While Thanksgiving crafts for younger kids can be tons of fun when kids are smaller, there are far fewer crafts that are aimed at tweens and teens in middle school! And why is that? Middle school kids often love crafts just as much as any other kid, so today, I am celebrating the big kids …
Try these Halloween STEM challenges for middle school and bring some spooky factor into the middle school classroom! Middle schoolers sometimes get the short end of the stick when it comes to STEM activities for kids. You see tons of preschool STEM activities and elementary STEM activities, but far fewer middle school STEM activities. But …
If you love fall, and you love chemistry, you’ll love these fall chemistry experiments for kids! Nothing says fall fun like fall STEM activities! Get back into a learning mood with these fun chemistry experiments featuring fall colors, apples, leaves, corn, and other fun fall themes! These fall chemistry experiments focus on chemistry with fun …
If you’ve been hanging out on the Internet recently, you may have seen the viral laminar flow experiment with a balloon. YouTube or TikTok recently (go follow STEAMsational if you haven’t yet!). In the laminar flow experiment, water appears to freeze when it’s coming out of a balloon. The secret to this magic trick is, …
Rainbow science experiments and rainbow STEM activities are a fun way to present STEM topics to kids in a colorful way. In this rainbow STEM activity, flip a rainbow using the science of light refraction. The light refraction science experiment takes just a few minutes, but it illustrates a really cool scientific concept in an …
I’m going to say straight away that the math behind how to make a Mobius strip is beyond me. Math is definitely not my strongest suit, and this form of infinite math is quite puzzling. However, I’m always up for some good no-prep STEM challenges, and as far as math challenges go, this is a …