus a video of car in action.