STEM for Success Showcase contains collections of student STEM creations.
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Bubble Wand Activity
Admin STEM for Success
Students use this activity to practice their engineering skills by building a bubble wand.
Activity Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=wx0-NrAnE6c&feature=emb_logo
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Building Structures
Admin STEM for Success
This activity challenges students to build a safe and sound structure using only candy and toothpicks.
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Calculating Area
Admin STEM for Success
Students will understand where formulas of four common shapes came from.
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Calming Jar Activity
Admin STEM for Success
Students use crazy glue and water to make a "calming jar."
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Candy Heart Experiment
Admin STEM for Success
Students practice the scientific process by running an experiment to discover how well candy hearts dissolve in different liquids.
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Can You Fit Through an Index Card Video
Admin STEM for Success
This video demonstrates how we can fit our entire body through an index card using just a scissor.
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Climate Change
Admin STEM for Success
This lesson plan teaches students about climate change and its effect on animals and insects. Students can then participate in a climate change fact or myth game and a climate change Pictionary game.
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Cooking with Chemistry: Marshmallows
Admin STEM for Success
This lesson plan teaches students thermodynamics, foam, and other chemistry topics by cooking marshmallows.
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Earthquake Resistant Buildings
Admin STEM for Success
Students learn about earthquakes and engineering by building a structure that can survive an earthquake.
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Farmer's Tower
Admin STEM for Success
Students are challenged to help a famer build a tower to monitor their crops using only wood planks and pumpkins.
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Financial Literacy with Rock Candy
Admin STEM for Success
Video lesson that uses rock candy to teach students about financial literacy.
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Goonie Shooters Activity
Admin STEM for Success
Students are asked to design a "Goon Shooter" to launch "goons" as far as possible.
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Homemade Catapults
Admin STEM for Success
Video activity where students are led through the creation of a homemade catapult to learn about forces.
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Hovering Potato ~ Activity Plan
Admin STEM for Success
This experiment is a great example of chemistry. This experiment relies heavily on density and diffusion.
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Water is less dense than half of a potato. Therefore, the potato sinks.
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Sugar water is more dense than half of a potato. Therefore, the potato floats.
By slowly adding water to sugar water, two layers are formed which allows the potato to hover in between. Slowly adding the water allows for diffusion to occur at a minimum.
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How to Create 3rd - 5th Grade Activity Plans
Admin STEM for Success
This flier provides elementary school teacher with a guide for how to create science activities and labs for their students.
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Invisible Ink
Admin STEM for Success
Students create invisible ink to hide and reveal a message using chemistry.
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Lesson plans in Astronomy, Ecology and Biology
Admin STEM for Success
This document contains various lesson plan ideas for concepts within the fields of biology, ecology, astronomy, and geology.
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Lets Make Rock Candy!
Admin STEM for Success
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Students should…
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be familiar with terms such as solubility, solute, solvent, and supersaturated solution.
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have a basic understanding of crystallization.
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understand the concept of delayed gratification and how they can practice this skill in their everyday lives to make smart financial decisions.
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Lise Meitner
Admin STEM for Success
This video lesson teaches the life and work of Lise Meitner, a female physicist involved in the discovery of nuclear fission.
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Magnetic Slime
Admin STEM for Success
Students learn chemistry and physics by making magnetic slime.
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Magnetism Activity
Admin STEM for Success
This interactive activity teaches students about magnetism.
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Marble Run Maze Challenge
Admin STEM for Success
Students are asked to use provided materials to design and build a successful marble run. Attached is the activity worksheet for students and the teacher reflection on the activity.
