Stem building activities

These engineering activities for kids are excellent ways to enjoy STEM projects and more. Help your students learn and enjoy all sorts of cool building projects, creativity, and thinking outside the box.

Children love building and construction activities. Take this love for construction and turn it into a fun STEM activity by building bridges with straws. Building Straw bridge is an educational activity for kids that naturally engages your kids to learn, understand, and enjoy science, engineering, technology, and mathematics.

This contains: A collection of pictures of different STEM building challenges fill the pin. A few of the activities for kids at home include, a boat made of apples, a cardboard car with square wheels, a tower made from cups and tongue depressors, a sketch and building made from the sketch are all shown.

Use the Build a Name STEM activity as a get to know you activity in the first week of school. Pair with Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow.

Here’s a fun STEM building challenge for kids! Set up this bridge building activity and challenge kids to construct a sturdy LEGO® bridge that spans the width of the river. I love activities like this because they are beneficial and engaging for a wide range of ages. In order to build a bridge, kids need […]

How high can you build? Your kids will love this STEM challenge and it requires little to no prep from parents/teachers. Start building today!

Are you looking for something that will have ALL of your elementary students engaged from young kids to older? Do you hate planning out stem projects that use hard-to-find equipment and are exhausting to prepare? Have you tried easy STEM activities yet in your classroom? Easy stem challenges are a great way to have students […]

This STEM Activity is a runaway hit with my students. They cheer when they see Boat Building on our agenda and your students will too! There is just something about a STEM Challenge to build a boat and testing it to see if it will float (it will). It is totally fun to watch their faces and hear the groans when a boat sinks or celebrate with them when the boat holds a lot of weight! Try boating and pirates together!

Teaching Second Grade's students absolutely love to work on STEM projects. This week’s stem activity was to build a house, or a structure, of cards. I got this activity from Brook Brown ~ Teach Outside the Box. It’s currently my favorite STEM project for elementary grades.