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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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Balloon Car STEM Challenge: Engineering Design Process
Balloon Car STEM Challenge! Challenge students to build a balloon-powered car that can travel 5 feet! This STEM challenge will take your students through the engineering design process as they brainstorm, design, build, and test with a fun and engaging project. STEM challenges incorporate math and science concepts with creativity, innovation, and critical thinking. Students are provided with a Mission Sheet and a Student Handout that guides them through the engineering design process. Included
3rd - 9th
Engineering, Math
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
+4
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Using Geometry to Build a Safe Shelter!
An asteroid is going to hit Earth! Use geometry to build enough safe shelters to save the population. Part of the Asteroid Math Bundle, but this activity can be used alone as part of a math center or classroom activity.
5th - 9th
Geometry, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
3.MD.B.4
, 3.MD.C.5a
, 3.MD.C.7
+10
Space Club: Mission to Mars (Informal STEM Club for Middle School)
Mission to Mars STEM UnitLooking for a complete STEM curriculum that includes hands-on engineering design, real-world connections, science, and math connections all centered around one theme? Look no further with our Space Club: Mission to Mars curriculum! Read a detailed blog post overview here. These lessons are perfect for upper elementary and middle school. The instructional videos, storyline, and easy-to-follow design challenges make them perfect for an after school club, summer camp, or e
5th - 8th
Engineering, Math, Science
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
+3
Also included in: Mission to Mars: Year-Long Middle School STEM & Engineering Curriculum
Robotics Programming Maze Challenge
Sphero Maze STEM Challenge This free guide outlines how to guide your students to complete the programming maze challenge utilizing a Sphero robot and includes photos with examples. Students will use protractors and rulers to map out a course and program the robot to autonomously navigate. This engineering robotics lesson is perfect for informal learning environments or a quick STEM activity to promote habits of mind and develop making skills. Materials Needed: Sphero Robot such as BOLT+iPad,
4th - 10th
Computer Science - Technology, Measurement, Robotics
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
+2
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Space Club: Mission to Moon (Informal STEM Club for Middle School)
Mission to Moon STEM UnitLooking for a complete STEM curriculum that includes hands-on engineering design, real-world connections, science, and math connections all centered around one theme? Look no further with our Space Club: Mission to Moon curriculum! These lessons are perfect for upper elementary and middle school. The instructional videos, storyline, and easy-to-follow design challenges make them perfect for an after school club, summer camp, or enrichment learning. Transform your classr
5th - 8th
Engineering, Math, Science
CCSS, NGSS, TEKS
5.MD.A.1
, CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.7
+24
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
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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!
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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