STEM Challenges Bundle: Pioneer, Desert Island, Arctic Circle STEM Activities

STEM Challenges Bundle

STEM activities are a great way to integrate math and science into meaningful, hands-on learning! This bundle includes 3 themed-packs, each with its own engaging storyline. Students will help a stranded sailor escape a desert island, a group of explorers stuck in the arctic, and a pioneer family brave the wild west. Each challenge solves a problem faced by the characters in the story. Exciting and fun!

This bundle includes the following resources:

These include a total of 15 different challenges:

Water Filter
Cabin Construction
Tower Building
Solar Water Heater
Rock Mover (pulleys)
Ice Shelter
Floating Raft
Waterproof Container
Insulating Blanket
Snowball Shooter
Parachute Design
Hut Building
Bridge Building
Coconut Catapult
Tower Design

Each STEM challenge includes teacher instructions, student challenge sheet, planning and design pages, and scoring rubrics. There is a set of team member role cards, design process cards, a master score sheet to find out which group is the most successful at helping the explorers, and associated NGSS standards.

These STEM challenges use common materials that you probably already have in your classroom. They incorporate concepts of linear measurement, area, force and motion, energy, simple machines, data, and scientific process.

All 15 activities are provided in both standard and metric versions.