A whole month of daily low-prep STEAM activities for kids. You are going to love all of the low-prep STEAM activities that we have in store!
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!
Choose from 58 fun STEAM art projects and activities for kids to explore art while learning science, technology, engineering, and math, too!
The newly crowned Miss America 2020, Camille Schrier from Virginia, did a chemistry demonstration for her talent. It was an elaborate version of the classic elephant toothpaste experiment. This was the first time a Miss America participant has ever won with a science experiment for their talent. Unfortunately, I have seen people criticize her talent […]
Combine STEM and art with these easy and fun STEAM activities for preschoolers to elementary. Enjoy art with a bit of science.
DNA Gene Bracelet for Kids, an easy STEAM Activity using beads to create pattern bracelets. DNA is also a pattern.
Fizzy art is a fun process art activity for the kids that requires just a few basic supplies. This colorful STEAM project is low prep and engaging!
You and your kids will love putting together these simple helicopters and watching them fly! *Video below
Explore technology while practicing fine motor skills with this Submarine Activity for Kids. This quick and easy STEAM idea is perfect for your next ocean preschool theme! Technically, this activity is from the last week
DNA Gene Bracelet for Kids, an easy STEAM Activity using beads to create pattern bracelets. DNA is also a pattern.
Creative block is real. Download these Magna-Tiles® coloring and activity pages to get your creativity flowing!
Practice problem-solving and fine motor skills while exploring science and safety with this Broken Bones STEAM. Dramatic play STEAM activities are perfect for your preschool-aged learners. You're definitely not going to want to miss it!
Inspiring young minds doesn't have to be such a struggle.These STEAM project ideas have been tested and tried by kids all over the world to boost creativity
Hands-on learning isn't just for younger students! These hands-on activities for middle and high schoolers will help older students enjoy learning and stay actively engaged in the process.
Medieval Chemistry and Homeschool History. Science wasn't really dead during the Middle Age, it's just people fanaticized about turning items to gold.
Explore the amazing properties of homemade invisible ink using a heat free method, plus we share 3 more ways you can make invisible ink.
The anatomy of our hands is complex and intricate. To explore how our fingers on our hands are able to move, build a robot hand with your kid!
Sunscreen painting! Creative STEAM activity teaches the science of sunscreen and is a fun art project. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and all kids.
If you have middle school aged students, these STEM projects for middle school will be great additions to your collection of STEAM activities for kids.
Lots of hands-on heart and circulatory system printables and activities for classroom or home; Montessori-inspired activities for a variety of ages!
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Hands-on learning isn't just for younger students! These hands-on activities for middle and high schoolers will help older students enjoy learning and stay actively engaged in the process.
Try these preschool physics experiments and activities with your kids!
STEM education is thought of as relevant for first grade and up. But I believe…
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These fun and educational Anatomy Activities for Elementary Students are perfect for your homeschool human anatomy lesson. Kids will love them.
Your homeschool can work on building and designing some of the buildings and places you have seen at the zoo with this zoo themed STEM challenge activity. It is super easy to prep and you can use things you already have at home. Your kids will have so much fun designing different habitats for their animals. They can build so many things from an iceberg path for penguins to a habitat for lions. This free STEM challenge with a zoo theme is best with preschool or elementary aged kids.
Lots of EPIC Simple Machine Projects for students to make using things around the house! Learn about simple machines for kids - levers, plleys, inclinned plane, wheel & axel, wedges, and screw.
Hands-on learning isn't just for younger students! These hands-on activities for middle and high schoolers will help older students enjoy learning and stay actively engaged in the process.
Why not try teaching symmetry by immersing kids in it? Teach symmetry creatively by using Play-Doh, chalk, and other items!
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!
Buzz through spring with the Bee Pollination STEAM Activity! Now that more and more bees are coming out after the cold winter, it's the perfect time to teach children about how bees and flowers help each other out to accomplish each other's goals: Flowers getting pollinated and bees gathering nectar for honey. Children will enjoy flying their little bee buddies around and helping them gather pollen to deliver from flower to flower.
