Below are all the activities posted by the Million Girls Moonshot monthly assets from 2021 – 2022.
- 10 Team Building Activities for Students – This blog outlines 10 team building activities that can be implemented to help youth develop the skills necessary to collaborate among peers. By accomplishing group tasks, students learn to listen, trust and support each other, while developing life skills such as communication and collaboration.
- 4 Great Outdoor Activities to Do With Kids This Summer | 4-H These easy activities are designed to be suitable in a COVID conscious environment. Young children play outdoor games, plant a garden, make ice cream, and participate in a scavenger hunt.
- A Bag That Won’t Leak: No matter how many pencils you stab into a plastic bag full of water, it won’t leak.
- Activities from Johns Hopkins School of Engineering – The Center for Educational Outreach provides you with a selection of science, math, engineering and technology activities to learn about from your home!
- Activity Worksheets: Engineering Design Process – This set of worksheets can be used with any engineering challenge. They walk students through the design process by providing space for recording data and consideration of each step. Design a Space Capsule – This activity amplifies four engineering mindset habits of practice: evaluate and iterate, persist and learn from failure, work in teams, and identify as engineers as students work through their engineering journal.
- Art Infused with STEM Learning Activities Makes for a Colorful Time (kindercare.com) This very simple approach to STEM uses outdoor experiences and art to engage young children in math and science discussions. The activities build on curiosity in young children and are very easy to facilitate.
- Bouncy Ball Factory – Youth engineer bouncy balls that meet particular criteria. Using the engineering design process, they develop and test their creations.
- Build a Better Bridge: Test different shapes to see how they affect a bridge’s stability.
- Can a Satellite Drop From the Sky Into Your Backyard?!
- Candle Seesaw: Make a seesaw out of candles and see whether you can make it balance perfectly.
- Candle Seesaw: Make a seesaw out of candles and see whether you can make it balance perfectly.
- Community Engineering – This website provides engineering challenges that are community-based and includes learning modules on topics like school gardening, classroom renovation, and designing an accessible playground.
- Cool Math for Kids – Combine math education and skills with the fun of gaming.
- Create a Wind-Powered Car: Design and build a wind-powered car using materials you have at home.
- Curiosity Camp Activity Sheet: Whale Tail Bookmark
- Design A Crew Module – Use materials that are easy to find at home to build a crew capsule for spaceflight. Practice engineering design process to improve on the original design. Grades 4-8.
- Design a Watercraft – Youth engineering a small boat out of straws and plastic wrap that can hold weight.
- Design Your Own Snazzy Sneaker Youth use an engineering design process to design a shoe that meets design requirements they specify.
- DIY Model Satellite
- EiE Storybooks – Every Engineering is Elementary (EiE) unit starts with a storybook that sets the context for the hands-on engineering design challenge. This set includes 20 engaging storybooks about a child who solves a real-world problem through engineering. EiE storybooks integrate literacy and social studies with your engineering and science lessons—and help students understand how STEM subjects are relevant to their lives.
- Engineer a Stringed Instrument – This activity amplifies three engineering mindset habits of practice: balancing criteria and constraints, apply science and math, and envisioning multiple solutions as students work their engineering journal.
- Engineering a Flotation Device – Youth use the engineering design process to design a device that uses simple chemical reactions to create a floatable device for a cell phone.
- Engineering Solutions to Freshwater Problems – In this activity, students are introduced to six freshwater supply problems in various locations around the world. Students brainstorm their own ideas for solving each problem and then learn about the specific solutions that engineers have proposed.
- Flip That Flop! Turning Mistakes Into Opportunities – In this activity, students use a flip-flop template to write a description of a time they failed or made a mistake (the flop) and how they flipped that flop into an opportunity.
- Fun Math Games for Kids – Math Blaster – Save the universe as you learn math skills. This free online game engages kids in purposeful, other world (as opposed to “real world”) math. Fun to play alone or with others.
- Fun-A-Day Engineering Activities – Engineering activities for kids include printable instructions and videos.
