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Engineering activities on sale
Summer STEM Activity Build a Catapult & Design Process & STEM Challenge
Would you like your students to build a catapult? Students will learn about mangonels and trebuchets. Using the design process, students will build a catapult, test it, evaluate it according to the criteria and constraints, compare it with other design solutions, and improve their own design solutions. Students will learn about the mangonel, which uses tension to power the launch and the trebuchet, which uses a counterweight and gravity to launch the projectile. Students will love this engaging
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
...
STEM Project Cardboard Arcade | Caine's Arcade Challenge
Newly updated, now includes digital and printable versions! This STEM project gives students the opportunity to create an arcade out of cardboard! It is a highly engaging activity that will take your students through the Engineering Design Process! It also incorporates optional math concepts such as computation, determining area/perimeter, and identifying/creating polygons. It is simple to use just print and the students can begin building using recycled materials. Be ready for your student
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
Also included in: STEM Challenges Bundle
Summer STEM Challenge - Electrical Circuits Copper Tape Engineering Activities
Students will love these STEM Activities! In these STEM Challenges on circuit electricity, students will create paper circuits using copper tape. Students will use STEM engineering skills while creating all types of conductive tape circuits using copper tape, coin batteries, and LED diodes to complete the challenges. Great for science lessons on current electricity, STEM camps, and after-school STEM programs. Each STEM challenge can be done independently, though they do build in complexity.This
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
4-PS3-4
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
...
Also included in: 8th Grade Science Arizona Science Standards Full Year Science Lessons
Wooden block building challenge cards for Pre-School/Kindergarten Block Center
Ideal block center activity with wooden blocks to improve fine-motor development, problem solving and STEM skills. There are 15 construction task cards included in this set and children will love the challenge of building the various items: towers, bridges, robot, car, train, rocket etc. These cards are to be used alongside standard colored wooden blocks as shown in the pictures. THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING BUNDLE.This would make an ideal independent activity station or morning cent
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-1
Summer STEM Challenge Engineering Design Process Build a Rubber Band Car
Do your students love STEM Activities? Your students will love making a rubber band car to demonstrate potential and kinetic energy! This is a great STEM Activity using the engineering design process. Students will design and test their prototype and redesign in this STEM activity. Rubber band cars are fun and engaging and illustrate various force and motion concepts. ✅This STEM Engineering Unit Includes:Phenomena⚡Engineering Design ProcessLesson PlansScaffolding for Students Who Need ItDirectio
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-ETS1-3
Summer STEM Activity Engineering Design Process Science Engineering Practices
Great for summer science. Students will use Design Thinking to create a balloon car. They will design and create a prototype and conduct iterative testing to design and improve the balloon car. Students will consider constraints and criteria in the engineering challengeand compare design solutions. The whole engineering process takes about four class periods. Students will love this balloon car activity.This resource includes:A slide show on the design processDetailed lesson planFollow-up pagesP
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Wooden block building challenge cards Block Center Activity BUNDLE for Kinder
Wooden block building - Block Center Activity. There are 105 construction cards included in this BUNDLE and children will love the challenge of building the various items including: bridges, towers, patterns, animals, people, robots, vehicles, aeroplanes, rockets and much more. This bundle contains the original set plus the new sets 1 -6 (7 sets in total or 105 cards! - enough to last all year in your block center! THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING MEGA BUNDLE.These cards are to be used alo
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
Summer Stem Activity Wildlife Bridge STEM Activity & Engineering Design Process
Great for Summe Science. Do your students love STEM engineering activities? Students will love this STEM Engineering Challenge: Build A Wildlife Bridge. Students will learn how wildlife crossings save animals’ lives and protect drivers. Students will design a wildlife bridge using the engineering design process and engineering skills to help the animals cross the highway. A two-page informational text passage on wildlife crossings is included. ❤️Includes:Lesson PlanTwo-page informational text ar