3 STEM Activities to Try When Reading Holes A family curse. Incompetent adults. Troubled and falsely accused kids thrown together in a manual labor camp. Holes by Louis Sachar is a great story for middle grades kids, and it works so incredibly well as a read aloud. Your kids will laugh, become invested in the fate of the characters, and come up with wild theories about what will happen next as you read the story. One way to feel like you are "in" a story is to work on a hands-on project. Dioramas are a classic example, and you can absolutely make a physical or digital map of Camp Green Lake as a fun whole class project. Why not take it one step further and incorporate STEM concepts as well for your next Holes novel study or book club? 1. Design and Create a Hammock The hammock is just a background piece of the story, a part of the setting. It's a constant reminder to the kids, though, that they are not at Camp Green Lake for rest and relaxation. Gather your materials: cardboard tubes, chairs, boxes, or a wire hanger as the end supports string, yarn fabric scraps, nylon tablecloth small figurine (Imagine it's the Warden. Of course the kids can't hang out in the hammock!) Design and create the stands (to represent the oak trees) and the hammock. Come up with an idea and a plan for the design. Create it and then test it out. Does it stand or fall down? Does it support the weight of the character without deflecting so much that the hammock doesn't touch the ground? Your students can even make it entirely out of string! 2. Design and Create a Digging Tool It wouldn't be Holes STEM without this challenge. This is actually a really tough challenge! I require that my kids use at least two different materials. The hole must also be a specific size (diameter + depth - try about 5 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep). Gather your materials: sandbox, loose dirt, bin of play sand, kinetic sand, etc. duct tape craft sticks, straws, cardboard tubes, small plastic cups, etc. Get ready to dig! Imagine digging a huge 5 foot hole. How do these kids even get out? I don't know that I'd be able to get out of a 5 foot hole! You can have your students design a way to simply get out (maybe a rope ladder that another camper holds for them, or a ramp? If you want to revisit simple machines, this is a great time to do it!). 3. Design and Create Palindrome Art I often get asked about STEAM challenges. This is a fun STEM challenge with a lot of open ended options! You can choose to make it a pencil-and-paper challenge or a digital challenge. I love palindromes. Something about them has just always appealed to me. Since Stanley Yelnats is a palindrome, why not make some palindrome art? Search for palindrome phrases online and then either illustrate the palindome or create word art with it! Palindromes that might be fun to illustrate: Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo. Madam, I'm Adam. Palindromes that might be fun to turn into word art: Lonely Tylenol Yo, banana boy! *PLEASE READ - there are some lists of palindromes out there that may not be suitable for your kids to read and/or illustrate. One fairly benign example is: As I pee, sir, I see Pisa. While not terrible, the possible illustrations that could accommodate this palindrome may not be appropriate! Fair warning. More Holes STEM Challenges In addition to the 3 challenges above, I have created a full resource to support the 3 challenges mentioned (with engineering terminology, recording sheets, etc.), additional challenges, and an inventor's workshop activity after finishing the book. I'd love for you to check it out! Pin it for later!
This math and art activity presents this would-be complex mathematical concept in an easy to understand, tangible way with Fibonacci art!
Of all the art and science projects that I have done, lemon and watercolor science has been my #1 fave for YEARS! Let's get started.
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.
STEM becomes STEAM as we integrate science with art in these awesome science art projects for kids! Get ready to get your mind blown!
Graphing comes to life with fun paper airplane math activity! Create, fly, collect data, & use technology for serious learning.
Want a new way to enjoy Fairy Tales with your kids? Read together, then explore math and engineering with this set of Fairy Tale STEM challenges for K-5!
Looking for the best preschool activities?! This list is full of hands-on preschool STEM, art, and literacy activities with no worksheets.
Experiment your way around the world with these 50 science experiments related to different countries and cultures around the world
