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The Vivify team is on a mission to re-engineer STEM education! We are dedicated to creating authentic, engaging, and accessible K-12 STEM lessons that progressively develop critical STEM skills, knowledge, and habits of mind. Designed by a team of educators and engineers, our lessons are low-prep and classroom-tested. Join the over 25,000 educators, and vivify your classroom today!
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Robot Hand STEM Project: Anatomy of a Hand Engineering Design Challenge
With only straws, string, tape, and paper, students create a movable hand to pick up objects! This STEM challenge guides students through learning about the anatomy of a human hand and how to design and build their own hand. Students will be amazed at the ability of their paper hand to pick up and move objects! Storyline: This challenge includes a Mission to Moon or Candy Grabber storyline to set the stage for the engineering design lesson. Instructional Video: The lesson comes with an instruc
4th - 9th
Biology, Engineering, General Science
CCSS, NGSS
6.RP.A.1
, 6.RP.A.2
, 6.RP.A.3
+5
Also included in: Mission to Moon: Year-Long Middle School STEM & Engineering Curriculum
Halloween STEM Activity: Candy Grabber STEM Activity
Fall or Halloween STEM ActivityThis engineering design challenge is perfect for a fun and educational STEM Halloween project! Please note: the word "Halloween" is not in the product - the pages are in black and orange with a candy graphic. Students will work in teams to design and build a device that uses the power of levers to pick up candy from a distance. After completing the project, use the provided handout to discuss the real-world STEM career as a prosthetist. Our students have loved thi
3rd - 9th
Engineering
CCSS, NGSS
6.G.A.1
, 6.G.A.2
, 6.G.A.3
+24
Also included in: Fall & Halloween STEM Challenges Activity Bundle
Ultraviolet Light Shelter STEM Challenge (Solar Space Science & Engineering)
Ultraviolet Light Shelter Engineering Design Challenge Students are on a mission to protect an astronaut from ultraviolet light over-exposure in this engaging STEM challenge. Using UV-sensitive beads, students explore how different materials absorb UV light and use the engineering design process to build a UV-safe shelter. This design challenge allows students to work in teams, apply the engineering design process, and connect science topics to real-world applications. The teacher will provide
5th - 8th
Earth Sciences, Engineering, Math
CCSS, NGSS
6.G.A.1
, 6.G.A.2
, 6.G.A.3
+25
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Ancient Egypt Chariot STEM Challenge - Engineering Design (Digital)
Ancient Egypt Chariot STEM Challenge - Engineering Design with Digital JournalsTake your students on an educational journey to ancient Egypt with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining some of the structures, wildlife, and inventions found in Egypt. Then conduct an icebreaker activity building a pyramid out of cups. Students will test their skills deciphering a code using ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics before moving on to the highly engaging design challen
K - 5th
African History, Engineering
CCSS, NGSS, TEKS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.A.2
+16
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Ancient Greece Simple Machine Playground STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Ancient Greece STEM Activity! Now includes digital journals. Take your students on an educational journey to Ancient Greece with this complete lesson! Learn more about STEM Explorers here. STEM Story: Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the history of the Greek mathematician Archimedes and introducing simple machines. Science Connection: Students will learn about forces and the six simple machines as they complete demonstration activities and build a simple machine playgrou
K - 5th
Ancient History, Engineering
CCSS, NGSS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.A.2
+8
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
United States Roller Coaster STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
United States STEM Activity! Now includes digital journals.Take your students on an educational journey to Ancient Greece with this complete lesson! Learn more about STEM Explorers here.STEM Story: Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining early roller coasters as well as kinetic and potential energy.Science Connection: Demonstrate the effects of gravity and potential and kinetic energyEngineering Challenge: Design a roller coasterSTEM Careers: Structural engineer and neuroscient
K - 5th
Engineering, Geography
CCSS, NGSS, TEKS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.A.2
+20
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Ancient China Printer STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Ancient China STEM Challenge - Engineering Design with Digital JournalsTravel to Ancient China with your students for an educational adventure with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the invention of the Movable Type Printer in China. Students will learn about inventions and replication as they make their own movable type printers! This lesson also includes an extension activity with instructions to build and test a homemade compass which was also i
K - 5th
Asian Studies, Engineering
CCSS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 2.MD.A.1
+3
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Chile Solar Car STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Explore the largest solar power plant in the world located in Chile as you take your students on an educational adventure with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the importance of clean energy and the use of solar power. Students will learn about solar cars as they use them to complete a mission! They must make their solar car navigate the mountains and ocean surrounding the solar power plant using the engineering design process. Students also learn
K - 5th
Engineering, Environment
CCSS, NGSS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.A.2
+8
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
Australia Safety Capsule STEM Challenge - Engineering Design
Australia Safety Capsule STEM Challenge - Engineering DesignTake your students on an educational adventure to Australia with this complete lesson! Read the letter from fictitious travel guides explaining the invention of the baby safety capsule (car seat) in Australia. Students will learn about distributing and absorbing forces as they complete demonstration activities and build their own safety capsule! Updated to include editable digital journals in Google Slides to support distance learnin
K - 5th
Engineering, Science
CCSS
K.MD.A.1
, K.MD.A.2
, 1.MD.A.2
+3
Also included in: STEM Explorers: Elementary STEM Curriculum + History Around the World
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Experience
The Vivify team is on a mission to re-engineer STEM education! We are dedicated to creating authentic, engaging, and accessible K-12 STEM lessons that progressively develop critical STEM skills, knowledge, and habits of mind. Designed by a team of educators and engineers, our lessons are low-prep and classroom-tested. Join the over 25,000 educators, and vivify your classroom today!
Teaching style
STEM transforms classrooms into an exciting world of curiosity, problem-solving, and creativity. Successful STEM education is an empowering interdisciplinary approach that brings math, science, and engineering concepts to life through challenging opportunities that mimic the complexities and excitement of the real world.
In our STEM classrooms, students apply math and science to a problem, using the engineering design process through technology. Our lessons follow the 3 Stages of STEM philosophy:
Stage 1 includes activities like tower challenges where students learn how to work together and develop essential habits of mind.
Stage 2 is where you introduce the engineering design process and add math and science, then use technology to solve a problem.
Stage 3 consists of longer, more complex challenges with a research component. In this stage, students solve a more open-ended problem and there is typically a final project that they present.
My own education history
Vivify is a STEM education company that is co-founded by Natasha Wilkerson and Claire Meschkat, two aerospace engineers turned educators who live in Texas.
Claire is a Pre-K thru 9th grade STEM teacher and STEM program coordinator at a Texas private school. She specializes in developing engineering curricula for elementary and middle school grades including the STEM Explorers series. Claire has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters of Education in Educational Psychology - Creativity & Cognition from Texas A&M University. Before Vivify, she worked as an aerospace engineer at Boeing Commercial Airlines, Boeing Space Exploration, & Air Tractor, Inc.
Natasha is the founder of Space Club, a K-8 informal STEM program that is now an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Cosmic Leap Foundation. Natasha specializes in research and development of engineering curricula and programming for middle school. Natasha has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Texas A&M University. Before Vivify, Natasha worked as an engineer for the United States Department of the Navy in radar and satellite spectrum management.
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