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Free engineering games
Lego Task Cards
These task cards are great for stations, calm down corner, free activity time. Use with legos or building blocks and the ideas help students begin their creations. Our students really enjoy working with these cards on their own or with a partner to create some of the ideas they see. I hope you enjoy this product.
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PreK - 3rd
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STEM Scavenger Hunt Icebreaker Activity
This scavenger hunt works great as an icebreaker game to transform the dynamics of your classroom– helping students get to know each other, work in teams, and learn something while having fun! This activity by Vivify also provides exposure to simple machines which are the foundation of tools used in physics and engineering to multiply force. In the scavenger hunt, students are asked to find items that represent the list of tools commonly used in S.T.E.M. fields. Let the hunt and creativity begin
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K - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
St. Patrick's Day Logic Puzzle
This St. Patrick STEM Challenge is a logic puzzle for students in upper elementary or middle school. Connor is arranging pictures in a certain order. Use the clues to put the pictures in the correct space. Students can use colorful clipart to glue onto the final solution. This set also includes a printable with activity options that can be crossed off as students complete the logic puzzle. This free resource is part of our STEM challenge collection. Check out our other listings for more free ST
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3rd - 8th
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Project Based Learning - Create Your Own Board Game!
As the year begins, let your students enjoy learning about the new procedures and rules of your classroom by completing a project that incorporates STEM activities into a fun, get-to-know-you cooperative learning project. Students will create their own board games that highlight the key procedures and rules you've shared with them in a step-by-step project that guides them through the engineering process.
This activity will take away the boredom from the initial 'rules and regulations talk'
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Not Grade Specific
Lego Club Monster Mix-Up Cards
Brand new Lego Challenge!! Print out and cut out the cards, and put them into three piles--head, arms, and legs. Have kiddos pull one head card, and two arm cards and two leg cards. Then they have to build a monster based on what cards they pulled!!You can learn more about my lesson plan here:https://legolibrarian.com/2019/09/10/lego-club-challenge-monster-mix-up/
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PreK - 3rd
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Ratios, Rates, and Unit Rates Review Activity
Finally a no prep activity using METRIC UNITS! Great for classrooms all over the world! No more miles per hour or dollars per pound. No prep required with this review activity. 18 questions that can be used in your classroom as a scavenger hunt, station activity, or self directed review. Just print and you are ready to go! Answers are included.***All questions are in metric units and global currency.
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6th - 8th
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Table Top Roads Freebie
If your students enjoy playing with cars, this freebie is for you! Table top roads are a fun and engaging invitation with plenty of opportunities for discussions on direction, prepositions, safety, turn taking and sharing. Simply print, cut, and secure! We use packing tape to secure the roads to the table to protect the paper from tearing/cleaning. Accompany the roads with some trees, road signs, and cars! Let’s connect! Follow me at @ready.set.kinder for more resources, ideas, activities and in
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PreK - 1st
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Dot Dudes Logic Puzzle #1
This is a logic puzzle for students in upper elementary or middle school. The Dot Dudes are moving into their new houses on Color street! Help them find the correct house numbers by following the clues. Students can use colorful clipart to glue onto the final solution. This set also includes a printable with activity options that can be crossed off as students complete the logic puzzle. This free resource is part of our STEM challenge collection. Check out our other listings for more free STEM
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3rd - 8th
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Spring Logic Puzzle
This Spring STEM Challenge is a logic puzzle for students in upper elementary or middle school.Sarah is decorating for spring! Help her put the pictures in the correct frames.Students can use colorful clipart to glue onto the final solution. This set also includes a printable with activity options that can be crossed off as students complete the logic puzzle.This free resource is part of our STEM challenge collection. Check out our other listings for more free STEM resources.
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3rd - 8th
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November STEM #4
Flying Turkeys is a STEM challenge for upper-elementary or middle school students. The challenge is easily adaptable for high school students -- just change the material and height requirements to fit their needs.This is a twist on the classic egg-drop challenge. Using hard-boiled eggs (so they don't make a mess when dropped!), students help Tiny the Turkey hide from the farmer. The students create any type of device that will help Tiny safely land on the ground without breaking.A list of sugges
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2nd - 10th
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Active and Passive Transport: Red Rover Send Particles Over
Students compare and contrast passive and active transport by playing a game to model this phenomenon. Movement through cell membranes is also modeled, as well as the structure and movement typical of the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane. Concentration gradient, sizes, shapes and polarity of molecules determine the method of movement through cell membranes. This activity is associated with the Test your Mettle phase of the legacy cycle. This engineering curriculum meets Next Generation Sc
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9th - 12th
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Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Tour - Now On Kahoot! (Secondary Version)
Amazon Future Engineer guides students in grades 6-12 on a virtual tour through the Amazon Fulfillment Center (FC). Launch the kahoot for a 45 minute learning experience in which students learn how computer science, engineering, and people work together to fulfill customer orders at Amazon. Participants will also meet software, hardware, and system engineers and learn how their jobs helped make this technology possible. This completely free product includes a teacher's guide, a facilitation guid
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6th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-1
Peep Parachute
This is a fun and engaging activity that instructs students to engineer a parachute and test it's efficiency with a Peep! Students will love this challenge, and they'll love launching their Peeps even more! The lab sheet also includes a STEM connection reflection--which is such an important part of science!
