Materials and structures

Explore different materials and their properties with this engaging unit. Activities and printables for the Foundation and Prep Year chemistry strand.

STEM for first and second graders! Post includes books to read, list of materials, and basic directions for use!

Need a sure-fire way to grab the attention of your students? The lines of a recent book we read just snagged us! "First come rumbling flatbed trucks, bundles of steel on their backs, like a gleaming endless river surging through the concrete canyons of Manhattan." Wasn't that just delicious! The figurative language all by itself

Best Structure Building Activities to do with preschool, kindergarten, and grade school age kids. Try these STEM challenges and engineering projects with simple materials.

STEM Earthquake Challenge - students experiment on cardboard houses & different materials to create the best structure to withstand a simulated earthquake.

For this paper structure engineering challenge you just need paper and scotch tape. Then, give your kids time to be creative and innovative! Kids learn from taking items from their everyday life and using them in new ways to do simple things. It helps them understand the world around them and how things work.

Awesome STEM engineering project with basic household materials! Fun way for kids to practice essential science skills (measurement, creating a hypothesis, conducting an experiment, using science tools, thinking like a scientist, and more) in a short amount of time.

Do you want some fun activities to add to your third-grade science unit Strong and Stable Structures? These experiments are sure to get students engaged and learning with a hands-on approach! This blog post is full of great ideas and suggestions to help make science FUN! #science #ontario #strong #stable #structures #ideas #experiments #activities #3rdgrade #thirdgrade

To introduce my students to the concept of different materials (and that materials have different purposes depending on what they are being used for) we began with a hunt around our classroom. I wanted to see if students understood what “materials” meant and also how many different ones they could identify. I was impressed with […]

Materials & their Properties