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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners
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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Use these STEM design challenges to foster creativity and critical thinking skills in young learners while introducing them to the engineering process.
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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners
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STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners
Use these STEM design challenges to foster creativity and critical thinking skills in young learners while introducing them to the engineering process.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise
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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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.
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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise
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STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise
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.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Worksheet
Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
Activity
Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
Third Grade
Writing
In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon
In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.
Third Grade
Writing
Activity
STEM Design Challenge Cards
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STEM Design Challenge Cards
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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.
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STEM Design Challenge Cards
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STEM Design Challenge Cards
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.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Worksheet
Design and Build a City
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Design and Build a City
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.
Activity
Design and Build a City
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Design and Build a City
Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Making a Parachute
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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.
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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute
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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute
In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
Lesson Plan
Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.
Lesson Plan
Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
Lesson Plan
Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking
Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Lesson Plan
Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket
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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.
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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket
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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket
In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design a Floating Cork Boat
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Design a Floating Cork Boat
Third Grade
Physical Science
Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?
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Design a Floating Cork Boat
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Design a Floating Cork Boat
Here's a great activity that uses corks and toothpicks to create a fleet of floating boats. Which design makes for the most seaworthy vessel?
Third Grade
Physical Science
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
First Grade
Reading
In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats
In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.
First Grade
Reading
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Chair Design Challenge
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Chair Design Challenge
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.
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Chair Design Challenge
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Chair Design Challenge
In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths
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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!
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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths
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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths
In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Egg Drop
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
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Design Challenge: Egg Drop
In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
Activity
Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven
In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide
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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!
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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide
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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide
Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Water Flow Design: Race to the Finish
Activity
Water Flow Design: Race to the Finish
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.
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Water Flow Design: Race to the Finish
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Water Flow Design: Race to the Finish
Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Build a Tunnel
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Build a Tunnel
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.
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Build a Tunnel
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Build a Tunnel
In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Building Brick Challenge: Build a Tall Tower
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Building Brick Challenge: Build a Tall Tower
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.
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Building Brick Challenge: Build a Tall Tower
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Building Brick Challenge: Build a Tall Tower
In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.
First Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Albedo
Activity
Albedo
Third Grade
Vocabulary
Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?
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Albedo
Activity
Albedo
Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?
Third Grade
Vocabulary
Activity
The Mystery of the Missing Instructions
Lesson Plan
The Mystery of the Missing Instructions
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this lesson, students will solve a design problem and practice troubleshooting as they create a list of instructions for putting together a tent.
Lesson Plan
The Mystery of the Missing Instructions
Lesson Plan
The Mystery of the Missing Instructions
In this lesson, students will solve a design problem and practice troubleshooting as they create a list of instructions for putting together a tent.
Third Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Lesson Plan
Meteorologist for a Day
Activity
Meteorologist for a Day
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.
Activity
Meteorologist for a Day
Activity
Meteorologist for a Day
This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Activity
Robot Obstacle Course
Activity
Robot Obstacle Course
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.
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Robot Obstacle Course
Activity
Robot Obstacle Course
This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.
Second Grade
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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