Basketball stem activities

March has finally arrived and in just one short week selection Sunday will be upon us and the madness will begin. Unfortunately, the madness that I am referring to does not just apply to basketball. After being cooped up inside during the winter months, the warmer weather seems t

Are you looking for easy and engaging Sports ideas for STEM? I have you covered, but first... Ready for some truth? About a year ago I was looking for ideas for Thanksgiving STEM projects to complete a STEM by the Month series. Everything I found was about turkeys and Pilgrims and the Mayflower. It also really

Read this post to learn 8 reasons why STEM challenges are beneficial for students and download a free STEM engineering project!

It's time for Basketball Championship STEM challenge. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Basketball Tower Design Challenge is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It seamlessly allows you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passage IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activity! Watch your kids faces LIGHT UP and let the STEM begin!

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By Blair Blackwell -T apping into a student’s interest in sports can provide an effective, hands-on and fun approach to teaching STEM.

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This basketball cup and ball craft is easy to make and fun to play! Perfect basketball birthday party activity or a fun craft for kids during the game!

This bouncing basketballs experiment is easy to set up and perfect for sports fans. Measure all the ways you can change a basketball's bounce with this simple sports science experiment. Perfect for a physics lesson about potential and kinetic energy or a homeschool physics unit for elementary kids.

Learn how to make an origami basketball toy - a fun paper craft for kids who love basketball. The perfect basketball party craft!

Looking for some March Madness activities to do with your kindergarten, first, or second grade students? I have you covered! Check out these math, literacy, and STEM activity ideas that you can implement in your classroom to celebrate with basketball themed activities!

Who will have thought that sport and science be in the same sentence? Try this experiment and find out how kenitc and potential energy is involve in a basketball game.

Fun, hands-on STEM activities to get your students interested in the science and statistics of the game.

Get ready for March Madness basketball with sports science projects and experiments for basketball fans!

Basketball themed learning activities and free printables.

Basketball and STEM! A fun engineering challenge for March.$

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Looking for March Madness classroom ideas to keep students engaged? Try the ultimate March Madness classroom activity—a fun and interactive way to bring the excitement of basketball into learning! This hands-on learning game is perfect for March Madness activities, making math activities more exciting. Whether you're planning a school sports theme or need fresh classroom math activities, this is a must-try.

Here is an amazing list of clever, unique and simple set up STEM challenges and lesson plans from other teachers.

Have fun learning and playing with these origami basketball hoops. You'll have a blast learning to make them & competing with friends.