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
Summer STEM Activities and Engineering Design Thinking for Stem Camp Challenge
Great for summer science. Students will love these STEM Challenges! Teachers will love the factthat the materials for STEM Engineering challenges are inexpensive and easy to find. These NGSS STEM activities will have students using engineering design thinking and conducting fair tests for these engineering challenges. Great for Summer STEM Activities! ✅Challenges Included: Sound SandwichStacking Cups ChallengeZipline ChallengePing Pong Ball LauncherFlashlightBalloon RescueFloat the BoatBuild a
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Summer STEM Activity Challenge Make a Flashlight & Engineering Design Process
STEM challenge: build a flashlight. Students will love engineering their own flashlights out of a craft stick! Students will use their knowledge of circuit electricity and insulative and conductive materials to engineer a small flashlight. Students will identify the criteria and constraints and use design thinking to build a flashlight. ✅This STEM Activity includes:Step by Step Directions with photosReading passage on circuit electricityFollow-up pagesCER FormGreat Reviews!Jennifer ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Makerspace STEM Activities with Simple Materials Like Keva Lego ® Choice Boards
What do you get when you combine makerspace tasks with choice boards? Make-Tac-Toe! These highly engaging challenges are perfect for your makers, regardless of how much space you have! These tasks have been designed around a central material, so that students all start with a basic material and then pull in other materials as needed. This takes some of the guess work out of the materials portion of the makerspace challenge (and translates well to mobile STEM carts). This BUNDLE of Make-Tac
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
STEM Challenges Bundle ⭐ 12 STEM Activities ⭐ Science, Tech, Engineering, Math
STEM Challenges Bundle: 12 STEM Activities (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math):STEM activities and challenges are great for developing critical-thinking, teamwork, design, analysis, innovation, and other skills important for young scientists, mathematicians, engineers and all other students as well. These activities have been carefully selected because their concepts align with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).STEM activities of this nature inspired me to become an engineer, an
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Types:
Wooden block building challenge cards Block Center Activity (SET 1: BASIC)
Ideal block center activity to improve fine-motor development, problem solving and STEM skills using natural wooden blocks. There are 64 construction task cards included in this set and children will love the challenge of building the various items: towers, bridges, robots, trucks, trains, rockets, patterns etc. These cards are to be used alongside standard wooden unit blocks as shown in the pictures. THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING BUNDLE. This would make an ideal independent activity st
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - K
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
STEM Emergency Sub Plans | 5 Day STEAM Sub Plans Using Just Paper
Do you struggle leaving engaging lessons for your STEM class when you have a substitute teacher? This set of 5 day emergency plans that only uses paper is your answer! Print and go plans for elementary students will make taking a day so much easier. This resource has 5 different design challenges that need only paper to complete. Each child will have their own engineering packet that will walk them through the design process. Plus, you will receive step-by-step teacher directions and templa
Grades:
1st - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Also included in: STEM Emergency Sub Plans Bundle: 5-Day STEAM Sub Plans for Elementary
Summer STEM Engineering Design Process Car Bundle Build a Car Design Thinking
This bundle includes my balloon car activity and my rubber band car activity. Students will love these STEM Challenges. Students will use the engineering design process to produce, test, and improve their cars. These units demonstrate various motion concepts, such as potential and kinetic energy. Students will use science and engineering practices to design and build a rubber band car and a balloon car. ✅This STEM Bundle Includes:Engineering Design Process STEM Challenge | Balloon CarSTEM Engine
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Popsicle sticks & wooden block building challenge cards (SET 1) - STEM activity
There are 15 construction cards included in this set (SET 1) and children will love the challenge of building the various items including towers, sea-saw, helicopter, bicycle, truck and various shapes. Many of these challenge cards require children to investigate BALANCE. These cards are to be used alongside standard colored wooden blocks and popsicle sticks as shown in the pictures. THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING BUNDLE.This would make an ideal independent activity station or morning c
