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Imagine Your Story - STEM Activities for Storytellers of All Ages!

June 2, 2022 8:00 AM

Are you getting ready for a summer of reading with kids? Make things even more creative and fun this summer with free, hands-on science and engineering activities that help students bring their stories to life. Pair Summer Reading with Storytelling Fun! Library reading programs are a hallmark of summer break! Checking off "books read" on a colorful map, a multi-part bookworm, or some other engaging book log as part of your library's summer reading… Read more

Make-Believe STEM Science Experiments and Storytelling Activities

June 1, 2022 8:00 AM

Bookmark this page for easy access to our Make-Believe STEM resources. Imaginative Play, Storytelling, and Make-Believe STEM Bookmark this page for easy access to our Make-Believe STEM resources, a curated set of themed science and engineering activities that go along with popular books, storylines, and topics for pretend, imaginative play, storytelling, and make believe. Storytelling and Summer Reading Imagine Your Story -… Read more

Art Experiments for Science Class

May 16, 2022 8:00 AM

Can science make you a better artist or help you create your next masterpiece? Put creative science on display with STEM experiments about art! Art & STEM! What does painting a picture, making a sculpture, or creating a mobile have to do with science? A lot! Science explains how colors mix and how different types of paint work on various papers and surfaces. Science explains how art materials are developed with specific properties, for example, how… Read more

Educator's Corner: Fun Science Experiment Themes

May 2, 2022 8:00 AM

Making learning fun is sometimes half the battle! With the right activities, educators can ensure learning about science and engineering involves hands-on fun for students of all ages. Bookmark this page for easy access to our Educator's Corner Science Experiments series. Hands-on STEM for K-12 Teachers See the following collections for curated sets of science experiments and activities on fun themes for the classroom! More Science… Read more

Teach About Newton's Laws of Motion

April 29, 2022 8:00 AM

Use these free STEM lessons and activities to teach about Newton's laws of motion. Newton's Laws of Motion in the K-12 Classroom Across all grade bands, students explore science related to forces, motion, and interactions between objects; concepts that use Newton's laws of motion as a fulcrum for understanding forces and motion; inertia and equilibrium; the relationship between mass and acceleration; the difference between acceleration and velocity;… Read more

Paper Roller Coasters and Energy Transformation: STEM Teacher Success Story

April 27, 2022 8:00 AM

This teacher used paper roller coasters to explore engineering design and energy transformation with high school physics students. Inspiring Students About Physics and Engineering Design As a special education teacher at Wheaton North High School in Wheaton, IL, Robert Griegoliet brings creativity and a zest for hands-on STEM instruction to the physics classroom. In addition to teaching, Robert is a curriculum coach at his school and a curriculum… Read more

Paper Chromatography Science Projects & Experiments

April 11, 2022 8:00 AM

Use these free STEM lessons and activities to experiment with paper chromatography. Experiment with Paper Chromatography Chromatography is a technique used to separate a mixture or solution into its individual components. There are several different types of chromatography, including thin-layer, column, and paper chromatography. Paper chromatography uses materials that make it accessible for chemistry exploration at the K-12 level. Paper… Read more

Explore the Science Behind Self-Driving Cars

March 22, 2022 8:00 AM

Use these free STEM lessons and activities to help K-12 students think about and experiment with designing and training self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles. Teach About Self-Driving Cars Once thought of as something only in science fiction or the future, technologies that support self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles are in development. While fully autonomous vehicles are not yet mainstream, the number of cars being produced with… Read more

Ski Lifts and Simple Machines: STEM Teacher Success Story

March 10, 2022 8:00 AM

This teacher turned a DIY ski lift engineering project into a winter-themed exploration of simple machines with her 6th-grade students. Inspiring Students About STEM Lisa Sama has been teaching engineering at Luther Burbank Middle School in Lancaster, MA for almost 20 years. In Massachusetts, engineering is included in statewide testing, so all middle school students benefit from engineering classes. While meeting curriculum goals tied to… Read more

Enter the 3M Young Scientist Challenge Video Contest!

February 14, 2022 8:00 AM

Are you America’s Top Young Scientist? Make a video about a STEM solution and enter the 3M Young Scientist Challenge for a chance to claim the title! Are you ready to change the future? Share your solution to an everyday problem and enter the 3M Young Scientist Challenge for a chance to win $25,000 and an exclusive 3M Mentorship! The 3M Young Scientist Challenge is an annual science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) challenge open to U.S.… Read more

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