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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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STEM Careers BINGO Game! (Middle & High School)
A BINGO career game for science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) careers! Includes career descriptions and fun facts about each STEM career. An easy, low-prep activity that can last from 20 - 60 minutes! Includes 40 game boards cover 48 STEM careers with a companion (editable) Google Slide presentation of each career! **Grades K - 5 school version here**Distance learning version! Play during a virtual class! Send students a copy of the included Google Slides version of the game. Each studen
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Math, Science
Also included in: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
Intro to STEM: Think Like a Scientist & Engineer!
Jumpstart your STEM class with 7 no-prep lessons for each area of STEM!This engaging resource introduces students to what it means to think like a scientist, technologist, engineer, and mathematician. Students learn to observe, question, invent, and reflect through simple critical thinking and research activities that are perfect for warm-ups, early finishers, homework, or sub plans. Each activity is low-prep, student-centered, and fully editable. Activities cover each area of STEM: Think Like
3rd - 10th
Engineering, Science
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Elementary STEM Careers BINGO Game! (Intro to STEM Careers Game)
A Low-Prep STEM Game! Do you know what a sound engineer does? What about a food scientist? This twist on the classic BINGO game will expose students to exciting science, engineering, and other STEM careers. Students will have a great time playing this game and learning all about the possibilities of STEM! About: A BINGO career game for science, technology, engineering, andmath (STEM) careers! Includes career descriptions and fun facts about each STEM career. An easy, low-prep activity that can
K - 6th
Math, Science
Also included in: Elementary Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
Back to School STEM: 6 Icebreaker Teamwork Activities
Before tasking students to complete rigorous engineering design challenges, educators should start with Stage 1 STEM activities. Click here to learn more about the Stages of STEM.Stage 1 STEM activities are perfect icebreakers and team challenges to promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. They lay a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a team, students will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity t
PreK - 12th, Adult Education
Engineering
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Digital STEM Choice Board: Growing Bundle!
Digital STEM Choice Board: Growing Bundle! Get 20% off! Bring real-world STEM careers and real-world connections through digital STEM choice boards! A fun, engaging, and low-prep activity, this bundle is perfect as an exploration activity, backup plan, or for a substitute teacher! Great for end-of-year STEM! What is a STEM choice board? A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose from different activities from a central theme. Teachers may have students choose one of th
3rd - 8th
Engineering, Science
Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Are you in need of year-round STEM activities? This growing bundle includes our most popular STEM lessons and engineering design challenges for middle school grades! 20% off individual products! The bundle includes engineering lessons to cover each science unit plus seasonal activities to keep your students engaged and learning all year long! What's included in the bundle? Below are all the units included to support a year-long STEM program for middle school grades. STEM Careers: Who is a
6th - 8th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Back to School Icebreakers: 5 Get To Know You Activities
Do you need a way to connect with your students for back to school? Are you looking to build a meaningful relationship that will last all year? Find the distance learning version of these activities here. This download includes 5 interactive icebreaker activities that will help educators get to know their students and build a strong relationship. Activities are centered around the theme of student sparks. Sparks were developed by the Search Institute, who explains them as follows: “Sparks ar
PreK - 12th, Adult Education
Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+7
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Tower STEM Challenges: 5 Icebreaker Activities
Towers are a great STEM activity to promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. This challenge lays a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.These activities take no more than 20 minutes as th
K - 9th
Engineering
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Digital STEM Choice Board: Virtual Field Trip!
Digital STEM Choice Board: Virtual Field Trip! Go on a virtual field trip with this choice board elementary and middle school! The digital STEM choice board is a low-prep student-driven activity that is great for a substitute lesson plan. Includes editable Google Slides and a printable student journal. These are perfect for a substitute lesson for a STEM classroom!What is a STEM choice board? A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose from different activities from a c
1st - 8th
Science
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Building Bricks STEM Winter Engineering Design Challenge
30 Winter Building Challenges! Your students are earth scientists on a mission to study Antarctica. They will first construct their winter wonderland (either using building bricks or paper). Then, students will receive one of the 30 challenge cards to solve a problem or add a creation to their landscape. They might need to save a polar bear stuck on an iceberg or build a home for walruses! This activity works well as an introduction to the engineering design process, in centers, or a makerspace.