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, K-PS2-2
, K-PS2-1
STEM - LEGO - 48 Task Cards - Famous Buildings, Structures, Landmarks
These 48 task cards challenge your students to recreate famous buildings out of LEGO bricks or other building blocks. These tasks cards will help your students to develop design thinking and engineering skills and are thus a great addition for STEM bins or your school's makerspace.The cards all feature the building task and a picture of the structure to give your students some inspiration. The task cards come in a color version, as well as a greyscale version.Here is a list of the famous structu
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 6th
Types:
Summer STEM Activities Engineering & Design Thinking Stem Challenge
Great for summer science. Students will love these STEM Challenges! These NGSS STEM activities will have students using engineering design thinking and conducting fair tests for these engineering challenges. Teachers will love that the materials are inexpensive and easy to find. These are not just crafts! Students will use real engineering skills and design thinking!Challenges Included: Balloon Powered CarPaddle BoatToothpick TowerWhirlybirdPendulumIn this second set of STEM challenges, student
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: 4th Grade Science NGSS PLUS Reading Informational Text Passages CCSS
Black History Inventors Posters Set
Looking forward to reinforce your teachings in Technology or Black History Studies? Here is the Black History Inventors posters set. Excellent for Black History Month Bulletin Board or just use as an instructional element for discussion or activity generator. It will do more than just decorate.Can be used reinforce a lesson, as a review or as an introduction aid.This Product includes the following 12 inventors:Alexander Miles Dr. James E. WestDr Patricia BathElijah McCoy Granville T. Woods Geor
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Wooden Blocks and Lincoln Logs - Block Building Activity K-2
An ideal wooden block building activity using wooden blocks and Lincoln Logs to encourage creativity, problem solving and STEM engineering design skills. There are 33 construction challenge cards and 22 step-by-step instruction cards included in this set and children will love the challenge of building the various items. This would make an ideal independent activity station or morning center for a K-2 Classroom. THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING MEGA BUNDLE.The activity has been designed f
Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Wooden block building challenge cards Block Center Activity BUNDLE
Ideal block center activity to improve fine-motor development, problem solving and STEM skills using natural wooden blocks. There are 193 construction task cards included in this BUNDLE and children will love the challenge of building the various items: towers, bridges, robots, trucks, trains, rockets, patterns etc. These cards are to be used alongside standard wooden unit blocks as shown in the pictures. THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING MEGA BUNDLE. This would make an ideal independent ac
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
Summer STEM Challenge Gravity and an Inclined Plane & Engineering
Are you looking for a fun activity on gravity? Students will love learning about gravity in these lessons. This unit includes a STEM Engineering challenge on using gravity to lift something with a counterweight system. Students will learn that the gravitational force exerted by Earth causes objects to be directed downward.Standards Addressed:NGSS 5-PS2-1. Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.Utah SEEd Standard 3.3.3Construct an explanation
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
5-PS2-1
, MS-ETS1-1
50 Olympics STEM Labs - Competitive STEM/STEAM Events Winter and Summer
PREVIEW AVAILABLE!LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? CHECK OUT OTHER STEM RESOURCES IN MY SHOP!Just in time for the Olympics, get these BRAND NEW PROJECTS! Then bust this set out again for the Summer Olympics in 2 years! Do a whole unit on physical science and hand out medals in your class! Or you can have your kids compete at home. Nearly all of these are not available in any other collection.***You get 30 Summer Olympic Events, including:archerybasketballboxingcanoeingcyclingdiscusdivingequestrianfencingfield
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Summer STEM Challenge Build a Water Pump Engineering Design Process
Great for summer science. In this STEM Engineering resource, students will learn about the history of the Archimedes’ Water Pump and they will create their own working water pump in this STEM challenge. Students will learn about how screws are really an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder. Students will have to think about how a screw works to lift things like water. Archimedes’ Screw Water Pump Includes:Reading thepassage on Archimedes’ Water PumpReading ResponseSTEM Activity Directions a
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
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