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25+ Coding Projects for Beginners and Beyond

December 3, 2025 8:00 AM

Planning an hour of code with students for Computer Science Education Week? Try these projects and activities to help students explore computer coding now and after! It's easy for students to get started learning about computer programming and video game and app design. Basic coding involves writing an algorithmic set of steps that tell a computer exactly what to do. No matter what language or programming environment will be used, learning to write… Read more

15 STEM Kits You'll Feel Good About Giving

November 21, 2025 8:00 AM

Inspire and support a love of STEM with science and engineering kits and books! These 15 kits offer hours of STEM fun, learning, and discovery. What will the kids in your life explore, make, create, or investigate? Are you already thinking about holiday gift ideas for the young people on your gift list? Science and engineering kits and books make great gifts at any time of the year. With quality STEM kits and books, kids of all ages can explore,… Read more

Ten Tips to Start Your Own STEM Club

November 20, 2025 8:00 AM

In this guest post, Tammy Sila, an elementary school teacher in Whiting, Iowa, and a Science Buddies Ambassador, shares a firsthand look at what is involved in running a successful after-school STEM club—and how you can start your own! Do It in STEM Club! By Tammy Sila, Science Buddies Educator Ambassador Do you wish you could do more STEM with your students but struggle to find a way to fit it in with curriculum requirements? That was my… Read more

What to Do When a Science Project Isn't Working

October 27, 2025 8:00 AM

Is your STEM experiment not working the way you expected? Use these five steps to troubleshoot and get your project back on track. Troubleshooting a Science Project Sometimes a science or engineering project doesn't work the way you expected. Maybe nothing is happening at all, or maybe what you are observing just doesn't seem right. Maybe your LED won't light, your motor won't spin, or the data you are gathering just looks totally wrong. While… Read more

24 Halloween Science Experiments!

October 1, 2025 8:00 AM

From icky slime to candy coatings, fake blood, wearable LEDs, a fire snake, and things that foam, light up, or glow in the dark, we have STEM suggestions for spooky, Halloween-themed science and engineering to explore with students! Halloween Science and Engineering Projects! Trick or treat! It's Halloween season! With its emphasis on the ghostly, the ghoulish, the gruesome, the spooky, the icky, and, of course, the sweet (to eat), Halloween brings an assortment of exciting themes to… Read more

19 Fall Science Projects

September 15, 2025 8:00 AM

Pair changing leaves and temperatures, apple season, pumpkins, Thanksgiving, and fall festivities with these free lessons and activities for enriching hands-on STEM. STEM Activities to Bring Autumn Themes to Science Class 1. Invisible Ink with Turmeric The same turmeric you might have out for Autumn cooking or as a seasoning at Thanksgiving, can be used as a revealing agent in the Secret Messages With Invisible Ink! chemistry activity. Write… Read more

Hispanic Scientists and Engineers

September 2, 2025 8:34 AM

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by learning more about some of the many Hispanic and Latinx scientists and engineers who have made important contributions to science history. Hispanic Heritage Month: Scientists to learn more about! Update! This post has been updated for 2025! Learn More about these Hispanic and Latinx Scientists and Engineers In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15), we highlight a few of the Hispanic and Latinx… Read more

11 Activities to Teach Water Cycle Science

August 27, 2025 9:00 AM

Use these free STEM lessons and activities to help students get hands-on building, testing, and exploring the science of the water cycle. With more than 70% of Earth's surface covered in water, water is one of the planet's most abundant natural resources. Thanks to the natural hydrologic cycle (water cycle), water on Earth is continuously recycled. In this process, water shifts between solid, liquid, and gaseous forms, occupying all three states of… Read more

How to Use the Science Project Pathways Tool

August 19, 2025 8:00 AM

The Science Project Pathways tool allows teachers to easily create a customized timeline and schedule of assignments for all steps of a science fair project. Now with workbooks, rubrics, and pre- and post- assessment tools! Plan, Assign, & Manage Student Science Projects Do you have students do independent science projects? Science projects can offer an exceptional, personalized learning opportunity, but they can also be challenging to plan and… Read more

Four Ways to Teach the Scientific Method

July 16, 2025 8:00 AM

Teaching students about the scientific method helps prepare them to do science experiments and to design and execute their own science fair projects to explore science questions. These four free plug-and-play resources help you approach the scientific method with tools and learning aids that suit the needs of your classroom. Teaching Steps of the Scientific Method Whether preparing students to do classroom science experiments and science fair projects… Read more

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