Winter STEM Activities for 5th Grade

If you’re looking for winter stem activities for 5th grade, you’ve come to the right place! Fifth-grade winter STEM activities are so much fun to use as a jumping-off point for 5th grade STEM activities!

Keep reading to view the list of winter experiments for 5th grade, but first, check out why we love doing seasonal STEM activities with kids and make sure you have everything you need before you get started with your winter STEM challenges for 5th grade!

Why Are Winter STEM Challenges for 5th Grade Important?

The importance of STEM cannot be overstated. There are so many benefits to teaching STEM principles and concepts to kids that go beyond a simple understanding of science and how the world works.

A child who is well-versed in STEM activities, is set up to become an innovator, problem solver, and critical thinker.

Because STEM activities don’t have a “right” answer, children are taught to think critically and discover their own answers through logical exploration and using the resouces at hand.

No matter what career a child goes into as an adult, the skills of logic, critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving will help them succeed.

Children who are equipped for the future with tools necesasry to solve their own problems will be stronger, healthier, and more capable adults.

And that is why we love STEM education so much at STEAMsational, for all kids, everywhere!

Winter STEM Extensions for 5th Grade

A STEM activity uses multiple pieces of knowledge that include science, technology, engineering, and math.

A STEM activity takes the skills that a child learns elsewhere and applies them to create a solution for a problem or to learn more about how something works.

During the winter, we like to use STEM activities to learn about things like weather patterns, severe weather, animal habitats and traits, animal life cycles, and solutions to problems like energy efficiency and types of heating.

There is almost no limit to the STEM applications you can apply to winter themes.

Browse our list of winter STEM activity ideas for 5th grade below and choose some to try in your classroom or home this year!

Don’t miss using the January STEAM pack and the February STEAM pack to make your winter STEM lesson planning a cinch!

Each activity pack comes with 8 complete lesson plans.

Winter STEM Supply List

Winter STEM for Fifth Grade

All of the activities on this list are STEM activities, with applicaitons in multiple STEM disciplines in each activity, but I’ve sorted them below by the main focus of the activity.

The winter math activity section has specific winter-themed math activities that are independent from the other winter STEM activities.