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STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

9 Activities

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Grades 9 - 12

7 Hours 45 Minutes

Overview

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

Helicopter Engineering

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Helicopter Engineering

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students work in teams to engineer an optimal paper helicopter design

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Helicopter Engineering

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Paper Structures

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Paper Structures

6 - 8

30 Minutes

Students explore how to support weight using lightweight materials to build a structure.

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Paper Structures

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Stats-Minded Scrabble® Tournament

STEM, History and Society

Stats-Minded Scrabble® Tournament

9 - 12

45 Minutes

In traditional games of Scrabble® or other word games, the player with the highest total score is declared the winner. Not so in today’s activity! Students will play a word game in which the winner achieves a certain statistical goal, such as a mean score closest to 12 points or a set of scores with the greatest standard deviation.

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Stats-Minded Scrabble® Tournament

STEM, History and Society

Find the Bugs! Fix the Bugs!

STEM, Digital Media and Communications

Find the Bugs! Fix the Bugs!

9 - 12

45 Minutes

When a newly written program is run on a computer, it rarely works as the coder intended. Programmers use the word bugs to describe errors in a program that affect the user. In this activity, students will analyze 1 or more programs in the Basic language to identify the bugs, and then fix them. The 5 sample programs offer a range of experiences for student coders, from novice to expert.

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Find the Bugs! Fix the Bugs!

STEM, Digital Media and Communications

Cotton Catapults

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Cotton Catapults

3 - 8

1 Hour 15 Minutes

Students create a catapult to launch cotton balls.

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Cotton Catapults

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Chemical Element Family Feud

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Chemical Element Family Feud

9 - 12

45 Minutes

It’s the alkaline earth metals vs. the halogens in Chemical Element Family Feud. In this engaging and educational activity, students act as contestants, announcers, and even the scoreboard of the famous television game show, but with the twist that the subject is the periodic table. Make sure that someone records the activity because it will be a hit with school science teachers.

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Chemical Element Family Feud

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Build the Strongest Bridge

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Build the Strongest Bridge

6 - 8

45 Minutes

Students build two bridges and then test them to see which can carry the greater load. This activity builds engineering and critical-thinking skills as well as cooperative learning and design skills.

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Build the Strongest Bridge

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Engineering Paper Airplanes

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Engineering Paper Airplanes

6 - 8

1 Hour

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

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Engineering Paper Airplanes

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Building Card Houses

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Building Card Houses

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students work with cards to complete a structure-building challenge.

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Building Card Houses

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

More from this collaborator

STEM Activities at Home for 9-12th Grades

Grades 9 - 12

7 Hours 45 Minutes

Overview

Helicopter Engineering

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Helicopter Engineering

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students work in teams to engineer an optimal paper helicopter design

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Helicopter Engineering

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Paper Structures

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Paper Structures

6 - 8

30 Minutes

Students explore how to support weight using lightweight materials to build a structure.

Discover Activity

Paper Structures

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Stats-Minded Scrabble® Tournament

STEM, History and Society

Stats-Minded Scrabble® Tournament

9 - 12

45 Minutes

In traditional games of Scrabble® or other word games, the player with the highest total score is declared the winner. Not so in today’s activity! Students will play a word game in which the winner achieves a certain statistical goal, such as a mean score closest to 12 points or a set of scores with the greatest standard deviation.

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Stats-Minded Scrabble® Tournament

STEM, History and Society

Find the Bugs! Fix the Bugs!

STEM, Digital Media and Communications

Find the Bugs! Fix the Bugs!

9 - 12

45 Minutes

When a newly written program is run on a computer, it rarely works as the coder intended. Programmers use the word bugs to describe errors in a program that affect the user. In this activity, students will analyze 1 or more programs in the Basic language to identify the bugs, and then fix them. The 5 sample programs offer a range of experiences for student coders, from novice to expert.

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Find the Bugs! Fix the Bugs!

STEM, Digital Media and Communications

Cotton Catapults

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Cotton Catapults

3 - 8

1 Hour 15 Minutes

Students create a catapult to launch cotton balls.

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Cotton Catapults

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Chemical Element Family Feud

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Chemical Element Family Feud

9 - 12

45 Minutes

It’s the alkaline earth metals vs. the halogens in Chemical Element Family Feud. In this engaging and educational activity, students act as contestants, announcers, and even the scoreboard of the famous television game show, but with the twist that the subject is the periodic table. Make sure that someone records the activity because it will be a hit with school science teachers.

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Chemical Element Family Feud

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Build the Strongest Bridge

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Build the Strongest Bridge

6 - 8

45 Minutes

Students build two bridges and then test them to see which can carry the greater load. This activity builds engineering and critical-thinking skills as well as cooperative learning and design skills.

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Build the Strongest Bridge

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Engineering Paper Airplanes

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Engineering Paper Airplanes

6 - 8

1 Hour

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

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Engineering Paper Airplanes

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Building Card Houses

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

Building Card Houses

6 - 8

1 Hour

Students work with cards to complete a structure-building challenge.

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Building Card Houses

STEM, Nature and Wildlife

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Copyright © 2026, Mizzen Education, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to empower, uplift and support out-of-school time educators.