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MAXIMIZING Time in STEM CLASS - Miss Tech Queen

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Are you struggling with shortened class periods? The biggest difference between being a classroom teacher and a specials teacher is that you can not overlap time. If you're in the middle of a STEM challenge in a homeroom, you can always extend into the next period, and put your materials aside for the next day, ...

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The Wonder of Science website aggregates the work of Paul Andersen around the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)

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Bouncy Balls – Manage classroom noise with bouncing balls!

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A free classroom noise level meter, monitor and management tool. Perfect if your school kids are too noisy! Bouncing balls react to sounds from the microphone.

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THE SECRET TO MANAGING STEM TEAMS - Miss Tech Queen

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STEM is all about teamwork, however, students sometimes have difficulties working together. The ideal situation is for every student to participate, share their ideas, and complete a task. Instead, I would often find students arguing, sitting, and doing nothing, angry or sad at their teammates. I knew something had to change.

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Impact on Science Education | College of Education

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This tool contains over 200 (and growing!) examples of scientific phenomena for K-12 teachers.

Help us develop the Phenomena Finder! Use the links at the bottom of the page to give feedback or suggest additional phenomena.

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The Phenomena Finder is a tool that helps K-12 teachers find scientific phenomena through which to engage students in STEM learning. It contains over 200 phenomena related to engineering, technology, and sciences including life sciences (biology, ecology), physical sciences (chemistry, physics), and Earth and space sciences (geology, astronomy).

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STEM education is an important element of teaching and it is being taught from kindergarten to high school students.

I have a vast collection of Elementary STEM Projects and activities on my site from my many years of blogging. I love teaching with projects and hands-on activities. Here I have collected them all into one place for you to easily find them!

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. Here I have divided up my posts into each of those categories, but many of the ideas overlap with multiple STEM learning categories. STEM activities for kids are learning activities that implement one or more of those educational categories to teach kids real world skills and ideas. These projects are fun, hands-on and engage their minds in many ways.

Many educators like to incorporate STEM challenges into their lessons to encourage critical thinking and problem solving skills. It helps kids learn to solve real-world problems when they have to solve them on a smaller scale. They increase their curiosity when working on a fun STEM project.

STEM Teaching Tools

There are so many amazing STEM teaching tools available these days. I want to highlight a few that I have been involved in.

A few years ago I helped co-author an amazing book called STEAM Kids that has turned into a great series. There are now also STEAM Kids Valentines Day, STEAM Kids Christmas and STEAM Kids Halloween books, with the STEAM Kids in the Kitchen version coming soon!

Last year I also wrote a Summer Science Camp e-book with 5 days of lesson plans.

I have two books that integrate math and art as well as science and art: Math Art and Drawing Games for Kids , Science Art and Drawing Games for Kids. These books put the A into STEM / STEAM!

STEM ideas often incorporate simple ingredients and supplies such as toothpicks, straws, baking soda and vinegar. You'll see things like a balloon-powered car, egg drop challenge, lava lamp, crystals, marble runs and more! They are more than you average science projects, because they typically bring together multiple aspects of learning.

I also have some posts with ideas and tools for teaching the STEM/ STEAM subjects in your classroom or home.

Now let's get to some fun STEM project ideas! I have a lot of STEM projects on my site, so I have divided them up by the basic STEM categories. Many of them overlap in multiple categories, but I picked the main one for these pages. Hopefully this makes it easier for you to find what you need for your lessons!

Science STEM Projects:

