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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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10:45
STEM At Home: Space Lander Challenge
STEM at-home videos can be used to support distance learning for STEM activities. Led by an engineer, the videos are intended to support elementary and middle school students through fun engineering design challenges with a real-world connection. This video supports the Space Lander STEM Challenge. Click for the elementary version and middle school activity guide. Mission: Keep your astronauts safe when landing on Mars! Materials needed: Watch the video for suggested materials. Materials fo
2nd - 10th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+6
Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
14:37
STEM At Home: Superhero Arm Challenge
STEM at-home videos can be used to support distance learning for STEM activities. Led by an engineer, the videos are intended to support elementary and middle school students through fun engineering design challenges with a real-world connection. Find the full series here. This video supports the Robot Hand STEM Challenge. Mission: Learn how to build a moveable robotic hand, and then turn it into a wearable superhero arm! Materials needed: ScissorsTape Materials for robotic hand: string, 5 str
3rd - 10th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+6
8:19
STEM At Home Video: Mission Patch Challenge
STEM at home videos can be used to support distance learning for STEM activities. Led by an engineer, the videos are intended to support elementary and middle school students through fun engineering design challenges with a real-world connection. Find the full series here.This video supports the Back to School Icebreakers bundle or distance learning version. This activity is also a great companion to the STEM Careers BINGO Game: elementary version or middle school version. Mission: Design
K - 10th
Engineering, Science
13:16
STEM At Home: Plants In Space Challenge
STEM at-home videos can be used to support distance learning for STEM activities. Led by an engineer, the videos are intended to support elementary and middle school students through fun engineering design challenges with a real-world connection. Find the full series here. This video supports the Plants In Space STEM Challenge. Use with one of the guides below: Elementary classroom activity guideMiddle school classroom activity guideMission: Students will learn about what plants need to survive
3rd - 10th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+6
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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