STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

422 Activities

Curious minds come alive through hands-on STEM exploration. Learners solve problems, build designs, and explore real-world challenges using science, technology, engineering, and math.

Activities

Engineering Paper Airplanes

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Engineering Paper Airplanes

OregonASK

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students learn how paper airplanes work and create their own using the engineering design process.

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Melting Ice and Water Levels

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Melting Ice and Water Levels

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

In this activity, two student groups investigate how melting ice affects water levels. The two groups compare the effects of floating ice and land ice. Students also research before-and-after images of melting glaciers and look for evidence that glaciers are either melting or not melting. This activity builds awareness about how melting ice affects the water level of Earth’s oceans.

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Science Notebooks Across Time

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Science Notebooks Across Time

California Academy of Sciences

3 - 12

1 Hour

Students peruse sample pages from the notebooks of many different scientists, including scientists their own age, high school scientists, science teachers, and field scientists dating back to 1905. They consider how scientists have used notebooks over the last several hundred years, and start to think about how they'll use their own.

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Dragonfly Species Survey

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Dragonfly Species Survey

City Parks Foundation

6 - 8

1 Hour 20 Minutes

In this interactive activity, students learn how to catch and identify dragonflies, conduct a biodiversity study, and observe which dragonflies live in the area.

This is activity 2 of 3 in the "Indicator Species" module from City Parks Foundation.

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What is a Space Station?

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, We The People

What is a Space Station?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

45 Minutes

In this activity, children learn why a space station moves around Earth instead of crashing to Earth or floating away from it. They also learn how people from many countries work together to keep the International Space Station running.

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Social Media and Big Data

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

Social Media and Big Data

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

In this activity, groups of students discuss social media privacy issues. Then they conduct a privacy survey. They graph the results in their groups, and then compare their results with the whole groups’ results.

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Memory Card Game (Grades 3-5)

Stories and Perspectives, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Memory Card Game (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students make and play a card game to work on their memory skills using multiplication facts. Since this activity helps students practice basic math facts, it is a great game to play often.

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Evaluating Websites (Grades 3-5)

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

Evaluating Websites (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students explore the criteria for evaluating websites and the importance of this type of evaluation.

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Where Have I Left My Digital Footprint?

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

Where Have I Left My Digital Footprint?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Every time we use the internet, we leave a trail of footprints behind. Students learn about the importance of digital footprints and look at where they have left their trail.

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Target Quest (Grades 9-12)

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Target Quest (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

In this jigsaw activity, students assemble and follow instructions to meet a specific goal, or target. Following the instructions and meeting the target rely on measurement, computational skills, and cooperation.

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Mission to Mars

Leadership and Teamwork, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Mission to Mars

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

Students work in groups to plan a mission to Mars. This activity builds teamwork, speaking and listening skills, and problem-solving skills.

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A Navigation Experiment

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

A Navigation Experiment

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

In this tech-centric activity, students play a web navigation game to discover strategies many webmasters implement to keep users on their sites.

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Engineering Paper Airplanes

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Engineering Paper Airplanes

OregonASK

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students learn how paper airplanes work and create their own using the engineering design process.

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Melting Ice and Water Levels

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Melting Ice and Water Levels

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

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Science Notebooks Across Time

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Science Notebooks Across Time

California Academy of Sciences

3 - 12

1 Hour

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Dragonfly Species Survey

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Dragonfly Species Survey

City Parks Foundation

6 - 8

1 Hour 20 Minutes

In this interactive activity, students learn how to catch and identify dragonflies, conduct a biodiversity study, and observe which dragonflies live in the area.

This is activity 2 of 3 in the "Indicator Species" module from City Parks Foundation.

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What is a Space Station?

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, We The People

What is a Space Station?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 2

45 Minutes

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Social Media and Big Data

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

Social Media and Big Data

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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Memory Card Game (Grades 3-5)

Stories and Perspectives, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Memory Card Game (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students make and play a card game to work on their memory skills using multiplication facts. Since this activity helps students practice basic math facts, it is a great game to play often.

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Evaluating Websites (Grades 3-5)

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

Evaluating Websites (Grades 3-5)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students explore the criteria for evaluating websites and the importance of this type of evaluation.

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Where Have I Left My Digital Footprint?

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

Where Have I Left My Digital Footprint?

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Every time we use the internet, we leave a trail of footprints behind. Students learn about the importance of digital footprints and look at where they have left their trail.

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Target Quest (Grades 9-12)

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Target Quest (Grades 9-12)

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

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Mission to Mars

Leadership and Teamwork, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

Mission to Mars

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

45 Minutes

Students work in groups to plan a mission to Mars. This activity builds teamwork, speaking and listening skills, and problem-solving skills.

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A Navigation Experiment

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Digital Voices

A Navigation Experiment

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

45 Minutes

In this tech-centric activity, students play a web navigation game to discover strategies many webmasters implement to keep users on their sites.