- Get it Write! – Youth engineering a writing device (pen) using everyday materials. They think about both the (water soluble) “ink” and the delivery mechanism.
- Halloween House: Carve a pumpkin into a warm and inviting mini-home.
- How Can Coding Save Orca Whales?
- Introduction to the Engineering Design Process – This activity is an introductory lesson that asks students to design a marshmallow tower. Students are introduced to the engineering design process and compare it to the process they used to create their marshmallow tower.
- K-5 STEM Team students participate in a simple team building activity. Using one finger each, students must work together to lift and stack plastic cups. The task requires concentration and communication and serves as a fun and rewarding introduction to the value of teamwork.
- Keep Your Cool! Design Your Own Cooler Challenge – Youth design a cooler that will keep a bottle of water cool using the engineering design process. They test their prototype and graph their results to determine the effectiveness of the solution.
- Landing Humans on the Moon Educator Guide – These easy to do activities for grades K-8 use engineering design processes to problem-solve solutions for survival on the moon.
- Make a Paper Helicopter: Rotational power meets gravity with this easy craft and engineering project.
- Materials and Manufacturing – In this activity based on the story of the three little pigs, students examine the properties, limitations, and durability of a variety of materials, then evaluate which of the materials would be best for building a model house.
- NASA’s Favorite House Plants for Space Stations and You – The Grow Network : The Grow Network – Select a plant to grow and keep a record of its change over time. Design a flowerpot for space—what shape works best? How deep does it need to be? What do scientists need to consider to grow plants in space?
- Paper Table – Youth engineer a table from a newspaper that is at least 8″ high and strong enough to hold a book.
- Pom Pom Launcher Activity Sheet with All About Nuclear Engineering: What it’s Really Like to be a Nuclear Engineer video featuring IF/THEN Ambassador and nuclear engineer, Dr. Ciara Sivels. This is one of many activity sheets and accompanying videos that can be found on the IF/THEN Collection. These activity sheets and videos are designed to be plug and play for programs.
- Recycled Plant Paper activity sheet with the I’m a Kid…Does Climate Change Affect Me? video featuring IF/THEN Ambassador and climate scientist Kimberly Miner. This is one of many activity sheets and accompanying videos that can be found on the IF/THEN Collection. These activity sheets and videos are designed to be plug and play for programs.
- Science Fair Project Ideas – School is starting again! Are you stuck looking for a science fair project? Over 1000 ideas and activities are listed. And, there’s links to STEM careers associated with the projects!
- SciGirls | PBS LearningMedia – Videos document girls exploring engineering activities. Each episode features a different engaging activity.
- Solar Print Fabric
- STEAMsational – Fun engineering and construction activities for kids and families. Kids make the connection between STEM and art.
- Straw Towers to the Moon – Let your kids’ imaginations run wild. Build the biggest tower, or the best balanced, or the most attractive…change the criteria to change the design. Grades K-8.
- Take Flight – Using everyday materials, youth engineer a glider that can fly straight for 15 feet.
- Team Building for STEM Challenges – In this team building activity, youth work together to lift an object by using a set of strings attached to a center ring. Each student grabs a few strings and must work together to raise the item in the center. The task requires concentration and communication and introduces the value of teamwork. Student Activity: Free activity sheet and accompanying video from GoldieBlox’s Curiosity Camp series.
- Team Building for STEM Challenges In this team building activity, youth work together to lift an object by using a set of strings attached to a center ring. Each student grabs a few strings and must work together to raise the item in the center. The task requires concentration and communication and introduces the value of teamwork.
- The Property of Materials and Their Everyday Uses – This resource provides a number of simple tests that educators can perform with young learners to investigate material properties.
- Time for Design – In this lesson, students are introduced to the engineering design process, focusing on the concept of brainstorming design alternatives. Students come to realize that they can be engineers and use the design process themselves to create tomorrow’s innovations.
- Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge – This lesson introduces youth to the engineering design process as youth work in teams to design both a product and process to safely remove “toxic” popcorn and save the city.
- Upcycled Suspension Bridge: Build a model of your favorite suspension bridge from things found around the house.
