STEM Resources

Develop your third grade students' creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 3 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

• The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.
• Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
• No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

• Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
• Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
• Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
• A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
• Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
• A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.

• Anemometer (Earth Science Concept: Atmosphere)
• Spider Web (Life Science Concept: Structural Engineering )
• Mini-Fridge (Physical Science Concept: Thermal Energy)

Learn to code and get drawing with STEAM-style robotics to create visual masterpieces—if you can code it, Artie 3000 can draw it!

• WiFi-enabled drawing robot
• 4 Modes of play: pre-programmed shapes, games, art for coloring, and freeform coding
• QuickStart guide & FAQs instruction cards
• 3 Project cards
• Drag and drop visual programming interface
• 4 Swappable, washable colored markers
• Requires 4AA batteries (not included)

How to Use:

1. Download the app to any tablet.
2. Use the software to easily drag and drop blocks of code into the command area, telling Artie 3000 to turn right or left, move forward or backward, and pick up or put down a pen.
3. Test your code in the online simulator before setting Artie 3000 on a sheet of paper to draw the shape you've coded.
4. Watch how-to videos and learn about everything Artie 3000 can do

This set provides four Circuit Blox 395 kits, all packed into a sturdy storage case for sharing in the classroom.

• Contains 264 parts
• Build 395 different projects that all teach STEM
• Directly compatible with other brick building construction sets
• Requires 12 "AA" batteries
• Ages 8 and up
• Learn about voltage, current and how circuits with switches, LEDs, resistors, capacitors, transistors, motors, speakers, integrated circuits, RC circuits, amplifiers and FM receivers work.
• Includes animated Powerpoint curriculum designed and written by E-Blox Ph.D. engineers, only available with classroom sets.

The Mark Twain Life Science book helps students develop communication skills for STEM success.

STEM Labs for Life Science by Mark Twain includes 26 fun, integrated labs that help students understand concepts such as:

• life
• human body systems
• ecosystems

This middle school life science book encourages students to collaborate and communicate to solve real-world problems.

The STEM Labs for Life Science book for sixth–eighth grades features introductory materials to explain STEM education concepts and provides materials for instruction and assessment. Correlated to meet current state standards, each lab combines the following essential STEM concepts:

• communication
• creativity
• teamwork
• critical thinking

The Mark Twain Publishing Company provides classroom decorations and supplemental books for middle-grade and upper-grade classrooms. These products are designed by leading educators and cover science, math, behavior management, history, government, language arts, fine arts, and social studies.

Develop your fifth grade students' creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 5 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

• The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.
• Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
• No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

• Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
• Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
• Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
• A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
• Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
• A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.

• Mousetrap (Life Science Concept: Simple Machines)
• Oil Spill Boom (Earth Science Concept: Buoyancy/Properties of Oil)
• Remote-Control Game (Physical Science Concept: Compound Machines)

Grades 5–8 • 64 pages Features easy-to-set-up activities designed to help students see the connections among the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.

STEM Challenges for grades 2-5 provides a fun way to enhance STEM learning in the classroom. This boxed set includes 30 challenge cards—10 each for the three categories of physical science, life science, and earth and space science. Designed to capture a student's attention, challenges are diverse, simple, and easy to complete and include these fun activities: creating structures and bridges, experimenting with camouflage, learning how to dig for "fossils," and more.

Help students go full STEAM ahead with grab-and-go activities! STEM Challenges offers an engaging way to get students interested in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Each challenge card features two sides—the front side includes the challenge and a visual list of materials needed to complete the challenge. The back of the card is ideal for extended learning and includes hints, questions, and explanations of the science behind the challenge. Each activity uses common materials and can be completed individually or during whole-class instruction.

STEM Challenges helps teachers integrate STEM into the classroom by providing hands-on activities that appeal to students. Because of the child-friendly text and the visual materials lists, these easy, but fun, activities can be completed independently, in small groups, or as a whole-class activity. The activities require common materials so students or teachers can "grab and go!” Don't forget to check out the Seasonal STEM Challenges set for more fun ways to learn STEM.

Kit Includes:

• 1 Solar oven box
• 1 4”x4” canvas
• 1 100mL clear bottle
• 1 100mL black bottle
• 1 Mini funnel cutout
• 2 Black balloons
• 2 Clear balloons
• 8 Wax crayons
• 1 Pipette
• 1 Clear straw
• Wax paper
• 1 Magnifying glass
• 2 Bottles food coloring
• 1 Pair rubber gloves

Activities Included:

• Balloon blow
• Mystery pop balloon
• Melting ice
• Solar oven
• Build a thermometer
• Sundial
• Ice hands & food coloring
• Wax paper sun catcher
• Painting with wax

Science Lessons:

• Freezing and melting points
• Light absorption
• Reflections and heat transfer

Unleash Your Creative Power!

The Brackitz Pulley Set includes 77 pieces and directions for 8 contraptions - from a moving draw bridge to a 4-foot flying zip line to a bucket escalator. With pulleys, axles, hubs, hook, crank and string, engineers of all ages will have fun building and cranking contraptions that haul, lift, slide and move up/down. No hard hat required

Grades 3-5 Building on STEM Concepts

Curriculum addresses NGSS requirements

Includes one Circuit Blox 120 product

Use in classroom or with virtual e-learning

79 page Teacher Guide with Curriculum Lessons, Quizzes and Quiz Answer sheet

Lesson 1 – Electricity & Circuits

Lesson 2 – Motors & Flying Saucers

Lesson 3 – Light

Lesson 4 – Sound

Lesson 5 – Switches

Lesson 6 – Telecommunication & FM Radio

Lesson 7 – Learning Parallel vs. Series Circuits

Winner of Creative Child Magazine Creative Play of the Year, Product of the Year for 2017, TillyWig Brain Child, and Purdue University Engineering and Design Award!

• Great addition to any STEM program.
• Online Curriculum Included.
• Learn all about electricity, current and voltage.
• Discover how lights, alarms, motors, switches and more work all while building fun projects.
• Build a real working FM radio and listen to your favorite station.
• Compatible with other building brick sets.
• Build 120 different projects.
• Contains 46 parts
• Requires 3 "AA" batteries
• Ages 8 and up.