Spark creativity and critical thinking with this Pack of 2D Shape STEM Challenge Cards! These hands-on activity cards invite students to build a variety of 2D shapes using balls, sticks, or other creative materials. With accompanying recording sheets, students reflect on their designs, identify key attributes, and strengthen their understanding of shapes.
Perfect for STEM centers, small group work, or independent exploration, this resource combines geometry with problem-solving in a fun, interactive way.
Shapes included – square, triangle, rhombus, rectangle, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, kite, trapezium and parallelogram.
What’s Included -
2D Shape STEM Challenge Cards (2 different types of cards): Each card features a specific shape (e.g., triangle, square, hexagon) for students to construct with tactile materials.
2D Shape STEM Slides: Suitable for classroom display on your electronic whiteboard (PowerPoint + Google Slides versions)
Recording Sheets: Students document their creations, noting shape attributes like sides and vertices.
Poster prompts: Two different larger format posters to prompt your students.
Print Ready + Editable Versions: Choose from a ready to print PDF or choose your own language or fonts and edit in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Key Features -
Hands-On STEM Learning: Encourages students to explore geometry through building and problem-solving.
**Reinforces Shape Recognition: **Helps students internalize 2D shape properties by constructing and recording them.
Develops Fine Motor Skills: Manipulating small parts like toothpicks and playdough enhances hand-eye coordination.
Versatile Use: Perfect for STEM centers, math lessons, small group challenges, or early finisher activities.
This 2D Shape STEM Challenge Pack helps students connect math concepts to real-world problem-solving, making geometry engaging and meaningful.
Why You’ll Love It -
Encourages Creativity and Collaboration: Students can work independently or in pairs to complete the challenges.
Supports Multiple Learning Styles: Combines hands-on activities with visual and written components.
**Teacher-Friendly: **Easy to prep and perfect for reuse—just print and go!
Make geometry exciting with these 2D Shape STEM Challenge Cards!
File type –
Ready to print PDF + editable PowerPoint and Google Slides versions
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This resource is a handy bookmark designed to support pupils in engaging in structured and respectful classroom discussions. It provides a range of sentence starters to help children confidently express their ideas, respond to others and build on conversations.
The bookmark includes sentence stems for agreeing, disagreeing politely and adding to a point. These prompts encourage pupils to justify their thinking, listen carefully to others and contribute more thoughtfully to discussions.
Ideal for years 3+, this resource can be used across the curriculum to support talk in subjects such as English, maths and wider curriculum areas. It works well during partner talk, group work and whole-class discussions.
By promoting clear and respectful communication, this resource helps develop pupils’ speaking and listening skills while building confidence in sharing and developing ideas.
I have used these discussion bubbles to aid communication and partner talk in a wide range of lessons.
Contains symbols from Widgit Inprint 3 software.
3 bubbles - giving a new opinion
3 bubbles - agreeing
3 bubbles - disagreeing
3 bubbles - building/questioning an opinion
A ready-to-use whole-school assembly PowerPoint created to celebrate British Science Week and inspire curiosity about science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Suitable for KS1 and KS2 pupils, this engaging assembly introduces children to the importance of science in everyday life while showcasing inspiring scientists and exciting scientific discoveries.
What’s Included
Fully prepared PowerPoint assembly
Clear, child-friendly explanations
Engaging visuals to support understanding
Discussion opportunities throughout
Suitable for whole-school or phase assemblies
No preparation required – simply open and present
Assembly Content
Introduction to British Science Week and its purpose in promoting STEM learning
British Science Week
The importance of science in helping us understand and solve real-world problems
British Science Week
Famous scientists who changed the world, including:
Marie Curie
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
British Science Week
More inspiring scientists such as:
Jane Goodall
Charles Darwin
Stephen Hawking
British Science Week
Fascinating science facts covering space, light, DNA and Earth science
British Science Week
Ideas for experiments, science projects and ways pupils can take part in Science Week activities
British Science Week
Ideal For
Whole-school assemblies
British Science Week
Science Week launches
STEM enrichment
Primary science curriculum enrichment
Key Stage Suitability
KS1 and KS2
Easily adaptable for different age groups
Introduce students to the internal structure of a plant stem with this interactive and visual worksheet set! Perfect for grades 3–6, this resource teaches essential vocabulary such as epidermis, cortex, phloem, xylem, cambium, and pith.
