STEM

Other resources:

Explore Mystery Science

• Science lessons that are easy to facilitate at home, and fun! Minimal resources required

Learn more about coding with Hour of Code

Grades K-4 Student-Centered STEM Challenges

Take the Cardboard Challenge!

• • Get inspired by Cain and create your own cardboard creation!

  • Learn more about the Global Cardboard Challenge

Get a jump on Kidventor 2020 and design a new toy (use the slideshow as a guide)

• • This annual contest will open for submissions this fall

  • Learn more about Fat Brain Toys' Kidventor Challenge

Building Challenges To Do At Home

Use whatever materials you have (recycled objects, Legos, sticks, paper, blocks, etc.) to:

• Make the tallest tower you can (measure it!)

• Make a vehicle (it can float, fly, or drive)

• Make a shelter you or an animal would want to live in

• Design something that incorporates a simple or complex machine

• Design a house that includes at least three different polygons (rectangle, square, triangle, rhombus, etc.)

• Build a habitat for an animal of your choice. Make sure it has everything the animal needs to survive!

• Build your favorite animal or character

• Build the setting of a book, show, or movie you enjoy

Go on a Nature Hunt!

• Find a rainbow

• Find three different colored leaves

• Find a reptile

• Find an insect

• Find a natural water source

• Identify what clouds are in the sky

• Find something from nature for each of the colors of the rainbow

• Find an example of erosion

• Find a rock or a mark in a tree that is shaped like something (example a heart, a bird, etc)

• Find three kinds of birds

• Look for animal tracks (hoof prints, paw prints, slime trail)

• What is the biggest living thing you see outside? What is the smallest?