Here at Hess UnAcademy, we believe that STEM activities should be an integral part of a child’s education. Whether you homeschool or public school, use these STEM activity ideas to give your kids an amazing learning adventure!
Who doesn’t love a good STEM activity? STEM activities are awesome!
They are fun, engaging, and highly educational.
They are easily adaptable for multiple ages and skillsets and depending on the age of your kids, they can even be low effort for parents and teachers.
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STEM Activities And Ideas
I have written about more than 100 STEAM activities for kids on this blog.
This includes all ages from preschoolers up to high schoolers. Feel free to use them as part of your STEM curriculum or as after school, screen-free activities.
While you could dig through my site and bounce around from post to post trying to find every single STEM activity, today I am going to gather them all up and make them easier for you to find.
Each link below links to a specific collection of STEM activities based on a common theme. That theme could be holiday, topic, or age level. I don’t know what you’re looking for in a STEM activity, and every family is looking for something different, so hopefully this organizational method makes it easy for you to find exactly what you’re looking for.
And remember – if there is ever anything you are looking for that you can’t find, please feel free to send me an email! I love hearing from my readers and I always do my best to honor custom requests. You can reach me at charlene@hessunacademy.com
And now for your STEM activities roundup. Enjoy!
STEAM and STEM Activities by Age Level
Most families prefer to find age-appropriate STEM activities. Go through the links below and find activities that are perfect for your kids’ skill sets.
STEAM and STEM Activities for Preschoolers
Even before your little one has learned to read, write, and count, they can enjoy hands-on STEM activities.
STEAM and STEM Activities for Elementary Students
Whether your kids are in 1st or 2nd grade or perhaps 5th and 6th grade, these STEM activities are perfect for elementary-aged students PreK-6.
STEAM and STEM Activities for Middle School Students
Middle school students are hovering somewhere between child-like adventures and mature teen activities. This can be an awkward age for many kids but just because they’re growing up doesn’t mean the days of hands-on activities are over.
- STEM activities for middle school students
- STEM projects for middle schoolers
- Easy STEM challenges for middle school
- Engineering activities for middle schoolers
STEAM and STEM Activities for High School Students
High school students can enjoy STEM activities too! Teens love hands-on activities and these activities are easily adapted to lessons and topics that your high schooler is enjoying.
STEAM and STEM Activities by Topic
If you’re looking for themed STEM activities rather than activities by age level, this is the collection for you.
- edible science experiments
- food STEM activities
- STEM Made Easy book edibles edition
- STEM Made Easy book: Dragons Edition
- dragon STEM activities
- STEAM art activities
- team-building STEM activities
- free STEM activities
- camping themed STEM activities
- STEM activities using paper
- solar system activities
- garden STEM projects
- STEM Made Easy: Gardening Edition book
- simple STEM activities
- summertime STEM activities
- STEM activities using household items
Holiday STEM Activities
One of the easiest ways to combine learning with holiday fun is by enjoying some holiday-themed STEM activities. You can find my entire collection of holiday STEM activities here or you can look below for specific roundups I’ve written.
The larger collection includes random holidays that I have only written one or two activities about (such as Easter and Chinese New Year for example), and the collections below each contain at least 10 activities.