Looking for student-ready worksheets to run an earthquake engineering challenge in your upper elementary STEM classroom?

This Earthquake Shake Tower Student Worksheet Packet provides clear, student-facing pages that guide Grades 3–5 learners through the engineering design process as they design, test, and improve a tower built to withstand simulated earthquake shaking.

This resource is print-and-go and designed to help students work more independently while documenting their thinking, testing results, and design improvements.

What’s Included:

✔ Student-friendly engineering challenge overview
✔ Planning page with materials list and design sketch space
✔ Shake test data table with simple results tracking
✔ Redesign and improvement page
✔ Engineering reflection questions appropriate for Grades 3–5

Grade Level :

Grades 3–5 (Upper Elementary)

Format:

PDF | Print-and-Go -This resource is not editable.

Important Notes (Please Read)

• This product includes student worksheets only
• Teacher instructions, rubrics, slides, and materials lists are not included
• Click here for Full Lesson Plan, Slides, and Resources for this project
• Designed to pair with a universal engineering rubric or existing classroom procedures
• Works with any building materials (teacher-selected)

Looking for additional teacher support?

A short Teacher Facilitation & Flow Guide is available to help manage classroom pacing, testing days, and hands-on chaos during this challenge.

Ideal For:

• STEM & STEAM classes
• Engineering design challenges
• Makerspaces
• Upper elementary science
• Low-prep, hands-on learning
• Sub plans or enrichment activities
  

File Contents:

1 PDF student worksheet packet (Grades 3–5)

• Planning & design
• Testing & data collection
• Redesign
• Reflection

Looking for a complete Earthquake Shake Tower lesson with teacher notes, slides, rubrics, and student guides?

Check out the full Earthquake Shake Tower Engineering Challenge in my store.