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The Egg Drop Challenge is a classic project for students. In this new take on the idea, students are tasked with designing a spacecraft for NASA that will safely transport its passengers (raw eggs) to Mars. This activity contains the full lesson, materials list, standards, links to supporting videos, an assessment rubric, and a student lab booklet.

How about a delicious math activity to teach the distributive property? In this STEM lesson, students learn about the distributive property using tasty M&Ms. Includes instructions, student worksheets, and CCSS for math.

Scientists use classification to place living things in groups based on their relationships to each other. In this fun activity, students will learn about how scientists classify animals into kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. They will then apply their knowledge to classify aliens into kingdom, phylum, and class. This lesson includes all resources and handouts needed for this activity along with clear instructions. Includes NGSS. This work is licensed under a Creati

Let's have fun learning about genetics! In this exciting STEM lesson, students learn about inherited traits and punnett squares as they breed their own clutch of dragons. Students will get hands on and create their brand new dragons using common school supplies. This lesson includes a full teacher lesson plan with NGSS alignment along with multiple student handouts and worksheets.

This is a fun lab for learning about adaptations. Students will rotate between stations with different types of 'bird food' and use various tools designated as beaks to decide which one works best. Students will collect and interpret data, and graph their results. Great for science and math!

Don't be fooled by the title! This fun hands-on genetics lesson can be done any time of the year. Help your students understand how traits are inherited by determining the potential offspring of plastic egg parents using punnett squares. This lesson includes the NGSS, a teacher lesson plan, a student worksheet, and discussion questions. If you are looking for an easy, engaging way to teach genetics, this lab is for you!

What's more fun than a lesson you can eat when you are finished? In this tasty STEM lesson, students learn about animal adaptations and camouflage using M&M candies. Lesson includes full teacher lesson plan aligned to the NGSS, student worksheets, and a Powerpoint slideshow.

In this engaging lab, students will design a model of what happens when two air masses meet to form a front. They will learn about types of fronts, and how they affect weather prediction. This activity includes instructions for the physical model, as well as a variety of virtual labs and models, and a short student assessment piece. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

When we look at traditional models of the solar system, the distances between planets does not seem that great. In reality, the planets are millions of miles apart. In this activity, we’ll create a scale model to help show the immense distances between planets in our solar system. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Learn about levers and angles with this fun siege engine activity perfect for Halloween! Students will construct simple catapults with craft sticks and rubber bands, and compete to see who can launch a candy pumpkin the farthest. Includes NGSS and CCSS, teacher instructions, student data sheets, writing assignment, and a rubric.

Learn about waves with this fun, hands-on STEM lesson. Students will learn about waves and how they work, and culminate with the creation of a model wave machine. Includes resources, instructions, worksheets, and NGSS/CCSS.

In this fun STEM lab, students will learn about crystal growth and crystalline structures while making their own crystal snowflake using a borax solution. They will learn about saturation, evaporation, and precipitation as related to crystal growth. Includes lesson plan, standards from the NGSS, and assessment activities. A perfect wintertime activity.

Genetics is a fascinating subject, but also one that students can struggle with. This engaging STEM lesson combines genetics and 3D design in an activity sure to please your class. While this project is designed for a final 3D printed object, it can be used without a 3D printer by using modeling clay instead. Your students will learn about inherited traits using fictional creatures called rebops. They will combine DNA from parent rebops to find the genotype and phenotype of a potential offsp

Let your students become engineers in this engaging engineering activity. Using only marshmallows and spaghetti, students compete to build the tallest tower that can support weight. Includes lesson instructions, writing assignment, and NGSS/CCSS.

What a fun way to learn about ecosystems! Students will choose and research an ecosystem, and then 'discover' a new insect species there. They will then create and print a 3-D model of their insect. Don't have a 3-D printer? Don't worry, the lesson includes some alternatives. The zip file for this activity includes the full lesson, complete with NGSS standards, as well as the Field Journal printable for students. Another fun STEM lesson from Tech For Teachers!