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April Earth Day READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges, Science, Engineering
Integrate Real-World STEM in your classroom during April with Earth Day Read Aloud STEM Challenges! Teach students about the importance of taking care of the environment, recycling, and more! Upcycle a Plastic Bag, Engineer a Solar Oven, Create a Tree of Peace, and Explore Water Filtration. Includes 4 STEM/STEAM Projects to go along with the following Read Aloud Books: One Plastic Bag by Miranda PaulThe Water Princess by Susan Verde*Wangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette WinterIqbal and His Ingeni
1st - 5th
Engineering, Literature
CCSS, NGSS
W.1.3
, W.2.1
, W.2.2
+24
Earth day wind turbine windmill and FREE Earth Day fact sheet and pledge sheet
Wind energy technology! Earth Day crafts for kids. Learn about clean energy with wind power through the technology of wind turbines. A fact sheet is also included with this craft for kids to learn all about it. The blades are formed by gentle cuts, hole-punching, and gathering together to fasten with a brad in the center. Step-by-step instructions with pictures are included. Learn all about Earth Day with a FREE Earth Day history fact sheet. Get them involved with a FREE Earth Day Pledge Sheet
K - 3rd
Engineering
Earth Day STEM Activity & Earth Day Science - Sustainable City - New Earth
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-STEM-Challenge-New-Earth-City-Print-and-Paperless-Bundle-5402773
2nd - 8th
Engineering, General Science, Social Emotional Learning
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Botany STEM Challenge - Plant Anatomy & Engineering Women's History Activity
Perfect for Earth Day! In this extensive Botany STEM Challenge, students create window greenhouses and observe plant growth. Then they use the engineering design process to build a plant transportation device to safely carry their saplings home! This challenge also highlights Katherine Esau, a pioneer in Botany. History, science, engineering, and math-- it is all included along with teacher instructions and student handouts. Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning,
1st - 7th
Applied Math, Engineering
CCSS
6.G.A.1
, 6.G.A.2
, 6.G.A.3
+12
Also included in: Women in STEM History Engineering Challenges Bundle
Bird Beak STEM Activities and Pollination STEM Challenge Animal Adaptations
Learn about bird beaks and pollination while reading a story! Get ready for a STEM adventure with Beth the budding ornithologist. Students will choose which challenges Beth should try as she watches birds. Students will learn about pollination, bird beaks and feeding behaviors, and other fun facts about various birds. Based on their choices, they will encounter different STEM challenges. Materials Needed: In addition to containers of water, you can use any materials you have, but I recommend in
2nd - 5th
Engineering
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
+1
Solar Oven STEM: Literature Connection Iqbal & His Ingenious Idea
STEM Solar Oven Challenge connects great to the book Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea by Elizabeth Suneby and Rebecca Green. This activity is a Great Book for Earth EARTH DAY or any other sunny day! Solar Oven STEM Challenge and Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea Flipbook is a packet of literacy activities that your students will love and be engaged in while reading the book. Lapbooks are great for keeping your students accountable and focused during book clubs and discussion groups. Other products
4th - 6th
Engineering, Literature
CCSS
RL.4.3
, RL.5.5
Also included in: Inventions STEM Activities Bundle - Engaging, Hands-On, and Educational!
