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Use these STEM design challenges to foster creativity and critical thinking skills in young learners while introducing them to the engineering process.

Warm up your scientific thinking with this colorful worksheet!

Practice writing sensory poetry using this fun template that will get students thinking, drawing, and writing.

Natural resources are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. Encourage your child to get to thinking about plants, one of Earth's natural resources.

Let your child put her thinking cap on and take a moment to write about the influence people might have had on the formation of landforms.

A lot of common objects use electromagnets to work. This word search will get your child thinking about all the electrical and mechanical devices around her!

Can you name the different parts of a tree? This scrambled words worksheet is a great way to get your child thinking about life sciences and nature.

When we push or pull an object, we exert force on it. Get your child thinking about force by challenging him to describe how each person is exerting force.

There's no better way to get your child thinking about the weather than by having them write about it. Kids write a sentence about the weather in each picture.

These STEM design challenge cards ask learners to build something new for a specific reason or purpose and are a great way to foster creative thinking.

What is wind energy? Teach your students how we can use the wind to create electricity!

Have you ever felt the sting of rug burn or rope burn? That's friction at work! Learn a bit about this important physical force with a comprehensive worksheet.

Is air a natural resource? You bet! Air as a resource carries oxygen, which we need. Read and write about ways air quality can be affected.

Find out all about snow in this worksheet -- what it is, where it comes from and what it looks like.

This worksheet featuring food and natural resources touches on the subject of food chains.

What is the difference between condensation and evaporation? Learn about natural cooling and heating processes that are caused by changing states of matter!

Collecting data is an important part of math and statistics. Practice gathering data using items around the house or classroom!

This cute worksheet prompts your first grader to find out what characteristics are shared by amphibians, and then circle the animals that fit that category.

Children will plan our their STEM design, reflect on the process of building their creation, and brainstorm ways they could make their design even better.

Which of these animals are reptiles: turtle, cobra, or jellyfish? Your first grader will ponder this question and more, when it comes to this cute worksheet.

What do juice, water, and tea have in common? Compare and contrast matter in this engaging second-grade worksheet!

Do you measure distance in inches or seconds? When do you use miles? Answer these and more with this third-grade worksheet about the customary system of measurement! 

Is a feather liquid, soft, spotted, or heavy? Practice describing everyday objects, or matter, with this second-grade science worksheet!

How do trunks, claws, and flippers help animals? Discover how animals use different parts of their body to meet their needs in this kindergarten and first-grade life science worksheet!

What do a key, a goldfish, and a tortoise shell have in common? Find out with this second-grade science worksheet!

Mix, boil, and toast your way to understanding energy transformations with this fourth-grade worksheet!

Have you considered why elephants have trunks, or why polar bears have thick fur? Reflect on animal adaptations with this fourth-grade worksheet!

Confused about continents? Get better acquainted with all the continents on earth with this word scramble.

Explore a tropical rainforest habitat and its inhabitants with this engaging worksheet for third graders!

Determine if certain animals could live in a temperate deciduous forest with this habitat worksheet for third graders!