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Operation: Mindset

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Future Ready: Learning and Earning

6 Activities

Operation: Mindset

Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship

6 - 12

8 Hours 20 Minutes

Students discover what it means to think and act like an entrepreneur in this series of fun and engaging lessons. First, students learn about the mindset traits and behaviors of successful entrepreneurs before taking a survey that reveals the characteristics of their own entrepreneurial mindset. Students then participate in a series of four challenges – each designed to activate two of the eight domains of the entrepreneurial mindset. The module wraps up with students creating an action plan to further grow their own entrepreneurial potential.

Recommended Module Sequence

NFTE recommends that Lessons 1, 2, and 6 are facilitated in the order listed below. However, Lessons 3, 4, and 5 can be facilitated in any order. Lessons 3, 4, 5, and 6 can also be done independently for teachers looking for exercises that engage students in those non-cognitive skills.

Lesson 1: Pitch Yourself

Lesson 2: EMI Pre-Survey Analysis

Lesson 3: Tower of Power

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domain Focus: Creativity & Innovation and Initiative & Self-Reliance

Lesson 4: Chill or Grill

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domain Focus: Flexibility & Adaptability and Comfort with Risk

Lesson 5: Picture This

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domain Focus: Communication & Collaboration and Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Lesson 6: Startup Survival

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domains: Opportunity Recognition & Future Orientation

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Animal Families and Nearby Nature

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

3 Activities

Animal Families and Nearby Nature

National Wildlife Federation

K - 8

We can learn a lot when we take time to observe nature nearby. In this playlist, youth learn about six animal families, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, fish, birds, and mammals. Additionally, we take a look at the plants in the community and how they support the animal families.

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S.INQ Up Earth and Space

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

7 Activities

S.INQ Up Earth and Space

OregonASK

6 - 8

6 Hours 15 Minutes

Earth and Space is an inquiry and exploration-based curriculum that uses hands-on activities focused on the relationship between the earth, the solar system, and human impacts on our global environment.

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Animal Homes

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

4 Activities

Animal Homes

National Wildlife Federation

K - 8

In this module youth will learn about animal homes. They will find similarities and differences between the places we call home.

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STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

Arts in Action, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

10 Activities

STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

8 Hours 35 Minutes

This Playlist gives middle school aged students fun engineering and design activities that can be done at home or in small groups.

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Animal Migrations

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

4 Activities

Animal Migrations

National Wildlife Federation

K - 8

Migration is the seasonal movement of animals from one habitat to another as they search for food or living conditions. In this playlist we'll connect to nature and learn a little about the migrations of the monarch butterfly, bats, and raptors.

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Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Arts in Action

13 Activities

Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

13 Hours 30 Minutes

This Playlist provides younger students a variety of visual arts activities that encourages creative thinking at home.

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S.INQ Sound

Arts in Action, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

9 Activities

S.INQ Sound

OregonASK

K - 5

4 Hours 30 Minutes

This lesson has hands-on activities ranging from learning about sound, pitch, and amplification through material exploration to designing, building, testing and modifying their own musical instruments.

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STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

9 Activities

STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

7 Hours 45 Minutes

Students engage in science and engineering activities that contain accessible materials.

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Operation: Mindset

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Future Ready: Learning and Earning

6 Activities

Operation: Mindset

Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship

6 - 12

8 Hours 20 Minutes

Recommended Module Sequence

Lesson 1: Pitch Yourself

Lesson 2: EMI Pre-Survey Analysis

Lesson 3: Tower of Power

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domain Focus: Creativity & Innovation and Initiative & Self-Reliance

Lesson 4: Chill or Grill

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domain Focus: Flexibility & Adaptability and Comfort with Risk

Lesson 5: Picture This

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domain Focus: Communication & Collaboration and Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

Lesson 6: Startup Survival

Entrepreneurial Mindset Domains: Opportunity Recognition & Future Orientation

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Animal Families and Nearby Nature

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

3 Activities

Animal Families and Nearby Nature

National Wildlife Federation

K - 8

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S.INQ Up Earth and Space

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

7 Activities

S.INQ Up Earth and Space

OregonASK

6 - 8

6 Hours 15 Minutes

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Animal Homes

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

4 Activities

Animal Homes

National Wildlife Federation

K - 8

In this module youth will learn about animal homes. They will find similarities and differences between the places we call home.

Discover Collection

STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

Arts in Action, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

10 Activities

STEAM Activities for Middle School at Home

Mizzen Education, Inc.

6 - 8

8 Hours 35 Minutes

This Playlist gives middle school aged students fun engineering and design activities that can be done at home or in small groups.

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Animal Migrations

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

4 Activities

Animal Migrations

National Wildlife Federation

K - 8

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Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Arts in Action

13 Activities

Visual Arts Activities For 3rd-5th Grade at Home

Mizzen Education, Inc.

3 - 5

13 Hours 30 Minutes

This Playlist provides younger students a variety of visual arts activities that encourages creative thinking at home.

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S.INQ Sound

Arts in Action, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

9 Activities

S.INQ Sound

OregonASK

K - 5

4 Hours 30 Minutes

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STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

The Natural World, STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore

9 Activities

STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

Mizzen Education, Inc.

9 - 12

7 Hours 45 Minutes

Students engage in science and engineering activities that contain accessible materials.

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