STEM Activities | Fifty Lessons Mega Bundle

STEM Activities for an Entire Year

The Fifty STEM Connections MEGA Bundle

SAVE BIG when you purchase the discounted all year bundle with 12 months of engaging NGSS aligned STEM and STEAM Challenges.

Teachers are saying:

“These are fun but educational activities that challenge the kids to think outside the box, use their critical thinking skills, and work together as a team! Plus, the materials are so easy to come by- perfect for an elementary classroom. These show the ease at which this can be incorporated into a weekly classroom lesson.”

"This is an amazing product that gets students to build stamina in working through a tough challenge! The activities center around teamwork and collaboration which is an important life skill."

Includes Back to School, End of Year, Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and St Patrick’s Day Challenges. Fifty STEM Activities to support your classroom, camp, STEM Night, or after school program.

Get Caught Engineering with 50 STEM Lessons.

*Updated April 2023

50 lessons with a huge discount!

We have combined ALL our monthly bundles into one HUGE STEM BUNDLE.

A selection of STEM activities for every month of the year!

A great collection to support and to integrate your curriculum with STEM.

We have used these lessons in the regular classroom, in a STEM lab, at Family STEM Nights, at museum workshops, at summer camps and at a schoolwide Engineering Day. They are kid tested and teacher approved!

All lessons are still available individually and in discounted smaller monthly bundles. (Make sure you check that you don't already have them)

But the Fifty Nifty Bundle is our most amazing discount!

What’s included?

JANUARY

Winter Mini Snowball Frenzy – Have an indoor snowball fight with this catapult building project, Measure how far the catapult can launch and see if that can be improved.

STEM at Home: Winter Connections with Families- Family outreach with three STEM activities

to do at home in the Winter.

The Snowman Factory: Systems Engineering- Students experience a factory system in

solving an engineering challenge.

Saving Frosty: Materials Engineering – Can your students use materials engineering to

keep an ice cube from melting?

FEBRUARY

Positively Presidential and Mechanical Engineering- Explore engineering with this STEM activity in which students combine their knowledge of a President with what they know about mechanics and building structures. Students are challenged to create a statue prototype that has at least one moving part. Then they must create a stand to support their statue. 

Who Invented Candy Hearts? Reading Comprehension and Engineering- Learn the origins of this traditional Valentine candy and then do a STEM activity with them. A great way to integrate STEM into ELA.

STEM Winter Task Cards for Maker Spaces- 24 winter themed task cards for your maker space or centers.

Crazy Zany Contraptions and Simple Machines- Kids will love reviewing simple machines with this “Rube Goldberg” style activity!

MARCH

Get Caught Engineering a Leprechaun Trap -Design a way to capture a leprechaun using at least one simple machine. Perfect for an in class or a homework assignment.

Stem Catapults with Flying Marshmallow Chicks- Force, motion and those popular candies will have your students doing a cheer for engineering!

STEM Your Beaks -Your students will use their problem-solving skills to engineer beaks that can grab various bird food items.

Basketball and STEM! - All eyes turn to basketball in March so it’s a perfect month to engineer a basketball return system.

APRIL

Earth Day Task Cards – 30 enrichment task cards for a maker space or an Earth Day Center.

STEM the Playground- April showers bring May flowers but also bring need for a covered playground. Students will engineer a playground cover that not only keeps the kiddos dry but will also save the water.

STEM the Flower Show – Need a unique way to review flower and plant parts? Have them engineer a fantasy flower, label the parts, and create a narrative about it.

The Great Egg Drop Extravaganza- Engineer a structure to protect an egg dropped from a height

MAY

The Great Vegie Car Race – Combine a nutrition lesson, mechanical engineering, and simple physics to have an awesome vehicle race in the classroom! SO much fun!!

Flying Machine and STEM: The Great Paper Airplane Race- Get some paper and you are ready to go for a great event with several paper airplane challenges and awards. We’ve done the organizing and you and your kids build the planes. We’ve done this inside, outside, and virtually to great success.

The Trouble with Bubbles – Bubble making is always a hit with kids. Now add an engineering challenge of creating bubble making tools.

Beat the Quake – STEM, structures and earthquakes combine for a good addition to physical science lessons.

JUNE

STEM with Roller Coasters- Who knew that foam insulation from the hardware store could be so much fun as students explore acceleration, gravity and forces?

Sailing with STEM: Rain Gutter Races – More cool stuff from the hardware store!! Rain gutters are just the ticket to float an engineered sailing vessel.

S.O.S.: STEM an Ocean Submersible- Grab a can and engineer a flotation device for it.

STEM at Camp- Save the food from the bears with mechanical engineering. A great way to review simple machines!