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
STEM Game - Build It!
"Build It!" is a simple and fun interactive game for primary-aged students, aligned with the Australian Curriculum and focused on STEM. The objective of the game is to build the tallest tower possible using only plastic cups and index cards. Players are divided into teams of two and must work together to create a free-standing tower within a set time limit, such as 5 minutes. The team with the tallest tower at the end of the time limit wins the game. This game promotes teamwork, problem-solving,
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K - 3rd
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Winter STEM #1
Snow Fortress is a STEM challenge for elementary aged students. The game is played in groups of 2 or 3. Each player has a penguin that they need to keep from being knocked over by snowballs. The players take turns rolling dice and selecting materials to build a fortress to protect their penguin.At the end of the game, each player throws "snowballs" (crumpled pieces of paper) at the other player's penguin to try and knock him down.This game is perfect for a STEM class, club, or even indoor recess
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1st - 5th
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November STEM #3
Fido's Dinner is a STEM challenge that is easily adaptable to different grade levels.The challenge is to knock the turkey off the table so Fido can have some Thanksgiving dinner with the family. The students have several food items that they have to avoid spilling while creating a domino maze to get the turkey off the table.Teachers can use tape to outline a "table" of various sizes, add more or fewer pieces of food, and even make requirements about lengths or the maze. Explanations and pictures
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3rd - 8th
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Morning Tubs {Reflection Tickets} FREEBIE
These reflection tickets are sure to help your little learners reflect on their morning tub creations!In my classroom, we use morning tubs to plan, create, build, and problem solve. They are an important part of our day as they motivate my students to collaborate and use their imagination. You can READ more about how we use morning tubs in my classroom by clicking HERE.There are several ways that you can use these reflection tickets. In my class, I ask my students to hand in ONE ticket per week.
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1st - 3rd
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The Last 26 Days of the School Year Activities List
Give your students a different letter of the alphabet to celebrate during the last 26 days of school. This will keep them interested and will wonder what the next day's letter will involve. All the letters in my list are fun and educational. Some have links to free websites. Add your own ideas to mine for a day filled with end-of-the-year activities.
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K - 8th
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Winter STEM #2
Lifted Snowflakes is a STEM challenge that uses spatial awareness and support ideas. Students need to find a way to keep the snowflakes off the ground to prevent them from melting. They have a limited number of cubes and must keep them connected. Snowflakes are worth different amounts of points.Students can compare their designs to determine the most efficient use of their cubes. This free resource is part of our STEM challenge collection. Check out our other listings for more free STEM resource
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3rd - 8th
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Girl Scouts Friendship Circuit Circle: Daisy/Brownie/Junior STEM Activity
Circuits are everywhere - but how do they work? This hands-on activity will help your Girl Scouts understand how a circuit moves battery energy to a flashlight bulb. Use the activity to work on the Think Like an Engineer Journey series (DBJCSA), the Junior Get Moving Journey, and Designing Robots for all levels.
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Not Grade Specific
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K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-PS3-2
Upstairs Downstairs Brain Circuit Activity - SEL, STEM, Hand Model of Brain
Social Emotional Learning lesson combined with a simple STEM activity helps students practice deciding if their pre-frontal cortex (upstairs brain) or their amygdala (downstairs brain) is in charge during certain situations. Create a simple paper circuit STEM activity. Included:Upstairs Downstairs Brain Paper circuit template24 Brain Cards with various situations listed on them (Editable)Color and black and white versions includedLink to "How To" video to create an easy paper circuitLink to Han
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2nd - 8th
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Advanced Logic Puzzles
This set of 10 logic puzzles is for students in high school or who are taking a logic class. Students use the clues to arrange colored tiles in the correct order. Printable tiles are included. “Helper Pages” are included to allow students to cross-off possibilities until they arrive at the correct solution. These pages are helpful for students but are not required to solve the puzzles. These puzzles are difficult and should be done by high school students or those specifically taking a logic cl
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9th - 12th
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Architecture and Engineering with Angry Birds
A fun architecture, engineering, and coding activity with Jenga blocks and Angry Birds. Student teams will research, plan, and engineer Jenga block castles. Teams will then investigate the strength and design of their castle utilizing several, common brick bond patterns. If you don't have robots for coding, students can roll marble "birds" at an opponent's castle.
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3rd - 6th
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Engineering Word Search - Types of Engineers FREE!
Introduce your students to 13 different fields of engineering with this word search resource!Students will search for the 13 types of engineers in the horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forward, and backward directions. An answer sheet is provided.EXTRA: Have students look up the different types of engineers and provide a definition or explain the things they do to the class!Do you have students preparing for the math section of the ACT?I really enjoy helping students prepare for the math section
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8th - 12th
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