Gears stem activity

If you've got kids between the ages of 5 and 12, then this collection of STEAM activities for elementary kids is for you. Check out our project ideas!

How high can you build? Your kids will love this STEM challenge and it requires little to no prep from parents/teachers. Start building today!

Gears out of paper plates. Maker Fun Factory.

Learn about the Laws of Motion while creating a Newton's cradle. This complete science and STEM activity is engaging and indepth. Students will enjoy the lab, exploration, and designing with simple supplies.

Summer STEM and Engineering at it's best! Challenge your summer campers to build a craft stick crossbow that launches Q-tips! This build is perfect for upper elementary, tweens and teens. Once you build their launchers create games to see who can launch the farthest, who can hit a target and who built the fastest launcher! Have kids decorate their crossbows with Sharpies or paint for a special STEAM touch! #SummerSTEM #CraftSticks

Are you looking to bring more STEM activities into your preschool classroom? I am sharing a fun and engaging preschool STEM activity using gears. Students get to combine mathmatics with engineering as they build different creations using gears. This hands-on, exploration activity allows students to learn through play. This is also a great activity for building classroom community and teaching cooperation. Studnets will love this exploration activity.

Try one of these free engineering design challenges and engineering projects for high school students to use the engineering design process.

The very first STEM Challenge we tried in fifth grade was a real-life dilemma. My idea was that a student group was camping in a desert and needed to elevate their food while they slept. They could only build the elevation device using the materials in their camping gear. It was fun and certainly

STEM Challenge for kids: build a Da Vinci bridge with pencils. Fun team project for a science class. Students learn engineering design process, physics, forces, fraction, gravity.

Looking for a fun STEM Challenge introduce green energy and ingenuity. One of our all time favorite read alouds is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. We created a Windmill STEM Activity where students investigate design and build 2 windmills and test which works better.