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STEM Calendar for Educators: Month by Month STEM Projects

January 5, 2026 8:00 AM

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… Read more

40 New and Cutting-Edge Science and Engineering Projects in 2025

December 30, 2025 8:00 AM

Explore 40 new, hands-on science and engineering projects added to our free STEM project library in 2025. Our team of scientists and engineers worked all year to develop engaging, accessible materials that support hands-on K–12 STEM exploration. The projects added in 2025 span disciplines from artificial intelligence and robotics to environmental science, human biology, space exploration, and physical computing, with investigations that range from data… Read more

Gingerbread STEM!

December 9, 2025 8:00 AM

Gingerbread houses and characters are a great way to capture students' attention in the days leading up to winter break! Shake things up this December with a gingerbread house building STEM challenge in your classroom or try one of these other fun gingerbread-themed science and engineering explorations. Gingerbread STEM! Activities involving gingerbread houses and gingerbread people pop up in many classrooms in December and through the winter months.… Read more

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

20+ Next-Level Makerspace STEM Projects

November 25, 2025 8:00 AM

Level up your makerspace with these activities and STEM explorations for students ready to take next steps in robotics, circuit building, programming, electronics, and more! Take Your Makerspace to the Next Level! Our original jump-start your makerspace collection highlights 26 maker-inspired STEM activities to encourage and support hands-on creativity, engineering, and innovation. This new collection builds upon the original to feature 16 STEM activities to take your makerspace to the next… Read more

28 Projects to Jump-start Your Makerspace

November 24, 2025 8:00 AM

Inspire students of all ages to enjoy STEM when you let them loose in a creative makerspace! These hands-on engineering activities use simple materials and encourage students to brainstorm, problem solve, and innovate. Enabling Exploration Community makerspaces are collaborative spaces where people of all ages can… 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

Testing the Power of Wind – Sustainability Science for the STEM Fair

November 3, 2025 6:00 AM

Sixth-grade students created a model wind turbine from recycled plastic bottles to explore how the wind turbines they see on the highway generate energy. Wind Power & Sustainability Science If you've ever driven by a wind farm on the side of the road, you may have wondered how they work. Wind turbines, which use wind energy to generate electricity, play an important role in discussions of clean and sustainable energy. With their 6th-grade… 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

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