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A grades 5-7 scientific-method mini-unit that teaches variable types and experimental design through building and testing paper helicopters.
Pasta Tower STEM Challenge for Middle School Students. My Pasta Tower Challenge is an excellent way to get your students' excited for STEM in an engaging hands-on way. It also is a great way to introduce them to the world of engineering.
This is a great activity to help get students excited about the periodic table of elements! Students can work independently or in groups to research an element from the periodic table.
Give teams fifty straws and one hundred paper clips to design the tallest freestanding tower they can build within the challenge rules. Students sketch a plan, build, test a 100 g load for thirty seconds, then refine the structure and reflect on stability and teamwork. Teacher guidance, a blueprint page and a science briefing support the lesson, with extension questions connecting classroom designs to larger engineering problems.
Here is a ready-to-go terrestrial and aquatic biomes science research project for your students in 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th grade. Each student will choose a terrestrial or aquatic biome, complete focused research about it, and create an…
This hands-on activity combines creativity and problem-solving as students design and build a tower for the safety of the tiger in the novel, Tiger Rising.
A guided research-report packet that walks students through researching and writing a report on wind energy.
A project-based environmental science curriculum reading students through the science of waste (lifecycle assessment, landfill/incineration/leakage), the neuroscience of habit formation, and the zero-waste hierarchy, with embedded comprehension checks; per the title, later sections (not reached in extraction) are meant to be habit-tracking journal pages.