Following are some cool science activities for younger kids. Oh, you know, just a few... We like science around here.
Oil Spill Clean-Up Science Experiment Edible Slime Recipes Flapping Bat Wings Pumpkin Solar System Exploring Magnetic Fields Shooting Star Spinner Poinsettia Ph Storybook STEM: If I Built a Car Color Science Experiments Crime Scene Science Lab Water Chemistry Lab Water Filtration Experiment Water Striders Insect Science Edible Frog Life Cycle Train Chain Reactions Easter Egg Pom-Pom Poppers Storybook STEAM: Inkblot Cloud Shapes Oxidation Experiment: Does it Rust? Magnetic Marble Mazes Magnet Bell Game Storybook STEM: Levitating Magnets with Ten Apples Up on Top Homemade Paintball Bombs
Magnet Pendulum (also see my post with 40+ Magnet Teaching & Play Ideas!)
Dry Ice Smoking Dragons Fabric Printed Nature Matching Game Food Chemistry: Turn Juice into a Solid! Kitchen Chemistry: Cake Experiment Leaf Transpiration Experiment Pitfall Insect Trap Leaf Chromatography Solar System Ornaments Magic Flying Carpet in a Jar Winter Science: Fizzing Snowmen Plate Tectonics with Kinetic Sand Science in a Jar Projects Rot Museum in a Jar Density Experiments Seashell Acid & Base Experiment Static Slime The Seeds We Eat: Seed Science Growing Mushrooms with Kids Fruit Enzymes Gelatin Experiment Storybook STEM: The Magi Ear Trick with The Ear Book Colored Convection Currents Geology Experiment: Stalactites and Stalagmites Formation Pretend Play Anatomy Lab Play Dough Human Anatomy Blooming Paper Flowers Food Science: Green Eggs Chemistry Magic Mushroom Monsters Shrunken Heads Halloween Science Insect Hotel Press n' Seal Experiment Rock Candy Geodes States of Matter Experiments DNA Teaching Ideas Old Faithful Geyser Experiment Autumn Science: Squash Comparisons Experiments with Trash Film Canister Rockets Quick Bottle Rocket Bathtub Bottle Rocket Rainy Day Science Making a Solar Still Growing Mold Science Solar S'mores Magnet Boats Cabbage Juice Science Science of Air Rainbow Science: Absorption Homemade Bouncy Balls Human Sun Dial Fantastic Foamy Fountain Microwaving Soap Experiment Self-Inflating Balloon Rubber Eggs Experiment Rainbow Milk Experiment Sedimentary Rocks and Fossils Project Periodic Table Battleship Teaching Chemistry to Kids Apple Science- How to Prevent Browning Cleaning Penny Experiment Back to the Top
Technology STEM Projects:

Add some technology into your learning with these awesome Technology-focused STEM projects and activities for kids
How to Make a Coin Battery Dirt Battery Rudolph Pipe Cleaner Circuit Paper Circuit Menorah Gingerbread House Paper Circuits Is it Conductive? or Not? Soft Circuit Christmas Ornament Color and Light Experiments with a Light Box Easy Play Dough Circuits Color Mixing With Light Lemon Battery Experiment Solar-Powered LEGO Car Origami Firefly Paper Circuits Firefly Sewn Circuits Programming with Dash & Dot Coding Apps for Kids Geocaching with Kids
Engineering STEM Projects:

These engineering activities will get kids building and play and exploring. WE LOVE building activities, so I hope you find a great one that will inspire your students and kids.
Bubble Blower Machine Popsicle Stick Bridge Storybook STEM: 3 Billy Goats Gruff Zometools Constructions Toys Cereal Box Drawbridge Straw and Pipe Cleaner Web Magnet Pendulum Blueprints and Architecture Templates Simple Machines- Gear Play Build a City Map Rubber Band Boats DaVinci Bridge Project Storybook STEM: Submarine Science with Papa's Mechanical Fish Ancient Science: Homemade Water Clock Easy Bridge Engineering Experiment Make Paper Hold Up Books Bubble Science: Square Bubbles Straw Rockets Build a Bug Viewer Water Pump Sprinkler Magic Puzzle Cube Homemade Straw Glasses LEGO City Earthquake Build a Star Viewer Storybook STEM: Build a Raft Balancing Stick Man Toy Roller Coaster Board Game Back to the Top
Math STEM Projects:

