Description
Sugar, STEM, and Strategy—Sweeten up your classroom with this engaging bundle of candy-themed design challenges! Have fun with these Engineering Design Process Lessons.
Perfect for upper elementary and middle school (Grades 5–8), this collection of high-energy, low-prep lessons is designed to spark creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration.
Whether you're looking for back-to-school fun, a festive engineering activity, or a reward-day challenge, each lesson comes packed with real-world design thinking, hands-on materials (candy!), and cross-curricular connections to science, math, and engineering.
What’s Included:
- Candy Launcher Challenge: Explore angles, force, and iteration through a physics-based marshmallow slingshot project.
- Candy Parachute Challenge- a physics design challenge
- The Meltdown Challenge: Heat Absorption STEM Activity
- Candy Grab- Design Challenge
- Candy Zip line Challenge - With optional extension activity
- ✅ Student worksheets, teacher guides, rubrics, and reflection prompts for every lesson
- Editable Google Docs links
Skills + Standards:
- Engineering design process
- Measurement and force (NGSS-aligned)
- Teamwork and iteration
- Real-world problem solving
Your students will love the creativity. You’ll love the critical thinking. Add some STEM sweetness to your curriculum today!
Looking to enrich and extend each project and make it more immersive? Use these worksheets bundle to scaffold and extend learning:
Candy STEM Design Challenge Bundle | Edible STEM Activities
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Description
Sugar, STEM, and Strategy—Sweeten up your classroom with this engaging bundle of candy-themed design challenges! Have fun with these Engineering Design Process Lessons.
Perfect for upper elementary and middle school (Grades 5–8), this collection of high-energy, low-prep lessons is designed to spark creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration.
Whether you're looking for back-to-school fun, a festive engineering activity, or a reward-day challenge, each lesson comes packed with real-world design thinking, hands-on materials (candy!), and cross-curricular connections to science, math, and engineering.
What’s Included:
- Candy Launcher Challenge: Explore angles, force, and iteration through a physics-based marshmallow slingshot project.
- Candy Parachute Challenge- a physics design challenge
- The Meltdown Challenge: Heat Absorption STEM Activity
- Candy Grab- Design Challenge
- Candy Zip line Challenge - With optional extension activity
- ✅ Student worksheets, teacher guides, rubrics, and reflection prompts for every lesson
- Editable Google Docs links
Skills + Standards:
- Engineering design process
- Measurement and force (NGSS-aligned)
- Teamwork and iteration
- Real-world problem solving
Your students will love the creativity. You’ll love the critical thinking. Add some STEM sweetness to your curriculum today!
Looking to enrich and extend each project and make it more immersive? Use these worksheets bundle to scaffold and extend learning:
