Backpack Design Challenge
A STEM/maker design-challenge activity in which students design and build a model backpack meeting given specifications and constraints.
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Back to School Activities | 10 Science Experiments & Investigations
Teach scientific-method thinking through 10 hands-on science experiments using common household materials.
Stem Activity: Do you want to melt a snowman
STEM Activity : Do You Want to Melt a Snowman? An Eye-catching Resource for 2nd Graders! This instructional package has got it all - from engaging experiments to fun-filled activities that take you straight to the magical world of ice and snow. The Science of Melting - I Wanna Be An 'Ice Herald'! In this first experiment, get ready to…
STEM Challenges and STEM Activities for Winter
A STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) design-process resource for early-years/young students, providing lesson plans, design-process posters, planning sheets and challenge cards organized around a January/winter theme.
AAC-Language-Literacy Book Packet: Thanksgiving Rules
An AAC-focused shared-reading book companion for the picture book 'Thanksgiving Rules' by Laurie Friedman, providing core-vocabulary supports and literacy extension activities for students with complex communication needs.
Problem Solver Challenge
A STEM design-challenge activity (WhyMaker Design Challenge) where students identify a real problem in their own life and invent a physical solution using upcycled/craft materials.
BioMechanical Hand Lesson Plan & Activity Guide
A STEM lesson plan and companion activity guide in which students learn that robotic 'hands' (end effectors) are shaped differently depending on their intended function, and build a simple mechanical model of a human hand to explore this concept, with an embedded career-connection segment on (bio)mechanical engineering.
Model Tiny Homes Design Challenge
A STEM/maker design challenge in which students design and build a model tiny home using provided or upcycled craft materials, applying constraints and specifications.
Food Machine Design Challenge
A STEM design-challenge activity where students design and build a prototype machine that would make their favorite food on demand
Train Tracks Activity
A single-card writing prompt activity that uses a train-tracks visual metaphor to prompt students to write about STEM-related concepts.
Safety Alarm System Design Challenge
STEM design-challenge activity where students design and write pseudocode for a new safety alarm system.
Tunnels Activity
A single-page STEM design activity asking students to design a tunnel.
Design a Zoo Lesson Plan + Activity Guide
A lesson plan and activity guide in which students act as engineers to redesign an animal enclosure using a physical 3Dux Design cardboard-building kit, connecting engineering/design thinking to animal welfare and zoo careers.
Let’s Build a Boat Activity
A one-page hands-on STEM activity where students build a boat from found household/yard items and test whether it floats.
Community Accessibility Design Challenge
A STEM/design-challenge activity asking students to design a solution that makes their community more accessible, inspired by a real story of a homemade Lego wheelchair ramp.
3D Printing Activity
A brief one-page STEM activity sheet prompting students to design a model intended for 3D printing.
Carbon Footprint Activity
A short STEM craft activity that prompts students to think of ways to reduce their carbon footprint and record those ideas on a lift-the-flap paper footprint.
Utensil Design Challenge
Guide a hands-on maker/engineering design challenge in which students design and build a new eating utensil to solve a specific food-eating problem.
3-D Book Scenes Design Challenge
A STEM/maker-education design-challenge activity in which students creatively build a 3-D scene from their favorite book using upcycled/craft materials.
Ecosystem Activity
One-page STEM activity introducing four ecosystem types (forest, desert, marine, tundra) through a drawing-and-paper-craft task.
DIY Storm in a Glass Activity
Hands-on STEM activity simulating how storms form in clouds using shaving cream and colored water.
Electric Greeting Card Lesson Plan + Activity Guide
Hands-on electrical engineering lesson where students build a working circuit inside a light-up greeting card.
Plant Reproduction Activity
Activity Introduction An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about STEM subjects. Plant Reproduction Do you like STEM subjects?
DIY Sundial Activity
Hands-on STEM activity: students build and use a simple sundial to track time via shadow position.