Glow Day STEM Centers Illumination, Glow Slime, Glow Sticks, Family STEM Night

Illuminate your classroom with the ultimate fun STEM day or family STEM night!

Students create all kinds of glow projects using 12 low-prep STEM centers. The perfect resource for elementary classrooms, family STEM night, STEM club, and end-of-the-year parties!

Why STEAM centers?

STEAM centers expose students to a lot of different ideas, materials, and challenges in a short amount of time. These challenges keep the attention of students and allow them to pick up those valuable STEM skills little by little as they work through each challenge.

STEAM centers also give students the flexibility to work independently or with a partner or small group. Look through the preview to see all of the STEM centers.

How to use STEAM centers:

Each center can be used as a whole class STEAM challenge or you may choose the activities you want students to complete and have them rotate through the activities as centers. If you are doing these challenges as centers we recommend students work for 10-15 minutes per center.

Includes:

• Teacher instructions
• Center place cards for tables
• STEM worksheets
• Engineering Design Process poster
• Examples for each activity
• 12 STEM challenges
• NGSS Standards
• Common Core Standards
• TEKs Standards

Center 1: TechnoGlow Bracelet Studio

Suggested Materials:

• binary coding key printables (included)
• binary coding recording page (included)
• pencils
• pipe cleaners
• black and glow-in-the-dark beads
• dishes for the beads

Center 2: Luminart Glow Challenges

Suggested Materials:

• creativity printables (included)
• highlighters

Center 3: Glow & Build Engineering Lab

Suggested Materials:

• printable challenge cards (included)
• neon hashtag blocks

Center 4: Neon Robotic Maze Quest

Suggested Materials:

• printable start and finish cards (included)
• glow sticks
• robot of your choice

Center 5: Glow Strikes

Suggested Materials:

• printable scorecards (included)
• softball
• 10 bottles of water with glow sticks inside each bottle

Center 6: Luminosity Measure Lab

Suggested Materials:

• printable recording page (included)
• glow sticks

Center 7: BioGlow Discovery Zone

Suggested Materials:

• bioluminescent printable cards (included)
• neon play dough

Center 8: Neon Science Slime or Oobleck Lab

Suggested Materials:

• slime
  • Glow-in-the-Dark Elmer’s Glue 5oz bottles (or regular Elmer’s Glue and Glow-in-the-Dark Paint)
  • baking soda
  • contact solution
  • measuring spoon (1 Tbsp, 1/2 Tbsp)

• oobleck
  • cornstarch
  • tonic water (note: tonic water did work better than regular water when we tested it out)
  • glow-in-the-dark paint
  • measuring cups (1 cup, 1/2 cup)
  • measuring spoon (1 Tbsp)

• sandwich bags and plastic tablecloth (optional)

Center 9: Circuit Glow Dough Workshop

Suggested Materials:

• neon play dough
• LED bulb
• wired battery pack or
• squishy circuit battery pack (had better results)

Center 10: Stellar Illuminations Studio

Suggested Materials:

• glow-in-the-dark stars
• wikki sticks or pipe cleaners

Center 11: Glow Math Puzzle Gallery

Suggested Materials:

• math printables (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division) (included)
• pencils
• black markers
• highlighters (yellow, blue, purple, pink, green, orange)

Center 12: Time Warp Glow Clocks

Suggested Materials:

• clock printable (included)
• printable time cards (included)
• glow sticks