1st - 6th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
+3
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Who is an Engineer or Scientist? STEM Career Game & Activity
Who is a STEM professional? Who is a scientist? Who is an engineer? Everyone knows that engineers are nerdy guys with glasses and scientists always have crazy hair! Help students break down the stereotypes around STEM careers by showing them that anyone, including them, can be an engineer or scientist! The game and activities in this packet will uncover your students’ misconceptions and highlight real living scientists and engineers that might not fit their stereotypes. Printed and digital ver
PreK - 9th, Adult Education
Engineering, Science
Also included in: Intro to STEM Bundle: Icebreaker & Teamwork Activities
Digital STEM Choice Board: STEM Careers!
Digital STEM Choice Board: STEM Careers! Explore STEM Careers with this choice board for use in upper elementary school and middle school! Includes a conversation with a real STEM professional! The digital STEM choice board is a low-prep student-driven activity that is great for a substitute lesson plan. Includes editable Google Slides and a printable student journal. These are perfect for a substitute lesson for a STEM classroom!What is a STEM choice board? A choice board is a graphic organizer
3rd - 8th
Engineering, Science
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Desk Name Tags / Desk Name Plates: Back to School STEM Activity (First Day STEM)
Back to School STEM Activity: Desk Name Tags / Desk Name Plates / Desk Toppers - Paper Circuit STEM ActivityThis hands-on engineering challenge is a great way to kick off the year and create innovative nameplates for your students! Your Mission: Students will first learn about circuits and then create their own light-up name tag or nameplate with a button switch in the back. Each light can represent different commands like "call on me" or "I need help". The activity includes digital and printed
3rd - 10th
Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-2
+5
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Distance Learning Games: STEM Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunts are a fun way to engage students during distance learning! During this activity, students are tasked with finding different objects that represent a STEM word. This activity can be used to introduce new vocabulary or concepts, to check for understanding, or to break the ice during a live remote class session! Download includes: STEM Words Scavenger HuntA perfect icebreaker game for distance learning, use these editable STEM scavenger hunt Google slides during a live virtual clas
PreK - 6th
Engineering
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Newspaper STEM Challenges: 3 Engineering Activities
Do you have a ton of newspapers and in need of some newspaper STEM challenges? Read below for three easy and progressively more challenging newspaper STEM challenges you can do right away! Click here for an editable STEM journal to use with distance learning, including digital and printable versions.These engineering design activities promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem solving. This activities lay a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges. Working as a tea
K - 12th
Engineering
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Ocean STEM Unit + Research Project (Great for Earth Day!)
Save 20% off individual products with this all-inclusive ocean study STEM unit! Students will explore science concepts through engaging scientific inquiry and apply an engineering mindset to two design challenges, culminating with a final project on researching and building an ocean animal observatory. These STEM activities cover environmental science topics and are perfect for Earth Day lessons! 5E Ocean Science Unit: Salinity, Buoyancy, and Density! (5 classes)With 40 pages of teacher slides
2nd - 7th
Engineering, Science
STEM Task Cards: Building Icebreakers (Printed & Digital)
ACTIVITY OVERVIEWGet your students building and creating with 24 STEM activity task cards using common materials. STEM quick builds are ideal for introductory STEM activities, STEM stations, back to school icebreakers, distance learning games, or the introduction of a new theme or concept. This packet includes options for a classroom activity or through distance learning with Google Slides and with printed take-home options. We love using these quick build challenges as an icebreaker during
PreK - 8th
Engineering
Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Building Bricks STEM Challenge Mats - GROWING BUNDLE!
Building Bricks STEM Challenge Mats - GROWING BUNDLE!Ignite your students' passion for STEM and engineering with our Building Bricks Challenge Mats! Designed for K-5 students, each set of our mats offer multiple unique, hands-on design challenges that spark creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Each mat features an engaging scenario and open-ended prompt, encouraging students to think like real engineers as they build solutions using building bricks (such as LEGO® blocks). These
K - 5th
Engineering
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Year-Round STEM Activity Bundle (Elementary STEM)
Are you in need of year-round STEM activities? This growing bundle includes our most popular STEM lessons and engineering design challenges for elementary! Activities are adaptable for 1st through 5th grade with guidance provided in the teacher notes. Need help with a STEM Curriculum Map? Grab our FREE STEM Scope and Sequence on how to use this bundle with a week-by-week pacing guide! 20% off individual products! The bundle includes engineering lessons to cover each science unit plus seasona
1st - 5th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
+3
Digital STEM Choice Board: Space Mission!
Digital STEM Choice Board: Space Mission! Explore a NASA mission with this choice board for use in upper elementary school and middle school! The digital STEM choice board is a low-prep student-driven activity that is great for a substitute lesson plan. Includes editable Google Slides and a printable student journal. These are perfect for a substitute lesson for a STEM classroom!What is a STEM choice board? A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose from different activ
3rd - 8th
Engineering, Science
Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
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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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