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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

Match each animal to its home in this first- and second-grade life science worksheet!

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.