K - 5 STEM Curriculum Bundle | Full-Year Engineering Activities

K–5 STEM Curriculum Bundle | 216 Weekly Engineering Challenges | Full-Year Teacher Lesson Plans for Every Grade

Six full-year STEM curricula — 36 weekly engineering design challenges per grade, one for every week of the school year, in six units with a five-session structure — 1,074 pages of teacher-facing lesson plans from Kindergarten through 5th Grade, using materials you already have.

This is the backbone of the K–5 STEM program: the lesson plans a teacher opens on Monday. Every other resource in the store — the challenge cards, journals, projects, task cards, early finishers, and sub plans — is built to sit on top of these six curricula. Buy this and you have the year planned. Add the companions when you want them.

What’s Included

Six complete grade-level curricula (1,074 pages, 216 weekly challenges):

Kindergarten STEM Curriculum — 36 challenges on an Ask → Imagine → Build → Share routine, sized for five-year-olds. Ends with an Invention Convention.
1st Grade STEM Curriculum — Units: Engineering & Design · Materials & Structures · Forces & Motion · Plants & Animals · Weather & Earth · STEM Problem Solving. Capstone: Young Engineers Showcase.
2nd Grade STEM Curriculum — Units: Engineering Design · Matter & Materials · Forces & Motion · Living Systems · Earth & Weather · Human Solutions. Capstone: STEM Problem Solvers Showcase.
3rd Grade STEM Curriculum — Units: Engineering Design · Forces & Motion · Matter & Materials · Life Science · Earth & Space · Engineering for Communities. Capstone: STEM Investigators Showcase.
4th Grade STEM Curriculum — Units: Engineering Design · Energy · Waves & Communication · Earth Systems · Life Science · Engineering Our World. Capstone: STEM Designers & Innovators Showcase.
5th Grade STEM Curriculum — Units: Engineering Design & Innovation · Matter & Chemical Systems · Energy · Earth & Space · Ecosystems & Sustainability · Technology & Future Solutions. Capstone: STEM Innovators Showcase.
The Challenges

Six units per grade, six challenges per unit, one per week. A sample from each year:

K: Tower Power · A Chair for Teddy · Bridge for a Toy Car · Ramp Racers · Boats Afloat · Magnet Movers · Rain Shelter · Stop the Flood · Playground Designers
1st: Tallest Tower Challenge · Windproof House · Earthquake-Proof Tower · Balloon-Powered Car · Seed Dispersal Device · Erosion Barrier · Pulley Power · Design a Playground
2nd: Design a Stronger Bridge · Design a Water Filter · Build a Marble Run · Design a Parachute · Pollinator Garden Model · Erosion Control Engineers · Design a Water-Saving Device · Design for Everyone
3rd: Design a Bridge · Build a Wind-Powered Vehicle · Create a Solar Oven · Build a Model Ecosystem · Design a Weather Station · Create an Earthquake-Resistant Structure · Engineering for Water Access
4th: Solar and renewable energy · Communication systems · Erosion protection · Earthquake-resistant buildings · Biomimicry · Product design
5th: Water purification · Solar-powered devices · Wind turbines · Energy grids · Earthquake-resistant structures · Mars habitats · Assistive technology · Sustainable cities
How a Week Runs

From 1st Grade up, each challenge follows the same five-session structure — Ask, Investigate/Imagine, Plan, Build & Test, Improve & Reflect — so students learn one routine and use it all year. Kindergarten runs a simpler four-step routine in shorter sessions. Every challenge has a driving question, criteria, constraints, and a prediction before building; from 2nd Grade up, required trial counts and data to record; from 4th up, a client scenario and a budget.

How It Grows, K–5

K: count, compare, build, and try again — Ask · Imagine · Build · Share
1st: change one thing and test again; measure in cm; simple data
2nd: three ideas before choosing; repeated trials; graphs; numbers as evidence
3rd: independent/dependent/controlled variables; fair tests; efficiency; claim–evidence–reasoning; unplugged coding
4th: measurable criteria; budgets and cost per unit; weighted decision matrices; source reliability
5th: trade-offs and optimization; ratios and rates; technical summaries; flowcharts and pseudocode
By Week 36 of 5th Grade, students independently define a problem, research it, run the full engineering process, and report a recommendation someone could act on.

Format

6 PDF files, 1,074 pages total
Teacher-facing lesson plans; print-and-go
All challenges use everyday classroom supplies — cups, straws, tape, paper, string, blocks — with a materials list for every challenge and no kit required
Teaching duration: 1 full school year per grade
Build Out From Here

Each curriculum has six companion resources, all built on the same 36-week sequence and unit colors:

K–5 STEM Challenge Cards — the student-facing card for every weekly challenge, plus Level Up extensions and Quick Builds
K–5 STEM Journals — the student recording pages for every weekly challenge
K–5 STEM Projects — the six unit capstones per grade, extended into full team projects, plus 72 mini-projects
K–5 STEM Task Cards — 5–10 minute skill practice with answer keys
K–5 STEM for Early Finishers — a self-managing routine for independent time
K–5 STEM Sub Plans — scripted lessons for absence days
All seven, for all six grades, are in the K–5 STEM Mega Bundle.

Why Buy the Bundle

Six curricula bought separately cost $142.94. This bundle is $89.99 — and gives a STEM specialist or a whole elementary building one 216-week engineering sequence, K through 5, with every companion resource designed to plug straight in.

Ask. Imagine. Plan. Build. Test. Improve — 36 weeks, every grade.