When I was a kid, we had a book about this egg drop engineering project, and ever since then, I have wanted to try it. We live on the third floor, so we have quite a long drop from our balcony, which is perfect for this experiment. If you don’t live in an apartment or …
Middle school
Blood. It either makes you squeamish or you just might find it fascinating. Kids often get REALLY into blood this time of year, thanks to the popularity of vampires during the Halloween season. We’ve explored blood during Halloween before, but this year, as one of our Halloween STEM activities, we made a red blood cell model that …
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 …
Ready to embark on a colorful and imaginative building journey with your students? The best way to bring fun back into the classroom after a long summer is with this pencil tower STEM challenge and our other STEM pencil project ideas! All you have to do is provide your students with a selection of colored …
There are so many STEM activities for elementary students, but what about middle school STEM activities? There are typically a lot fewer middle school STEM lesson plans available for teachers. But today is your lucky day, because today, we are offering a marble STEM challenge lesson plan that delves into the exciting realm of roller …
Octopuses are seriously cool critters with neat tricks like changing color in the blink of an eye and solving problems that are even difficult for humans to figure out! Through exciting games and other challenges in this octopus math activity, students will learn about probability and other ways that octopuses use problem solving and calculations …