STEM Activities
Simple STEM Activities for Kids
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Balancing Stick Our school has this exploration time every Fridays where the children will experiment and explore things that are new to them. With this activity, I made an introduction about gravity with the game of Balloon Floating where...
Building Robots out of Boxes For a fun STEAM Activity Primrose School of Midland at Westridge made some fantastic-looking robots with their students as part of a fun STEAM activity. The children talked about robots and how they can help us with everything from vacuuming ( like a...
STEAM Pendulum Painting Activity At Early Childhood Development Center ( ECDC, they did a fun STEAM art activity! They did pendulum painting and it was great fun to witness. The class was amazed at how the pendulum moved around thanks to the power of gravity making...
Pompom Motorskills Materials used: spoons, kitchen tissue roll, pompoms, and pincher. First, you need to cut all your spoons handle and leave around 1. 5 cm or enough length that you can slit it in the tissue roll. Next, make some slits around your...
Building Towers with Clothespins and Craft Sticks At Glenwood Country Day School, they built towers out of craft sticks that had clothespins involved to assist with making everything sturdy and easy to build! Materials needed for this activity To do this building activity...
Creating Yeti Traps Classroom Project They did a really creative craft at Onslow County Schools Early Childhood Initiatives & Head Start. There was a stuffed Yeti doll in the classroom that escaped! The students then were charged with using their creativity to create...
Learning About Black History STEM Pioneers At Early Child Development Center the kindergarten students were excited to learn all about Katherine Johnson. She was a mathematician at NASA who used her math skills to help with the Apollo project ( that put people on the Moon) in...
Engineering Activity With Shaving Cream and Foam Blocks At Little Seeds Children's Center, they did a fun engineering activity! The class imagined they were engineers who were creating buildings out of foam blocks. To help make the blocks stick together like real bricks the children...
Building a STEM Skyscraper Out of Toothpicks and Marshmallows At Children's Emporium Pre-School, they did a fun STEM activity! They learned about giant buildings created by people such as skyscrapers and discussed how such buildings need to be built in certain ways in order to NOT topple over. ...
Holiday STEM Activity With Wrapping Paper Tubes With all the holidays this December, there are many wrapping paper tubes that are going to be leftover. At Bambino Learn and Palyhome, they used these leftover cardboard wrapping paper tubes for a delightful STEM balancing activity!...
Fun With Ramps and Tubes At Little Robles Bilingual Preschool they had a fantastic time playing with ramps and tubes! It was a great time using an assortment of tubes and things as ramps to watch balls roll around. Early STEM Education Playing with...
Three Billy Goats Gruff Storyboard Craft At Safari Kid Sacramento Preschool, they read the wonderful children's book, "Three Billy Goats Gruff. " After reading the story the kids wanted to make their own storyboards breaking-down the story about the goats who face a troll...
Foil Rivers Water-Play Activity for Kids At Stratton Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colorado the Kindergarten students of Mrs. Ferguson enjoyed this fun water-play activity. The weather was beautiful so it was a perfect, "Wear your swimsuit to school, "...
English Teacher in Japan I'm an English teacher based in Japan. My husband and I run a small school with a unique children's after school program which teaches English in combination with STEAM activities. We love what we do and all our students...
Two Fun STEM Activities for PreK Students At Oglethorpe Children’s Academy in Lexington, Georgia they did two fun STEM activities with the PreK classes. It was part of how every day at the school they do both small-group as well as large-group activities designed to...
Dr. Martin Luther King STEAM Day Celebration Craft At Indian Creek School in Crownsville, Maryland, the class was having a STEAM Day celebration on Friday. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was incorporated into this celebration by having the 1st-4th grade students learning about...
Attachment Challenge for 3rd-Grade Students For their specials classes, the 3rd-grade students at Currier Elementary School in West Chicago, Illinois, explored their sculpture center's materials. As a part of this, the class did the attachment challenge. ...
Egg Shell Strength Experiment At Amberwood Academy in Lauderhill, Florida they did a fantastic egg shell strength experiment! The students learned about how while if you poke or try to crack an egg on its side it may shatter, but due to its dome...
Leak-Proof Bag Experiment At Hi Five Academy in Davie, Florida, the students had a great time doing this leak-proof bag experiment. Hi Five Academy, Davie, Florida hifive-academy. com They were astounded to see that when sharp...
STEM/STEAM Tower Building Challenge They had STEM Day at Jamesburg Public Schools in Jamesburg, New Jersey, and Karen Harris was kind enough to share with us some great pictures of students tackling the challenge! The Challenge's Rules The rules...