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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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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

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!

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!