STEM Activity Challenges for the Whole Year! (Upper Elementary)

When students enjoy what they are doing, our jobs are so much easier! This collection of my favorite upper elementary STEM Challenges does just that. Students are engaged and have no problem getting started! Low prep-time, inexpensive materials, and easy-to-edit worksheets make setup simple. A solid grading rubric takes the guess-work out of evaluating group projects. Combine these with a video that explains everything you need to successfully run these STEM Activities and it’s easy to feel confident and prepared!

Please explore the preview file to get a full understanding of this resource AND test out a free activity!

***If you are interested in a differentiated version of these activities for grades K-8, please click here. There are 22 activities that span all of these grade levels.

This bundle contains 36 fun and engaging STEM Activity Challenges—one for each week of the school year! There are teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet), grading rubrics, demonstration videos for the teacher, materials needed sheets, and the related NGSS standards! For a List of the simple and inexpensive Materials used in this bundle, please click here :-)

******PLEASE NOTE: This product is very similar to the 6-8th grade version—STEM for the Whole Year (6-8th Grade). The 6-8th grade version contains the same activities and worksheets as the 3-5th grade version, but also has advanced extension activities and worksheets that the 3-5th grade version does not have. These extensions add another layer of challenge to the original activities. Please do not purchase both bundles. If you purchase one, please email me and I will send the other to you for free. sciencedemoguy@gmail.com

This pack combines my two 16-pack bundles (16 Pack #1 and 16 Pack #2) with an additional 4 STEM Activity Challenges (STEM Engineering: 4 Activities). If you've already purchased one of the 16 packs, don't buy this one! You can purchase the other 16 pack, email me, and I'll send you the 4 additional projects for free.

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You can customize the text in the Worksheets, Grading Rubrics, Materials Lists, and Teacher Instructions to suit your class! A link on the materials list page will take you to the Google Slides file. It's super-easy.

Each activity includes STEM teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet), a group-work grading rubric, a demonstration video for the teacher, a materials needed list, and the related NGSS standards!

In the teacher demonstration videos, I give you an overview of each activity challenge, talk about the materials involved and where to get them, demonstrate how to set up the challenge for the students, and discuss the science involved. Teachers have found these videos to be very helpful by showing them step-by-step how to run the activity and giving them a better understanding of the science behind it.

These STEM / STEAM activities will challenge students to work together in groups to complete the given task. These activities are fun, engaging, and the students will learn science in the process. Group work and problem-solving are at the heart of these challenges.

Each activity challenge will end with a real-world research question, video, or activity. It is usually an extension of what the students just discovered and learned. The students will be involved, excited, and looking forward to future S.T.E.M. projects in your classroom.

This resource also works really well in a Special Education setting. The activities aren't very difficult or complicated but mature enough for most of them to do independently.

STEM learning encourages engineering skills with experimenting, prototyping, inventing, and creating. Students use their imaginations to brainstorm solutions and use their critical thinking skills to determine which solutions work best and why. STEM projects can help kids explore new concepts and principles and expose them to real-world applications. This could seem overwhelming, but the low-prep STEM labs in this bundle facilitate STEM learning using simple low-cost materials and fun activities! They spark creativity and challenge students to imagine, plan, build, test, and revise!

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