STEAM Experiments to Try in Your Classroom

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1 - This activity of the week is from NASA and researches how different food ripen. Here is a link with some more information, including a few CCSS standards which the activity addresses.

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2 - This activity students look at what happens to eggs when they are placed in different liquids. Tons of opportunity for predictions, observations, and explorations. 3 insanely cool egg experiments.

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3 - This week's activity has students designing a system where a cup can carry a marble down a zip line and then also drop it on a target. This is something you could do as a whole class, small groups, or even have kids work individually. The link provides all the directions and even includes a PDF and links the activity to where the students would maybe see an occupation using these skills.

 

4 - In this activity students will be creating their own hot air balloons and determine how hot air rises differently than cold air. This is meant to be done in small groups within your classroom. The link provided has all the materials, directions, and expected outcomes listed.

 

5 - This fun experiment is something you can do as a whole class over several days. You place pennies in bowls of different liquids and observe the effects the liquids have on the penny throughout time (up to 72 hours.)

 

6 - This is a neat and quick experiment to do with one cooked egg and one uncooked egg. This can be done quickly as a whole class with some more flexible time to allow for followup conversations Have your students make their own hypothesis to how the egg will be different when spun, and also how they will continue their motion if spun, stopped, and let go of.

 

7 - This experiment is the opposite of the hot air balloon experiment, and is one you can do as a whole class. You will be showing how hot water in a water bottle put in ice water can affect how the air inside the water bottle reacts.

 

8 - Did you know you can make hot ice? This experiment does require a stove, but if the resources could be found it would be an awesome experiment to do with your class.

 

9 - Simulate how rain comes from clouds with this cool experiment. The activity could be used as a whole class, small groups, or individually.

 

10 - Give your students some time to be inventors. Ask them what they would invent if they were able to invent anything. You can have their invention be focused around a goal if you want, or let them be as creative as they want. Here is an example of some things other students have wanted to design. Once the students have an idea, let them draw how their invention would look.

 

11 - Next week is a solar eclipse. This activity allows your students to see all the different phases of the eclipse.

 

12 - Can you blow up a balloon without it ever touching your lips and not using an air pump? This experiment will do just that for you. Have your students predict what will happen. You can even try this with a few more ingredients and have them make guess on which one(s) may work.

 

13 - Making things disappear is magic, or science. In this experiment you can make glass disappear in a beaker of oil. The students can make guesses on what will happen when a glass object is placed into the oil.

 

14 - This amazing water trick will make you think twice about how water mixes. Do hot and cold water really combine to make warm water? This experiment will show you how water really reacts to the different temperatures.

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