Stem for first grade

Getting Started With First Grade STEM Activities and Challenges

These Stem activities for kids are so much fun and so easy to set up! These hands on activities are engaging and full of science learning. These kindergarten Stem activities work great in a classroom, or are the perfect addition to your homeschool.

Have you ever read a book to your first graders that included a sing-song chant they could repeat? (Think Pete the Cat and his new shoes....) Once the kids get the rhyme down pat they will repeat it everytime you get to that part. I also had this happen with There Was an Old Lady

Discover some fascinating, no prep, STEM activities and challenges you can do with your students using paper! Engineering, math and science.

A few years ago I began Genius Hour on Fridays to incorporate STEM into our classroom. STEM (which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is an engaging, hands on way to get students to communicate, collaborate, be creative, think critically, and exercise compassion. These are all important skills for life and even your littlest students ... Read More about STEM in the First Grade Classroom

We did another STEM activity this week. The students worked in teams of three or four to build a bridge using four cups, yarn, and tape. Th...

"I like to eat nice juicy children," says the Enormous Crocodile. Nothing like that line to get some kids to raise their eyebrows, or laugh. Mostly they laugh. It's one of those moments in a read aloud book where the kids are hanging onto your words and soaking them up like little sponges-- until they

See how Newton's Third Law of action and reaction explains why airplanes fly in the sky, ships move through water and rockets launch into space.

Awesome STEM activities for first grade. Tons of ideas for STEM centers, science projects and math games. And they're all just right for first graders!

These STEM activities for 1st grade are the perfect place to find first grade STEM lesson plans that you can use in the classroom or at home!