Engage your students in a hands-on STEM engineering challenge with this fun Paper Tower Challenge activity! Students will plan, build, test, and improve a paper tower using simple classroom materials such as paper and tape.

This printable resource guides students through the engineering design process while encouraging creativity, problem-solving, teamwork, measuring, testing, and reflection. Perfect for STEM centers, science lessons, engineering units, morning work, early finishers, or classroom challenges.

What’s Included:

• Paper Tower Challenge cover page
• Materials and rules page
• Engineering design process worksheet
• Planning worksheet
• Paper fold testing activity
• Build-it recording sheet
• Test-it data collection sheet
• Improve-it redesign worksheet
• Challenge cards
• Reflection and STEM vocabulary page

Students will practice:

• Engineering design thinking
• Planning and building
• Testing and measuring
• Recording data
• Critical thinking
• Team collaboration
• Reflecting and improving designs

This activity is low-prep, printable, and easy to use. Just print the pages, gather paper and tape, and let students begin building!