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—Month by Month
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January
Fluor Engineering Challenge (Revealed)
Winter Science (Seasonal)
February
Black History Month
➤ Learn More About these 32 Scientists for Black History Month
Lunar New Year (Feb 1)
Winter Olympics (next 2026)
Super Bowl (Feb 12 2023)
Valentine's Day (Feb 14)
Fluor Engineering Challenge (Feb 20- Mar 20 2022)
➤ 2022 Fluor Challenge
➤ Paper Ball Run Project for Students
➤ Paper Ball Run Lesson Plans
Engineers Week (Feb 19-25 2023) & Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Feb 24)
➤ Free Lessons and Videos to Teach the Engineering Design Process
➤ 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's History Month: 50+ Women in Science and Engineering to Learn More About
Mario Day (Mar 10)
➤ Mario Day Activities — Bring Mario World to Life with Hands-on STEM!
March Madness (Mar 13-Apr 4)
Pi Day (Mar 14)
St. Patrick's Day (Mar 17)
Spring Science (Seasonal)
Last day to enter the Fluor Engineering Challenge (Mar 20 2022)
World Water Day (Mar 22)
Junior Solar Sprint (Variable)
April
Weather (Seasonal)
Plant Science (Seasonal)
Spring Science (Seasonal)
Robotics Week (Apr 1-8 2023)
➤ Teach About Robotics with Free STEM Lessons & Activities
➤ 20 Tips for Doing Robotics with Kids
Easter (Apr 9 2023)
➤ 5 STEM Activities with Marshmallow Peeps
➤ Egg Science for K-12 Students
Earth Day (Apr 22)
➤ Earth Day Science Activities
➤ Teach About Biodiversity with Free STEM Lessons & Activities
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 8)
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 Science (Coming 2022)
➤ 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
World Oceans Day (Jun 8)
➤ Ocean Science Projects
➤ Oceanic Circulation: What Keeps the Ocean in Motion?
Father's Day (Jun 19)
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 18)
Clean Beaches Week (Jul 1-7)
U.S. Independence Day (Jul 4)
➤ Fireworks and Picnics STEM
➤ 5 Summer Science Picks for Independence Day!
➤ Red, White, and Blue with Soft Circuits
➤ Discover the Flaming Colors of Fireworks
Alice in Wonderland Day (Jul 4)
Anniversary of Apollo Moon Landing (Jul 20)
➤ Explore Crater Science to Celebrate Moon Landing Anniversary
August
Back to School (Seasonal)
➤ 7 Icebreaker Activities for Science Class!
➤ Educator's Corner: Fun Science Experiment Themes
➤ Curated Resources for Teaching Science Units
National Roller Coaster Day (Aug 16)
➤ Paper Roller Coasters: Kinetic and Potential Energy
➤ Build a Paper Roller Coaster
➤ 12 Activities and Lessons to Teach Potential and Kinetic Energy
National Aviation Day (Aug 18)
➤ Defining an Engineering Design Problem with Paper Airplanes
➤ Paper Airplanes: Why Flaps and Folds Matter
September
Back to School (Seasonal)
➤ 7 Icebreaker Activities for Science Class!
➤ Educator's Corner: Fun Science Experiment Themes
➤ Curated Resources for Teaching Science Units
Fall science (Seasonal)
National Biodiversity Month (September)
➤ Teach About Biodiversity with Free STEM Lessons & Activities
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
October
National Disability Employment Awareness Month (Oct)
World Architecture Day (Oct 3)
Earth Science Week (Oct 9-15)
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
National Health Education Week (Oct 17-21)
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)
November
Native American Heritage Month
National Diabetes Awareness Month and World Diabetes Day (Nov 14)
Makerspace (Seasonal)
Thanksgiving (Nov 24 (U.S.))
➤ 13 Tasty Food Science Experiments!
➤ Squash Power
➤ Potato Science Collection
Kits to Give (Seasonal)
December
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) and Hour of Code (Dec 5-11)
Gingerbread STEM (Seasonal)
Holiday STEM (Seasonal)
➤ Holiday STEM Projects
➤ Light Up Your Creativity with Electric Play Dough
➤ A Water Sensor Circuit for the Tree
➤ Take a Candle Carousel for a Spin
Kits to Give (Seasonal)
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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