STEM

Educational diagram about molds showing mold growing on bread, magnified fungal structures, a microscope, and key facts comparing molds, yeasts, and mushrooms.

Bread Mold Experiment for Kids: A Simple 5-Day Science Activity

Are you looking for a science experiment that is simple to prepare but still gives young learners plenty to observe, discuss, and record? A bread mold experiment is an engaging way to introduce children to fungi, decomposition, food safety, and the scientific method. Using just a few familiar materials, students can investigate how moisture and other environmental conditions affect mold growth.

Partially colored educational worksheet showing animals and insects that live above and below the soil, including a rabbit, mole, earthworm, ants, ground beetle, snail, bumblebee, and ladybug around a carrot plant.

Learning About Soil Animals Through Coloring

These soil animals coloring pages for Grades 2–3 help children explore this hidden world through detailed illustrations, observation, coloring, labeling, comparing, and simple science discussions.

Painting with Soil educational worksheet pack showing soil samples, natural pigments, soil paint steps, brushes, and student art activities.

Painting with Soil:

A Hands-On Soil Science and Natural Pigment Art Activity for Grades 2–3

Easy Window Bean Germination Experiment for Grades 2-3

Easy Window Bean Germination Experiment for Grades 2-3

That is why the window bean germination experiment is an absolute game-changer for elementary classrooms! 

An NGSS-Aligned Soil Jar Experiment The investigation gives young scientists an opportunity to make predictions, carry out a hands-on test, record observations, identify patterns, and use evidence to explain their results.

An NGSS-Aligned Soil Jar Experiment

The investigation gives young scientists an opportunity to make predictions, carry out a hands-on test, record observations, identify patterns, and use evidence to explain their results.

Child using a cut-and-paste terrarium worksheet, placing a cactus into a dry habitat scene with animal cutouts, scissors, and glue on the table.

Build Your Own Animal Habitat in the Classroom or at Home

The world of snakes, chameleons, turtles, and the popular axolotl fascinates them. But how can we help them understand what these living creatures need to survive? The answer: through fun, hands-on, experiential learning!

how animals adapt to survive in extreme environments—

Animal Adaptations Made Fun!

This “Design a Super Fox!” activity is a fantastic, hands-on way to introduce elementary students (K–3) to how animals adapt to survive in extreme environments—specifically the scorching desert and the freezing Arctic.

Child completing a “Design an Alien Animal” science worksheet, drawing a purple adapted creature in an icy habitat and describing its survival features.

Design an Alien Animal STEM Activity!

By combining science, critical thinking, and creativity, this “Design an Alien Animal” activity takes kids on an exciting mission to a fictional ice world called Gliese-8

A Simple Leaf Chromatography Experiment for Kids

A Simple Leaf Chromatography Experiment for Kids

Leaf chromatography is a hands-on STEM activity where students use rubbing alcohol and filter paper to separate the hidden pigments inside a green leaf.

Pine Cone Weather Station Science Experiment

Pine Cone Weather Station Science Experiment

Turn an ordinary pine cone into a fascinating natural moisture indicator! In this hands-on science experiment, students investigate how the scales of a mature pine cone respond to wet and dry conditions.

Teaching Soil as a Natural Resource with an Earth as an Apple Investigation

Teaching Soil as a Natural Resource with an Earth as an Apple Investigation

One of the challenges of teaching soil as a natural resource is helping young learners understand scale. Students can see soil almost everywhere around them, so the idea that productive soil and suitable farmland are limited may seem surprising.

The resource introduces blubber as a thick layer of fat under the skin and includes a diagram showing the basic layers of skin, blubber, and muscle.

Teaching Decomposers and Matter Cycling in Grade 5: A Simple Apple Investigation

With one familiar object, students can investigate microbes, environmental conditions, fair testing, data collection, graphing, scientific models, and the conservation of matter.

The resource introduces blubber as a thick layer of fat under the skin and includes a diagram showing the basic layers of skin, blubber, and muscle.

Cactus Adaptations STEM Experiment

How can a cactus survive for weeks—or even months—with very little rain? One important adaptation is its waxy outer covering, called a cuticle. This thin protective layer helps slow water loss from the plant’s surface.

The resource introduces blubber as a thick layer of fat under the skin and includes a diagram showing the basic layers of skin, blubber, and muscle.

Test a Model Blubber Layer

The resource introduces blubber as a thick layer of fat under the skin and includes a diagram showing the basic layers of skin, blubber, and muscle.

What happens when a tomato leaf does not receive light? In this simple experiment, students make predictions, observe changes, and explore why plants need light.

Tomato Plant Light Experiment: What Happens Without Light?

Try this simple tomato plant light experiment to show elementary students what happens when a leaf receives no sunlight for one week.