This no-prep activity includes diagram labeling, a word search, coloring pages, and a maze to support a range of learning styles. It’s ideal for science centers, classroom lessons, sub plans, or homeschooling.
What’s Included:
Internal stem diagram with labeling task
Word bank and answer key
Coloring page of stem cross-section
Word search with key plant terms + solution
Maze activity + solution
Space for name and date on each worksheet
Skills Targeted:
Plant anatomy and structure
Understanding the function of vascular tissues (xylem & phloem)
Science vocabulary development
Labeling scientific diagrams
Fine motor and visual learning
STEM Building Bridges lesson - Great for Kindergarten & elementary.
This pack contains:
Teacher directions & guide
Slideshow in PDF & Powerpoint - can also be used as task cards
Two drawing extension sheets in PDF
This slideshow contains various photos of bridges from around the world. Show these bridges to your students along with the examples, then let creativity take over.
Great read aloud lesson - Thomas & The Big Big Bridge.
Need basic materials to start.
In this race against the clock students work as a team to build the highest tower possible out of dried spaghetti and marshmallows.
The objective of this lesson is to explore structures and investigate what methods of building can make the tallest and strongest structure. By testing their prototype buildings, students will also have the opportunity to rebuild and alter their designs to improve them, giving an insight into the real-life processes of testing, redevelopment and prototyping that engineers and scientists use.
Pencil shape question stems that can be used by children and by staff. Great for display in classrooms and as an activity for children to complete in order to reflect on their learning.
Kindergarten STEM. Kindergarten kids will love these brilliant and simple STEM activities!
Here are some FUN lessons and activities for doing STEM in kindergarten!
This Kindergarten STEM includes:
#1 - seven lessons plans
#2 - stem activities
#3 - stem printables
#4 - extension activities
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Twelve themed schemes of work that can be used in STEM clubs or for fun science lessons. All practical lessons.
Each scheme of work contains a number of lessons based around that theme that can be carried out over a number of weeks.
for each lesson in each scheme of work there is a lesson plan which lists all equipment needed,how to set up and how to carry out the activity. and a colouful student instruction sheet which can be printed off and laminated or displayed on the board
once upon a STEM
star wars STEM
christmas STEM
easter STEM
colour and fun themed STEM
STEM the science of food
valentines themed STEM
Cosmetics themed STEM
STEM practical challenges
STEM Scavenger hunt
Borax free slime recipes
Bubble themed scheme of work
Halloween themed STEM Scheme of work
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This unit contains 4 lessons and an assessment task.
Children will be designing a playground using their prior learning from year 1 as well as acquiring new knowledge throughout this unit. At the end of this sequence children will design their playground and answer questions to demonstrate their understanding.
Lesson 1 - To identify uses of different everyday materials.
Lesson 2 - To identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials.
Lesson 3 - To explain how the shapes of objects made from some materials can be changed.
Lesson 4 -To explain the process of recycling.
Lesson 5 - Assessment task - Designing and answering questions.
All lessons start with active rewind (recap) tasks. These provide an informal assessment for teachers, remind children of their prior learning to help learning go into their long term memory and put relevant prior learning in the forefront of children’s minds as they acquire new learning.
Children will have stem sentences to support oracy and enable children to focus on the learning rather than forming sentences.
Independent task
In each lesson children will be built up to completing an independent task/s.
Every task has a helping hands task. This aims to remove barriers to children accessing the main task such as using stem sentences to allow children to focus on their learning not the structuring of sentences.
The chilli challenge should be provided to all learners the ’ differentiation ’ will be based on how children complete the task.
Halloween Science Experiment Cards Printable: A spooky set of science experiment cards featuring five fun activities, including self-inflating balloons, magic ink, and Skittles diffusion. Perfect for exciting, hands-on learning at home or in the classroom.
This printable set combines Halloween fun with science exploration, encouraging curiosity and experimentation. Each card provides simple instructions for engaging activities that teach concepts like chemical reactions, chromatography, and diffusion. Ideal for STEM lessons, Halloween parties, or at-home learning, these cards make science both educational and festive. Suitable for elementary-aged children and up.
These Maths STEM sentence starters are a prompt for children to use when discussing their maths.
The sentence starters provide the children an opportunity to share what they have observed and understood about their learning. This allows you to assess children’s level of understanding.