STEM Resources

Develop your fifth grade students' creative problem-solving skills with STEM Lessons and Challenges. Students apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to solve real-world problems.

Every grade 5 unit is focused on a hands-on challenge and guides students to work together as engineers to design, prototype, test, and refine their creations.

• The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, Earth, and physical science concepts.
• Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
• No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.

• Teacher overview pages—Tips and directions for preparing students to complete a STEM challenge, as well as a materials list that suggests readily available items to gather.
• Reading selections for background knowledge—Foundational information that is relevant to the challenge that students are completing.
• Visual real-world examples—A visual literacy page with real-world images relevant to the STEM challenge.
• A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.
• Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.
• A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.

• Mousetrap (Life Science Concept: Simple Machines)
• Oil Spill Boom (Earth Science Concept: Buoyancy/Properties of Oil)
• Remote-Control Game (Physical Science Concept: Compound Machines)

• One of the most brilliant STEM toys for developing creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• An exciting introduction to the building blocks of engineering and math.
• Includes 8 light-up cubes, 4 rails, 52 colorful cubes and 20 steel marbles.
• Marbles are nickel plated steel balls. They are not magnets.

Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating. Simple STEAM helps parents realize they don't need to be engineers or scientists to support STEAM learning.

• Help children explore STEAM concepts with fun and engaging activities
• Discover STEAM learning opportunities in everyday activities and experiences
• Prepare children for kindergarten
• Build crucial 21st century learning skills, including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking

Winner of Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award for 2017!

• Stimulate young minds with creativity, imagination and science.
• Light up your 3D circuits with our unique power block.
• Great addition to any STEAM curriculum.
• Patented Technology you won't find in any other toy brick set.
• Use your own imagination to create awesome structures
• Compatible with other toy brick sets
• Enhance and bring lights to your other builds.
• Contains over 70 parts.
• One (1) 9V Battery Required.
• Ages 8 and up.

Children piece together circuit blocks in different combinations to become more familiar with how a circuit works while also developing problem-solving skills. Starter Set contains on switch, battery pack, buzzer, light, 5 direction pieces and a helicopter piece. The Expansion Pack challenges students to make bigger and more complex electronic circuits by adding more electronic blocks, lights and switches. Each set includes activity sheet with circuit ideas. Batteries not included

Young children are born scientists with an innate desire to analyze and investigate the world around them. Creative Investigations in Early Science helps educators expand and encourage young learners' inquisitive nature as they explore the physical, life, and earth sciences.

Each chapter provides educators practical and approachable ways to intentionally foster young scientists' hands-on, minds-on explorations in the following areas:

• Matter and physical properties
• Physical and chemical changes
• Conservation and sustainability
• Earth and space systems