STEM Festival Planning
- STEM Festival Manual for Small Communities
- Quick Reference for Festival Planning
- Science Festival Alliance
Creating Activities
- Creating Exciting Activities
- Creating a Safe and Effective Activity
- National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
Suggested Activities
Below are a few Websites where you can find suitable activities and get ideas.
archKIDecture was established to encourage visual literacy and explain math, science and visual arts concepts through the medium of architecture. The site has manay resources for teaching kids about the built environment. Architecture is a great medium for all kinds of learning and doing.
Good source for quick easy science experiments at home. These require only household items.
Excellent source for hundreds of math activities sorted by grade level and subject. There is a brief explanation of the math principle being illustrated along with a detailed description of the activity. These require only household items.
Excellent source for hundreds of science activities sorted by grade level and subject. There is a brief explanation of the principle being illustrated along with a detailed description of the activity. These require only household items.
Good source for quick easy science experiments at home. These require only household items.
Good source for quick easy science experiments at home. These require only household items.
This is a great source of science experiments. It is a commercial Website and some of the activities suggest that materials be purchased through the site. However, many require only household items or materials that are readily available elsewhere. A scientific explanation of the phenomenon illustrated is provided. You may need to sign into the site.
TryEngineering Lesson Plans (includes Computing)
Lesson plans in a myriad of sub-disciplines of engineering and computing with experiments for children of all ages. Many are easily adaptable for home or festivals.
Sample Activities
Here are a few sample activities listed by discipline that we liked. A full alphabetical listing of activities is available here: Activity List.
Architecture Engineering
Archaeology General Science
Bioscience Human Biology
Botany Math
Chemistry Physics
Computer Science Statistics
Environmental Science Zoology
Careers in STEM
- Find out what careers are hot
- American Institute for Biological Sciences
- Careers in Biology
- Earth and Physical Sciences
- Math Association of America
- Try Computing
- Try Engineering
Other Useful Resources
- Fix-It Literacy Guide - All things tools. How they work and projects to use them can be found here.
- The Encyclopedia of Earth - Geography - Great site for information on world geography with outstanding images.
- Sci Starter - Excellent place to link up with citizen science projects.