JULY

Dive into STEM Centers: Eight ocean themed hands-on centers originally developed for a family event at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

STEM Sparks-Set Two: 36 ready-to-go task cards of invention challenges.

A Novel STEM Idea: Engineer a character statue with a moveable part from a favorite

summer reading book or movie.

Flying Machines and STEM with Soda Straw Rockets: Using straws, paper and pencils, these simple rockets can be used for measurement, variables, and graphing lessons.

AUGUST

Back to School with Team Building - Five quick engineering energizers to develop team communication and problem-solving skills. Perfect for the first week of school.

Engineering and Reading: Who Invented Paper? – Read about the invention of paper, answer comprehension questions, and then do a paper engineering challenge.

STEM Sparks: Maker Space Task Cards Set One - 36 STEM task cards that are perfect for a maker space, a center, or a take home kit.

Engineering Energizer:Towers- Challenge your students to design, plan, and build the tallest tower with marshmallow and pasta. A Quick STEM Engineering Activity.

SEPTEMBER

Ready Set STEM – An Introductory Packet to Start a STEM Class: 31 pages of general information that includes an overview for teachers, support materials, and a generic student notebook for STEM projects or a Maker Space that could be used with any project. Packets include job role cards, rubrics, inquiry questions, teacher guides, and student handouts.

STEM Connections with Family – Fall Packet: A family outreach project packet that has three challenges to send home for families to do together in the fall.

STEM in a Bag : Includes four different STEM activities in which students will analyze a mystery bag of materials and a related task card to solve an engineering activity.

Back to School Desk Organizer Challenge: Students will use their math and structural engineering skills to create a desktop organizer for their school tools. Perfect for quick assessment of a student’s problem solving and collaboration skills.

OCTOBER

Engineering a Flyin’Goblin – Engineering and aeronautics combine for a fun STEM investigation.

A-Maze-ing-STEM – Corn mazes are so much fun in the autumn. Let’s build a maze protype!

STEM Sparks Maker Space Task Cards – 24 autumn themed task cards to add to your maker space,

tinker lab, or center.

STEM and Bobbing for Apples- Let’s add a little engineering to the harvest party tradition of bobbing for apples. We can use our STEM skills to build devices that keep our faces out of the water.

Engineer a Monster Trap- Catch the monster with problem-solving and structural engineering.

NOVEMBER

STEM and Stories with Balloons Over Broadway- Reading, writing, math, technology, science, and the Thanksgiving parade. We start with our favorite November book by Melissa Sweet and then proceed with a variety of STEM and ELA related activities.

Rah! Rah! STEM! Engineering Bleachers for the Game- Lots of brain push up as we problem-solve how to engineer a set of bleachers.

STEM the Vote: Engineering a Voting Machine- Engineer a ballot box that separates ballots. Students will use their critical thinking and cooperative strategies as well as apply structural and material engineering and measurement skills

Save the Turkey: Reading, Research, and Engineering- Mr. Turkey needs a hiding place this month. Challenge your students to complete research and answer questions about turkeys. They will then problem solve and engineer a prototype structure that can camouflage and hide a turkey.

Engineer a Pumpkin House: Measurement and STEM- Your students have won a truckload of pumpkins. What to do with all that squash? Let’s build a pumpkin playhouse! Using pumpkin candies or small Styrofoam balls students will create a prototype for the structure. Students will use their critical thinking and cooperative strategies as well as apply structural and material engineering and measurement skills.

Thanksgiving: Get the Table Ready with STEM - Challenge your students to create a holiday table using newspapers. Can it also hold weight? Students will use their critical thinking and cooperative strategies as well as apply structural and material engineering and measurement skills.

DECEMBER

Who Invented Candy Canes? Reading Comprehension and Engineering: Who invented the peppermint candy cane is a winning combination of a STEM challenge and a reading comprehension lesson. Students will learn about the invention of peppermint candy canes before using their problem-solving skills in a related engineering activity. This activity packet provides a great way to integrate STEM and ELA in December.

Christmas Reindeer STEM Project- Let’s use our knowledge of force, motion, acceleration, and gravity to create flying reindeer. Newton’s Laws will come in handy too. How far can you send the reindeer? Remember to control the variables as you send your reindeer across the room and to have your ruler handy to measure the distance it flew.

Force and Motion: STEM Peppermint Race Car - Have fun with a Christmas STEM activity in which students apply their knowledge of force, motion, and inertia to solve a creative engineering problem. Students are challenged to design a prototype of a wind-powered car. A STEAM element has been added for decorating the car for the holidays.

Gingerbread STEM Project- Am Electrical Circuits Review Project- Let’s take what we know about electrical circuits and apply it to creating a gingerbread house! By combining STEM and ART, we can have lots of good fun and great learning during the winter holiday season. 

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