On this page you will find several activities that will engage learners. The activities involve hands on experience, discussion, and critical thinking skills. The students will be amazed at how STEM plays an important part of their learning and how it is useful for the real world and their future.
Rocket Science
This lesson is about creating rockets that will project into the air with water and pressurized air. "Working in teams, you will design and build rockets powered by water and pressurized air. Using what you learn about the fundamentals of force and motion, you will design and build a fully functional rocket including: payload compartment, propulsion system, recovery system and guidance system. These words may look foreign to you now, but soon you will know them as well as any rocket scientist!" Credit: Bryan Harms See full lesson here |
X, Y Marks the Spot
This lesson has the students make their own treasure map. "Immediately thoughts of longitudinal and latitudinal lines streaked across my mind creating a Cartesian plane. Individual locations served as the coordinates; routes from one place to another were defined by linear equations. A mathematical treasure map was born." Credit: hightechhigh.org (author unknown) See full lesson here |
Go Fly A Kite!
This lesson is really hands on and I think students will love creating and learning about Geometry, force, and motion. "Through the process of design, building, playing and analyzing kites; students acquire essential understanding of geometry, force and motion." Credit: Bryan Harms See full lesson here |
Domino Effect
"Domino's does not tell you how much the component pieces cost; they only tell you an item's final price after you build it. In this lesson, students use linear equations to find the base price (y-intercept) and cost per additional topping (slope). Let's find out how much Domino's is really charging for pizza." Source: mathalicious See full lesson here |
New-Tritional Info
"In this lesson, students will use unit rates and proportional reasoning to determine how long they’d have to exercise to burn off different McDonald’s menu items. For instance, a 160-pound person would have to run for 50 minutes to burn off a Big Mac. So…want fries with that?!" Source: mathalicious See full lesson here |