Archimedes Ostomachion Puzzle Geometric Math Art Geometric Heart Project Flexible Straw Shape Building Cupid's Arrow Math Game Area and Perimeter City Gingerbread House Geometry Great Graphing Race Measuring the Volume of 3-D Shapes Mondrian Style Fibonacci Art Heart Tessellations Hershey Weights and Measures Licorice Shapes and Angles LEGO Tessellation Puzzles Pantograph Drawing Machine Fraction Flowers Rainbow Icosahedron Ball Making 3-D Shapes Stellated Dodecahedron Rhombicuboctahedron Eye Dropper Dot Counting Cookie Fractions Candy Corn Fractions Apple Fraction Math Pizza Pan Clock Building Math Dominoes Pick-Up Sticks Math Peekaboo Math Game Thermometer Math Conversions Pretzel Patterns Toothpick and Marshmallow Geometry Fraction Trees Lock & Key Addition Puzzles The Money Game Division Puzzles with Money Groundhog Day Probability Game Pascal's Triangle Christmas Tree Fractions Snowman Fractions Save the Snowman Learning Game Snowflake Symmetry Pentomino Blocks Fraction-Decimal-Percentage Puzzles Graph the Olympic Rings Place Value Cards Storybook STEM: Each Orange Had Eight Slices Perler Bead Tangrams Leap Frog Math Math Fact Family Cards Math Checkers Math Wheels: Skip Counting Hershey Fractions Skittles Math Popsicle Stick Math Games Learning Fractions with Flags Multiplication Houses How Many Quarts in a Gallon? Hundred Chart Learning Ideas Doubles Math Puzzles Math Grid Game Roll a Whole Fraction Game Spill the Beans Math Game Sets and Venn Diagrams Multiplication Grid Game Weighing with Pennies Storybook STEM: One Grain of Rice Place Value Flip Chart
Thanks for reading! I hope you find some STEM projects that will work for your teaching needs.
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If you need STEM projects ideas, this is THE place to go! This is a collection of over 200 STEM projects and activities that kids love!

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The Georgia Department of Education is dedicated to preparing students for 21st Century workplace careers by providing high quality educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics fields. In Georgia, STEM and STEAM education is an integrated curriculum that is driven by exploratory project-based learning and student-centered development of ideas and solutions.

Through the Carl D. Perkins Perkinsplus Reserve Fund Grants, Georgia Local Education Agencies (LEA's) and the local CTAE Director may submit a grant request to supplement the resources of local school systems in rural areas; areas with high percentages of career and technology education students. Local school systems may apply for these grant funds to support the implementation of a Georgia CTAE STEM/ STEAM initiative infusing the integration of authentic application, project-based learning into cross-curricular standards.

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​​Instructional Resources for STEM/ STEAM

STEM/ STEAM Certification Information and Documents

STEM / STEAM Virtual Training Guides

​Field Guides

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The Georgia Department of Education is dedicated to preparing students for 21st Century workplace careers by providing high quality educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics fields. In Georgia, STEM and STEAM education is an integrated curriculum that is driven by exploratory project-based learning and student-centered development of ideas and solutions.

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Why STEAM Education is Essential | LEGO® Education

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Download this infographic from LEGO® Education to unlock key stats on STEAM Education.

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Learn computer science. Change the world.

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Every student in every school deserves the opportunity to study computer science.

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Provide links to videos or websites where students can watch and conduct simple science experiments using household items.

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Introduce students to basic coding concepts using platforms like Scratch Jr. or other age-appropriate coding websites and apps.

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We teach computer programming to elementary and middle school children. We offer evening classes, after-school enrichment classes, and camps.

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Take a virtual field trip to a science museum or a zoo. Use platforms that provide virtual tours and interactive experiences.

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VSC's traveling exhibition, Reinventing Reality: Explore the Science of Virtual Reality, will be on display again soon. Until then, dive into our program of online exhibits and activities!

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VSC's traveling exhibition, Reinventing Reality: Explore the Science of Virtual Reality, will be on display again soon. Until then, dive into our program of online exhibits and activities!

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Share digital puzzles or apps that involve STEM-related problem-solving activities. These could include math puzzles, logic games, or pattern recognition activities.

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Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia

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EEA has been serving environmental educators throughout Georgia since 1992. EEA supports environmental educators throughout Georgia to achieve our vision of a statewide culture of environmental literacy and stewardship. We believe environmental education (EE) encourages inquiry,

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Plantlanta State University | Youth Outreach, Sustainability, Environmental Education | Atlanta, Georgia

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Plantlanta State University is a 1-day school takeover where we will replace the curriculum for the day with hands-on projects to garner experiential learning rooted in sustainability.

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O*NET OnLine provides detailed descriptions of the world-of-work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, developers, researchers, and more. Individuals can find, search, or browse across 900+ occupations based on their goals and needs. Comprehensive reports include occupation requirements, worker characteristics, and available training, education, and job opportunities.