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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.

STEM Design Challenge Cards for Young Learners

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. 

STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect, Revise

Run out of state quarters to collect? Design your own with this fun worksheet!

Design a State Quarter

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon

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.

STEM Design Challenge Cards

In this creative activity, students design and make a case for their own proposed emoji.

Design Your Own Emoji

Challenge your learner to design and build a city of their own in this creative engineering activity.

Design and Build a City

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Design Your Own Planet

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Design Challenge: Making a Parachute

Transform the traditional egg drop experiment as you help students to engage in design thinking and develop empathy.

Humpty Dumpty and Design Thinking

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket

With this worksheet, your students will apply what they have learned about geometry and area to design their own community garden.

Design Your Own Community Garden

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

STEM Design Challenge: Brainstorm and Reflection Sheet

Children learn about the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar — then get creative and design a calendar of their own, including a brief description of why they chose each animal.

Design Your Own Zodiac

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?

Design a Floating Cork Boat

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine

In this open-ended activity, students will be given a small quantity of three types of materials and asked to design a prototype for &ldquo;something that will improve the school.&rdquo;

Design Challenge: Improve the School

With this fun craft activity, your child can design and "make" his own money, for use as currency and math practice at home.

Design and Create Your Own Family "Money"

This social studies worksheet allows learners to design a unique&ldquo;I Voted&rdquo; sticker using imagery from their state and the language of their choice.

Design Your Own "I Voted" State Sticker

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research,&nbsp;learn&nbsp;about the animal&rsquo;s habitat, and then replicate the animal&#39;s habitat using household items.

Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

Make clothing battles a thing of the past by allowing your second grader to design his own dress-up shirt out of an ultra-comfy t-shirt for New Year's.

Design a New Year Dress-Up Shirt

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.

Chair Design Challenge

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Head to Head Fiction: Protagonists and Challenges

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Batik Design

Explore the beauty of Navajo rug weaving with this lesson that integrates indigenous culture, math and art. Students will learn and practice symmetry and create a design in the tradition of the Navajo rug pattern called “Two Grey Hills”.

Recognize Indigenous People’s Day with Navajo Rug Design

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

Design a Sarcophagus

Draw a picture of the Washington Monument if you designed it!

Design Your Own Washington Monument

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

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