If you are struggling to keep your students’ attention and get to spring break, you are not alone! These easy STEM activities will keep your students learning and having fun throughout the season. This bundle of spring STEAM activities will keep your students engaged even during St. Patrick's Day, Easter, and Earth Day excitement.

Bump up the learning, fun, and SAVINGS with STEM Challenges for every season!

In each STEM challenge, students are tasked with using the design process and household materials to solve spring-themed problems. Grab this resource today so that you can take a break from planning and know your students will still be learning and having fun.

What’s included in the spring STEAM activities bundle?

Spring STEM Challenges

• Bee House Challenge: In this activity, students are tasked with creating a nesting site for mason bees.

• Easter Egg Drop Challenge: In this activity, students are tasked with helping the Easter bunny with new egg delivery technology and creating packages to keep eggs intact as they are dropped from the sky.

• Plant Maze STEM Challenge: In this activity, students learn about phototropism and design and build a plant maze to demonstrate how plants can turn toward light.

• St. Patrick's Day Snake Removal Device: In this activity, students will learn about the myth of St. Patrick. Then, they'll design and build a tool to help remove snakes.

• Wind-Powered Car Design Challenge: In this activity, students learn about climate change and renewable energy sources. Then, they design and build a wind-powered car.

• Bonus Material
  • An engineering design process rubric that can be used with any middle school STEM challenge
  • Supply lists for stocking your STEM lab with materials that work for a wide range of STEM challenges
  • Donation letters to help get supplies donated by your students' families and community members
  • Suggestions for where to find free or low-cost materials for STEM challenges

Each of the easy STEM activities also has:

✔ Printable, Google, and Easel versions of the student activities and worksheets

✔ Detailed lesson plans and slideshows for easy lesson facilitation

✔ Flexible building materials, so you can use what you have on hand

✔ Easy-to-use grading rubrics

✔ Certificates to celebrate your students’ successes

How can the spring STEM challenges be used in your middle school classroom?

• Keep students learning and engaged before the spring holidays
• Practice problem-solving with the engineering design process
• Use a challenge to keep students on task when you have unusual schedules or low attendance due to celebrations, field trips, testing, or other interruptions
• Plan special STEM activities for Easter and Earth Day
• Plan fun spring-themed activities for your STEM club
• Give students opportunities to practice 21st-century skills, such as communication, collaboration, and critical thinking
• Leave the middle school STEM challenges for engaging sub-lesson plans
• Assign the activities to be completed on virtual or asynchronous learning days
• Use the resources for extra credit, holiday break packets, home learning, or extension activities

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