STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (Middle School)

This Junior High School STEM bundle is for kids in 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade. It contains 16 fun activities, teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet), grading rubrics, a demonstration video for the teacher, a materials needed sheet, and the related NGSS standards! For a List of the simple and inexpensive Materials used in this bundle, please click here.

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***If you are interested in a differentiated version of these activities for grades K-8, please click here. There are 22 activities that span all of these grade levels.

******PLEASE NOTE: This product is very similar to the 3-5th grade version— STEM Activity Challenges 16 Pack #2 (3-5th Grade). Please don't buy both bundles. If you purchase one, please email me and I will send the other to you for free. sciencedemoguy@gmail.com

You can customize the text in the Worksheets, Grading Rubrics, Materials Lists, and Teacher Instructions to suit your class! A link on the materials list page will take you to the Google Slides file. It's super-easy.

Each activity includes STEM teacher instructions, student instructions (worksheet), a group-work grading rubric, a demonstration video for the teacher, a materials needed list, and the related NGSS standards!

In the teacher demonstration video, I give you an overview of the activity challenge, talk about the materials involved and where to get them, demonstrate how to set up the challenge for the students, and discuss the science involved. Teachers have found these videos to be very helpful by showing them step-by-step how to run the activity and giving them a better understanding of the science behind it.

These activities will challenge students to work together in groups to complete the given task. These activities are fun, engaging, and the students will learn science in the process. Group work and problem solving are at the heart of these challenges.

Each activity challenge will end with a real-world research question, video, or activity. It is usually an extension of what the students just discovered and learned. The students will be involved, excited, and looking forward to future activity challenges in your classroom.

*****Distance Learning Directions (Suggestions):

1. Send students the pdf file, directing which activity to complete.

2. Students (and caretakers, if possible) watch the teacher instruction video (link in the pdf file). This will give them detailed instructions for the activity and explain the science/stem concept.

3. Students view the worksheets on-screen and record answers/sketch on a blank piece of paper (or print the worksheet if possible). Students take a picture of their paper and send it to you for credit.

4. Students send you a video of themselves demonstrating the activity. Optional: students give an explanation of what they did, how they made adjustments to improve their outcome and talk about the science/STEM concept(s).

STEM learning encourages engineering skills with experimenting, prototyping, inventing, and creating. Students use their imaginations to brainstorm solutions and use their critical thinking skills to determine which solutions work best and why. STEM projects can help kids explore new concepts and principles and expose them to real-world applications. This could seem overwhelming, but the low-prep STEM labs in this bundle facilitate STEM learning using simple low-cost materials and fun activities! They spark creativity and challenge students to imagine, plan, build, test, and revise!

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