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"My students were engaged during the class period we worked on and I loved listening to their conversations as the worked. "
Amy M.
"Purchased this bundle to be used as "stations" at our yearly math family night. Activities were engaging for students and families. "
Barbara B.
Description
Low prep STEM projects that students LOVE! ❤️ This BUNDLE contains FIVE SETS (30+ activities!) of Simple STEM resources. Use for STEM class, sub plans, STEM family night, or a STEM club!
✅ What You'll Get ✅
- Suggested Material Lists
- STEM Challenge Tips: General tips for any STEM challenge.
- Teacher Notes: includes terminology and differentiation ideas.
- Sample pictures of completed projects.
- Paper plate STEM decor
- Recording page for each of the main STEM challenges for each material that guide the students through the engineering design process.
- ✅ 5 Paper plate challenges:
- roller coaster
- paper plate transformation
- airborne plates
- basket or container
- tower
- ✅ Craft stick challenges:
- Area puzzler - use craft sticks to make the largest area possible (math concepts)
- Craft stick catapult (kinetic and potential energy)
- Bridge span design (weight, buckling, deflection)
- Craft stick bomb (kinetic and potential energy)
- Marble run (force and motion, mechanical design)
- ✅ 5 Plastic cup challenges:
- Plastic cup telephone (sound)
- Sound amplifier (sound)
- Cup rollers (torque, friction, force and motion)
- Transfer device (simple machines, gravity)
- Anemometer (velocity, weather)
- ✅ 5 String challenges:
- Suspension Bridge (forces, tension)
- Musical Strings (sound)
- Archery (elastic potential energy and kinetic energy)
- Spy Maze (working in 3 dimensions)
- Winch or Capstan (simple machines, force and motion)
- ✅ 6 Cardboard tube challenges):
- Tube structure (stability, attachment methods)
- STEAM art (symmetry)
- Marble run (gravity, angles)
- Launcher (potential and kinetic energy)
- Strongest column (axial load, cross sections)
- Ball float challenge (Bernoulli's principle)
- ✅ BONUS File includes 4 Paper Engineering STEM Challenges (*please note this resource has previously only been accessible in my resource library but I'm including it here as a bonus resource).
- Paper helicopter
- Paper chain challenge
- Tessellation activity
- Paper column axial load and cross section challenge
- Graphic Organizer to use with any of the above challenges or the additional task card challenges.
- STEM spinner page - spin a design challenge (great for independent work).
- Calculate the cost worksheets to create Bill of Materials
- Self-evaluation and rubric options
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STEM Activities NO PREP Paper Challenges Engineering Design Process Science
Meredith Anderson - Momgineer STEM Activities
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Grades
2nd - 8th
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Standards
NGSS3-5-ETS1-3
NGSS3-5-ETS1-1
NGSS3-5-ETS1-2
Pages
190+
What others say
"My students were engaged during the class period we worked on and I loved listening to their conversations as the worked. "
Amy M.
"Purchased this bundle to be used as "stations" at our yearly math family night. Activities were engaging for students and families. "
Barbara B.
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Simple STEM Challenges with Paper
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Description
Low prep STEM projects that students LOVE! ❤️ This BUNDLE contains FIVE SETS (30+ activities!) of Simple STEM resources. Use for STEM class, sub plans, STEM family night, or a STEM club!
✅ What You'll Get ✅
- Suggested Material Lists
- STEM Challenge Tips: General tips for any STEM challenge.
- Teacher Notes: includes terminology and differentiation ideas.
- Sample pictures of completed projects.
- Paper plate STEM decor
- Recording page for each of the main STEM challenges for each material that guide the students through the engineering design process.
- ✅ 5 Paper plate challenges:
- roller coaster
- paper plate transformation
- airborne plates
- basket or container
- tower
- ✅ Craft stick challenges:
- Area puzzler - use craft sticks to make the largest area possible (math concepts)
- Craft stick catapult (kinetic and potential energy)
- Bridge span design (weight, buckling, deflection)
- Craft stick bomb (kinetic and potential energy)
- Marble run (force and motion, mechanical design)
- ✅ 5 Plastic cup challenges:
- Plastic cup telephone (sound)
- Sound amplifier (sound)
- Cup rollers (torque, friction, force and motion)
- Transfer device (simple machines, gravity)
- Anemometer (velocity, weather)
- ✅ 5 String challenges:
- Suspension Bridge (forces, tension)
- Musical Strings (sound)
- Archery (elastic potential energy and kinetic energy)
- Spy Maze (working in 3 dimensions)
- Winch or Capstan (simple machines, force and motion)
- ✅ 6 Cardboard tube challenges):
- Tube structure (stability, attachment methods)
- STEAM art (symmetry)
- Marble run (gravity, angles)
- Launcher (potential and kinetic energy)
- Strongest column (axial load, cross sections)
- Ball float challenge (Bernoulli's principle)
- ✅ BONUS File includes 4 Paper Engineering STEM Challenges (*please note this resource has previously only been accessible in my resource library but I'm including it here as a bonus resource).
- Paper helicopter
- Paper chain challenge
- Tessellation activity
- Paper column axial load and cross section challenge
- Graphic Organizer to use with any of the above challenges or the additional task card challenges.
- STEM spinner page - spin a design challenge (great for independent work).
- Calculate the cost worksheets to create Bill of Materials
- Self-evaluation and rubric options
Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.
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So fund and simple. I wont go broke looing for STEM things to do.
My students were engaged during the class period we worked on and I loved listening to their conversations as the worked.
Purchased this bundle to be used as "stations" at our yearly math family night. Activities were engaging for students and families.
This STEM activities bundles saved me throughout the Summer STEM Camp that I did! I had various grade levels from 2nd through 5th grade and these activities were able to reach all learners. All activities were completely hands on and absolutely engaging for each child. Parents were pleased and complimentary from their child's excitement and produced materials from the activities.
I'm so glad these worked out for your STEM summer camp! Thank you so much for letting me know.
Best,
Meredith
I love STEM projects and so do my students! These are easy to follow and are easy to find materials for. Thank you!
This was an excellent product for the end of the year. We had finished all of our instruction and grades were already turned in but we had a week to keep busy. The students loved these challenges. It helped them work as teams towards a common goal. Best of all, I didn't have to go buy a lot of materials. My staff was happy to contribute to our toilet paper roll collection and popsicle sticks are easy to find at dollar stores. Thank you, this was perfect for my middle school special education class.
This resource helped me with my STEM planning so that I could include a variety of ideas
My students enjoyed doing these activities when I was not at school.
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
NGSS3-5-ETS1-3
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
NGSS3-5-ETS1-1
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
NGSS3-5-ETS1-2
Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
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