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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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

Explore a forest habitat with this life science worksheet for second graders!

Learn more about a tide pool habitat with this life science worksheet for second and third graders!

Discover the animals and plants of the past in this fossil-focused worksheet!

Dive into a coral reef habitat with this second- and third-grade worksheet!

What's the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy? Help your student discover the various forms of energy we use each day.

Meet the master of compound machines: Rube Goldberg! His wacky contraptions put a whole new spin on the use of simple machines.

Illustrate each season with this engaging first- and second-grade weather worksheet!

Learn about fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles with this colorful life science worksheet for first and second graders!

Looking for a worksheet to challenge your child's knowledge of science? This printable asks him to identify a solid, liquid and gas.

Take a walk through a flora-filled forest with this second-grade habitat worksheet!

Uncover the plant life of an icy tundra with this habitat worksheet for second and third graders!

Stroll through the flora of a temperate deciduous forest in this third-grade worksheet!