Earth & Renewable Energy STEM Bundle | Earth Day And Environmental Units | K-2nd
🌍 Earth & Renewable Energy STEM Bundle | Hands-On Science Activities (Kindergarten–Grade 2)Inspire young learners to explore energy, engineering, and environmental responsibility with this exciting Earth & Renewable Energy STEM Bundle! This collection of hands-on activities helps students discover how to protect the planet while learning about real-world energy sources like the sun, wind, and water. Through fun challenges and experiments, students will design, build, test, and improve their
PreK - 4th
Engineering, Environment, General Science
Ultimate Earth Day Bundle | Posters, Activities, Worksheets & LEGO Task Cards
Celebrate Earth Day all month long with this Ultimate Earth Day Bundle! Packed with engaging, low-prep, and no-prep resources, this bundle makes it easy to integrate environmental awareness, creativity, and critical thinking into your classroom throughout April. What’s Included:Collaborative Earth Day Poster Students work together to create a large, meaningful Earth Day displayPromotes teamwork, creativity, and classroom communitySimple assembly with clear directions“Did You Know?” Earth Day Fa
K - 6th
Earth Sciences, Engineering
Light & Color STEM Bundle | Explore, Mix & Discover Science (Grades 3–9)
🌈 Light & Color STEM Bundle | Explore, Mix & Discover Science (Grades 3–9) Make science vibrant and engaging with this exciting Light & Color STEM bundle! These hands-on activities help students explore how light behaves, how colors mix, and how hidden colors can be revealed—turning abstract science concepts into fun, visual learning experiences. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school learners, this bundle blends science investigation with creativity and experimentation. 📦 What’s Inc
1st - 9th
Engineering, Environment, General Science
Read and investigate sun, shade, heating, cooling with Sam and Max
"Why does sand get so hot at the beach? How can we build something to keep cool? Little scientists, it's time to find out." This story of Sam and his dog Max will charm young students as they learn about how the sun warms Earth. Sam builds a structure to keep Max cool on a hot day. A simple worksheet accompanies the story to reinforce concepts. This teacher's edition includes alignment to NGSS standards K-PS3-1, K-PS3-2 (and others) along with questions to generate classroom discussions. Student
PreK - 1st
Engineering, Physical Science, Reading
NGSS
K-PS3-1
, K-PS3-2
Wangari's Trees of Peace READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM in your classroom and promote conservation and peace in your school with Wangari's Trees of Peace Read Aloud STEM Challenge!Students learn about Wangari and the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. They create their own Tree of Peace, and write about how they can promote peace themselves. Excellent resource to use on Earth Day or Arbor Day! Take students through the Engineering Design Process!Students design, build, and test their own Tree of Peace! After they have completed their STEM a
2nd - 5th
Engineering, Science
CCSS, NGSS
W.1.2
, W.2.2
, W.3.2a
+14
Earth Day Activity The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind READ ALOUD STEM Challenge
Integrate Real World STEM in your classroom and engage kids by learning about Wind Power!Teach about Green Energy with this Earth Day Science Activity! Students learn about the how wind power works. They design, build, and test their own windmill using the Scientific Method. Connect to a Read Aloud: The Boy Who Harnessed the WindThis STEM Project is a companion activity to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba. The book explores the true story of a boy who built
2nd - 5th
Engineering, English Language Arts, Science
CCSS, NGSS
W.1.2
, W.2.2
, W.3.2
+17
April STEM STEAM Challenge: Earth Day Edition
Earth Day is the perfect day for reducing, reusing, recycling, and STEAM! The challenge? Build a "litter bug" out of litter. The bug must balance on 6 legs, and all legs must come from the thorax. All your students will need is a little litter and a lot of creativity!
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (differenti
K - 5th
Engineering, Science
Earth Day STEM Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Earth Day Activity - This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills. Oh no! People are throwing away too much trash! Your students need to reuse some things from the trash to make something new and useful. What will they come up with? This Earth Day STEM will get your students using their critical thinking skills to solve this challenge! Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies.
