STEMsational activities

Students engineer a race car and track.Using some creativity and some magnets, students race a car around a paper plate track. A great activity for STEM lessons and cooperative learning. Materials: • Large paper plate • 2 round magnets • Popsicle stick • White cardstock • Scissors, markers

This Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse Survival Pack includes everything your students need to engineer survival tools for a zombie apocalypse. Students use the engineering design process to create a fence/gate, water filter, solar oven, mobile greenhouse and a mobile cooler. Most materials are everyday repurposed items. Perfect for after school clubs or enrichment activities, Happy Engineering!

This STEM activity is aligned to meet the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Students interact and engage with one another while exploring how pushing objects of different materials can produce different results. Students also explore engineering a domino track. **Materials: Marble Set of dominoes A few different match box cars

Each day is a different STEM activity to try. There is a calendar to finish the month of June and one for July and August. Get creative! You never know what you may just create. Use the engineering design template for each project that you do. Template is included. These are perfect for those long summer days that can get a little boring. Made something great?? Be sure to bring it on the first day of school to show your teacher. Many of these challenges can be done using everyday house hold ite

Aligned with the NGSS for grades 3-5, this hands on approach engages students in recreating the 5 different ocean layers. Students also research the how each layer affects another. Materials (per group) clear jar food coloring corn syrup oil dish soap water rubbing alcohol funnels

Get you students thinking like engineers during the winter months with this igloo STEM challenge. Students will use the engineering design process to make an igloo out of sugar cubes. Materials: sugar cubes white icing (or glue) empty can (optional) ****includes a video on igloos******

Get your students engaged in a Chinese New Year STEM/STREAM activity. Students can read the story of Nian and then make a Chinese Lantern of their own design using the engineering design process or with some guidance. *****2016 is the year of the red monkey**** Also includes a video clip of the history of Chinese New Year Materials (for students designing their own): Different colored tissue paper Cardstock String Pipe cleaners Markers, crayons and any other decorating materials Tape/glue M

Real life engineering challenge. Your students get to become environmental engineers for the day. They are challenged to design a tool to clean up an oil spill using the given materials. Students use the engineering design process to complete the challenge. Includes a video of an oil spill. Happy Engineering! Materials: Tub of water Cocoa powder 1 cup of vegetable oil per group A bag of cotton balls Yarn A sponge Nylon stocking Scissors A few craft sticks Plastic cup (for proper oil disposa

A STEM challenge for little engineers just starting to design their own inventions using the engineering design process. In this project, students build a tin foil boat to see if it floats. Then they get to challenge themselves to see how many pennies their boat can hold.

Students get to engineer a catapult using the engineering design process. After they design and test their prototype, they get to challenge themselves to get peep chicks into a basket. Materials: A package of chick peeps A variety of craft sticks Plastic spoons Rubber bands Masking tape Wooden spool (optional) Empty Easter basket

In this fun STEM challenge students get to think like engineers and make a catapult that can launch Rudolph's nose on. Use the printables to help students follow the engineering design process. Happy Catapulting!!! Materials (per student or partnership) toilet paper tube ruler plastic spoon tape red pom poms Rudolph printout (included)

Get your students thinking like engineeers in this Valentine's Day STEM activity. Students are to create a working bow and arrow. Materials: (per group) Large Popsicle stick Rubber bands String or Floss Q-tips (for the arrows) Target (printable included) Includes a link to a video on the history of cupid. Happy Engineering :)

Get your students thinking like engineers as they get to design a bridge out of legos. This challenge takes them through the basic engineer design process. **Be sure to check out the Kindergarten STEM Journal Bundle****

Have your little engineers design a spider web. Students will watch a spider making a web then they will have a chance to engineer their own design using pipe cleaners. How many different types of webs can your students make?? Great way to introduce students to the engineer design process. ****Aligned with the NGSS*****

A fun activity to get your students thinking like engineer while they learn about Mardi Gras. Students work in groups to create a mini Mardi Gras parade by designing floats. ****includes a link to a video about Mardi Gras Suggested materials : Paper plates Shoe boxes Paper towel/toilet paper tubes Pipe cleaners Rubber bands String Construction paper Glitter Brackets Paper clips Paper cups

A perfect addition to a fairy tale unit to incorporate a STEM Lesson. Provides printables that take tiny engineers through the engineer design process and connects them to a well known fairy tale. Materials Needed; Straws Popsicle stocks Legos glue tape fan

There are millions of different snowflake designs. In this STEM challenge, students use the Engineering Design Process to create as many snowflakes as they can using toothpicks and mini marshmallows. How many snowflakes different snowflakes can your class create? ***Includes a link to a video on snowflakes**** Materials per group: mini marshmallows toothpicks

Students are challenged with first getting to Mars, and then build a colony on Mars. Students work in groups to go through the engineering design process to create a Mars lander, a spacesuit and then a colony that livable on Mars. Includes a video link on a Mars rover.

A fun engineering activity for fall. Students build geometric shapes using candy pumpkins. Materials: (per group) a bag of candy pumpkins a box of toothpicks

Do your Kindergartners love to build? Turn it into a meaningful journal that your students can use all year. This 20 page journal includes 8 STEM activities using simple materials to get your students thinking like engineers. You can even make copies of the design plan to use with just about any STEM activity. They'll love planning and testing these challenges!