STEM Calendar for Educators: Month by Month STEM
Plan ahead to bring exciting science and engineering to your students all year long. Our STEM Calendar offers a roadmap for finding teaching materials and hands-on experiments to match with seasonal and calendar events throughout the year.
STEM Calendar — A Roadmap of Monthly Science and Engineering Connections for Events and Popular Themes
We know educators often plan weeks or even months in advance for hands-on STEM experiments and activities. To make it easier to keep the big picture of the next few months (or the semester) in mind, we've created this STEM Calendar to highlight science and engineering tie-ins for thematic and seasonal content.
We highlight science and engineering activities and resources, special events, and pop culture and holiday tie-ins individually throughout the year, but we hope this centralized STEM Calendar makes it easier to find the resources you need to create exciting STEM learning opportunities for your students.
There are many STEM-focused "days" and "weeks" and lots of other observances on the calendar. We've curated our STEM Calendar to include some of the most established connections, holidays, and tie-ins, especially ones for which we have in-depth resources to help support science and engineering in the classroom.
STEM Calendar—2023 Month by Month
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January
Science Buddies Engineering Challenge (Revealed)
Winter Science (Seasonal)
February
Black History Month
➤ Learn More About these 35 Scientists for Black History Month
Lunar New Year (Feb 10)
Winter Olympics (next 2026)
Super Bowl (Feb 11, 2024)
Valentine's Day (Feb 14)
Science Buddies Engineering Challenge
Engineers Week (Feb 18-24, 2024) & Girl Day (Feb 22)
➤ 4 Ways to Teach Engineering Design
➤ 12+ Engineering Challenges for Elementary School
➤ 16+ Engineering Challenges for Middle School
➤ 11+ Engineering Challenges for High School
March
Women's History Month & International Women's Day (Mar 8)
➤ Women in STEM! More than 60 Scientists and Engineers for Women's History Month
March Madness (Mar 19-Apr 8, 2024)
Pi Day (Mar 14)
St. Patrick's Day (Mar 17)
2023 Science Buddies Engineering Challenge
Spring Science (Seasonal)
World Water Day (Mar 22)
Junior Solar Sprint (Variable)
Easter (March 31, 2024)
➤ 5 STEM Activities with Marshmallow Peeps
➤ Egg Science Projects for K-12 Students
April
April Fool's Day (Apr 1)
Weather (Seasonal)
Plant Science (Seasonal)
Spring Science (Seasonal)
Robotics Week (Apr 6-14, 2024)
➤ Robotics Projects, Lessons, and Activities for Teachers
➤ 20 Tips for Doing Robotics with Kids
➤ 10+ Robotics Projects with the BlueBot Kit
Junior Solar Sprint (Variable dates)
May
Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Harry Potter Day (May 2)
➤ Wizard Experiments for Science Class
➤ Wizardly STEM! (Awesome Summer Science Experiments)
May the 4th Be with You (Star Wars Day) (May 4)
➤ Star Wars STEM Activities for May the 4th Be With You Science
Mother's Day (May 12, 2024)
International Day of Light (May 16)
Fun STEM projects for the end of the year, like hovercraft from balloons and discs
June
Summer Science (Seasonal)
➤ Make Believe STEM
➤ Awesome Summer Science Experiments (2021 series)
➤ Summer of STEM (2020 series)
Imaginative Play and Summer Reading (Seasonal)
➤ Imagine Your Story - STEM Activities for Storytellers of All Ages!
➤ Reading List
➤ Make Believe STEM
World Oceans Day (Jun 8)
➤ Ocean Science Projects
➤ Oceanic Circulation: What Keeps the Ocean in Motion?
Father's Day (Jun 16, 2024)
Asteroid Day (Jun 30)
➤ Asteroid Mining: Gold Rush in Space?
➤ NASA Asteroid Database: What Can You Learn About Our Solar System?
July
National Ice Cream Month and National Ice Cream Day (Jul 21, 2024)
Clean Beaches Week (Jul 1-7)
Alice in Wonderland Day (Jul 4)
Anniversary of Apollo Moon Landing (Jul 20)
➤ Explore Crater Science to Celebrate Moon Landing Anniversary
August
Sandcastle Day (Aug 5, 2023)
National Roller Coaster Day (Aug 16)
➤ Paper Roller Coasters: Kinetic and Potential Energy
➤ Build a Paper Roller Coaster
➤ 13 Activities and Lessons to Teach Potential and Kinetic Energy
National Aviation Day (Aug 19, 2023)
➤ Defining an Engineering Design Problem with Paper Airplanes
➤ Paper Airplanes: Why Flaps and Folds Matter
September
Fall Science (Seasonal)
National Biodiversity Month (September)
➤ Teach About Biodiversity with Free STEM Lessons & Activities
Roald Dahl Day (Sept 13)
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept 19)
October
National Disability Employment Awareness Month (Oct)
➤ STEM is for Everyone: Scientists with Disabilities
➤ Inclusive STEM Career Discovery–Best Practices
World Architecture Day (Oct 2, 2023)
World Space Week (Oct 4-10, 2023)
➤ Space Science & Mars STEM Lessons and Activities
➤ Space Exploration Science Projects
Earth Science Week (Oct 8-14, 2023)
➤ Earth Day Science Projects and Activities
➤ Geology resources
National Chemistry Week (October 15-21, 2023)
➤ Teach Chemical Reactions - 20+ Chemistry Lessons and Activities
➤ 13 Lessons to Teach About the Chemistry of Mixtures and Solutions
➤ Green Chemistry and the School Science Lab - Safer Chemistry for Today and Tomorrow
➤ 9 STEM Activities to Teach about States of Matter
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
National Health Education Week (Oct 16-20, 2023)
National Apple Day (Oct 21)
➤ Apple Science: Comparing Apples and Onions
➤ Apple Genetics: A Tasty Phenomena
➤ Fruits Gone Bad? Discover Enzymatic Browning
Halloween (Oct 31)
Fall Science (Seasonal)
November
Native American Heritage Month
National Diabetes Awareness Month and World Diabetes Day (Nov 14)
➤ Diabetes Science Projects - Fostering Diabetes Awareness
➤ Explore Diabetes with Student STEM Projects
➤ Diabetes Science Projects
National Career Development Month
Fall Science (Seasonal)
Makerspace (Seasonal)
➤ 28 Projects to Jump-start Your Makerspace
➤ 18 Next-Level Makerspace STEM Projects
Thanksgiving (Nov 23, 2023 (U.S.))
➤ 13 Tasty Food Science Experiments!
➤ Squash Power
➤ Potato Science Collection
Kits to Give (Seasonal)
➤ 15 STEM Gifts & Science Kits You'll Feel Good About Giving
December
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) and Hour of Code (Dec 4-10, 2023)
Gingerbread STEM (Seasonal)
Kits to Give (Seasonal)
➤ 15 STEM Gifts & Science Kits You'll Feel Good About Giving
Winter Science (Seasonal)
New Year's Eve (Dec 31)
Additional Resources and Thematic Collections
For other collections developed to help teachers connect STEM learning and calendar events and themes, see the Teaching Science Units and Thematic Collections lists. We encourage you to browse the complete STEM Activities for Kids and Lesson Plans areas, too. Filters are available to help you narrow your search.
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