Makerspace projects middle school

Encourage a love of STEM by creating a maker space at school! These fun and flexible areas can help students develop creative and analytical thinking skills.

If you have middle school aged students, these STEM projects for middle school will be great additions to your collection of STEAM activities for kids.

Try one of these free engineering design challenges and engineering projects for high school students to use the engineering design process.

The engineering design process is a series of steps used by engineers and designers to come up with products.

This Week in the Classroom I'm going to explore a variety of design challenges that I use in my classroom. I designed each of these projects to prompt students to explore the engineering design process, learn basic scientific concepts, such as forces and loads on structures, learn executive functioning and soft skills, and develop presentation…

In this engineering lesson plan, your students will build a volleyball machine that can launch a ping pong ball back and forth over a net.

Build a device with paper, tape, string, and paper clips to pick up a ping pong ball from a distance in this fun engineering lesson plan!

Teacher friends, It’s typical for students to begin losing focus in the classroom as the end of the school year is approaching. Real learning does not have to go out the window just yet, you just have to mask it such a way where it doesn’t quite seem like learning to students… but in fact, still is! Do your

Elevate your middle school STEM projects. You'll ignite curiosity, foster creativity, and engage students in real-world challenges.

Above, left: a robotic hand from the ScienceBuddies.org project Grasping With Straws. Above, top middle: Muscles of the Hand and Wrist, by Elisa Shorn, circa 1900, shared with a Creative Commons License by Heidelberg University. Above, top right: a robotic flower from the Curiosity Machine project Build a Blooming Flower. Above, bottom right: Hibiscus at […]