Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities

LESSON OVERVIEW

Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle!

Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!

Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and engineering design challenge! Also included are more in-depth critical thinking activities that are a great introduction to science and engineering concepts.

BUNDLE DETAILS

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1. 3 Newspaper STEM Challenges: These three newspaper challenges are meant to be completed in a sequence of increasingly more difficult activities. First, the students build a tower, then they create a tower that can hold weight, and finally, they are given a more creative challenge of designing and building a chair to hold a student.

2. 5 Tower STEM Challenges: Towers are a great STEM activity to promote collaboration, teamwork, communication, and problem-solving. This challenge lays a critical foundation for more intensive STEM challenges.

3. 4 STEM Critical Thinking Activities: Students will explore the world around them asking questions with a scientific or engineering mindset.

4. 5 Back to School Teamwork Challenges: 5 team-building activities that set the foundation for the engineering design process.

5. 4 Activities to Build Relationships + Distance Learning Version: Interactive activities that help students reflect on their personal sparks plus a STEM challenge to display student interests.

6. 24 STEM Quick Build Icebreakers: 24 STEM task cards for icebreaker building challenges to promote problem-solving and creativity.

7. 24 STEM Quick Build Icebreakers - Winter version!

8. 2 STEM Words Distance Learning Games: A perfect icebreaker game for distance learning, use these editable STEM scavenger hunt Google slides during a live virtual class or the BINGO game for independent learning.

9. Desk Name Tag / Name Plate Paper Circuit STEM: Using common materials, students design a personalized name tag that includes a switch to turn on a light!

10. Astronaut Training: 4 Cs of STEM: Includes 18 activities around a space exploration theme. Students earn badges for creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking.

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