Suggested Plan of
2nd - 6th
Engineering, Environment
Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
Wind-Powered Sail Car Engineering STEM Challenge
In this STEM challenge, students will use the engineering design process and many science concepts to design a sail car prototype while answering the following questions: How can we create a sail car that will catch air molecules from the wind and travel in a straight path to go the furthest distance? What sail materials and shapes will work best?Learning targets + keywords: I can work as a team and use the engineering design process to engineer a solution to drive a sail car as straight and fa
3rd - 8th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
+7
Earth Day Game Earth Day Project Spring Planet Earth STEM Task Cards Teamwork
Looking for Earth Day STEM activities that get your students building, problem-solving, competing, and thinking creatively? This Earth-Friendly Outta the Box Classroom Competition is a hands-on, high-engagement STEM experience perfect for Fun Fridays, science blocks, or an Earth Day celebration. Students learn about landfills, water towers, recycling, and creative conservation through a mix of engineering challenges, figurative language tasks, and team-based problem solving. Designe
4th - 6th
Engineering, General Science
CCSS, NGSS
SL.4.5
, SL.5.5
, SL.6.5
+1
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges Bundle | Earth Day and Outer Space
Paper Tube Upcycle STEM STEAM Challenge, Earth Day Craft Recycling Project
With this STEM STEAM art challenge, children are encouraged to think outside the “paper tube,” and craft something new. Use at your classroom makerspace or as a family homework project for Earth Day while learning about trash and recycling during a unit for preschool, kindergarten, first grade or second grade. Children will learn that upcycling and repurposing an object, is not only fun and useful, but a really great thing to do for our environment. This STEM STEAM challenge series was des
PreK - 3rd
Engineering, Environment
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-ESS3-3
Earth Day STEM Challenge Spring Activities Bird Feeder Craft Science Birds April
This Spring STEM challenge will show off your students' creative thinking skills! Students will learn about birds and build a bird feeder using recyclable materials only. The digital slide show includes fun interactive activities about birds and what they eat. This is great for Earth Day & all April long! ★ Save 30% off by purchasing the year long bundle & all future challenges FREE!THE STEM CHALLENGE:Your students will create a bird feeder out of recyclablesMATERIALS NEEDED:Use basic recyclab
1st - 4th
Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
+3
Earth Day STEM Challenge: Recycling Plastic Bag Project | + Entrepreneurship
🌍 Looking for more than a basic STEM challenge? This Earth Day unit takes students beyond building—students design, test, AND turn their invention into a business! Students become entrepreneurs! Engage your students in a meaningful, real-world STEM challenge inspired by the powerful story One Plastic Bag! Students will design, build, test, and improve a product using recycled plastic bags—then take it one step further by turning their invention into a business. This is more than a STEM activ
2nd - 6th
Economics , Engineering
CCSS, NGSS
RL.4.3
, RL.5.5
, W.3.10
+5
STEM Challenge Bird House Craft Easy Earth Day April Spring STEAM Activities
Build a bird house this Spring for Earth Day! In this STEM challenge students will learn about bird nests and build a bird home using recyclable materials only. This activity is digital and printable. ★ Grab all 5 SPRING challenge at $13.30 & save 30%. Click here to view the bundle!!!THE STEM CHALLENGE:Your students will design and build a bird house MATERIALS NEEDED:Use basic recyclable materials to create a bird house. You can even use reusable items like blocks, LEGO, magnets for younger stud
1st - 4th
Engineering
Wildlife Crossing STEM Challenge - STEM Build a Bridge Projects Grade 5
Engage your students with this Wildlife Bridge STEM Challenge—a hands-on engineering project that combines science, problem-solving, and creativity. Students learn how wildlife crossings protect animals and drivers while applying the engineering design process to build their own model bridge. Includes a two-page informational text passage on wildlife crossings and step-by-step student design pages. Perfect for STEM lessons, environmental science units, or engineering challenges in upper el
5th - 7th
Engineering, Informational Text
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
STEM Recycling Challenge Project With a Box April Earth Day activities Recycle
This recycling STEM Challenge will show off your students' creative thinking skills for Earth Day or anytime of the year! Students will learn about recycling and be challenged to create an invention using a box and recyclable materials only. This project is open ended & students can create what they want, but this will guide you through. The digital slide show includes fun interactive activities too. Tie in literacy with this lesson & begin by reading What to Do with a Box, or other recycling
2nd - 5th
Engineering
One Plastic Bag by M. Paul - Picture Book STEM Engineering Challenge
Looking for a unique way to celebrate Earth Day?
This is a great picture book to read. It tells about the story of a woman in Gambia and how she decided to reuse the plastic bags that were all over the ground. Not only are the bags ugly, they also hurt their goats. The goats would eat them and they would die.
Can you create something useful using plastic bags?
Just grab an assortment of plastic bags (we ask for students to bring them in from home) and some tape and scissors and you are r
3rd - 8th
Engineering, Science
Also included in: Personalized STEM Pack #21 - 10 Challenges
Earth Day STEM Renewable Energy Activities 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Grade Science Project
Looking for a fun Earth Day project for your 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students? You students will love this shoebox solar oven STEM activity! Challenge your students to design and build a solar oven that can actually cook food out of a shoe box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, black construction paper, craft sticks, and clear tape. It's a great way to learn about renewable energy while having fun. This STEM challenge comes in a print and digital version, you can choose to print out the pages t
2nd - 5th
Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environment
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