Back to School STEM Bundle: 23 Icebreaker Teamwork Activities

lesson overview

Need a back-to-school icebreaker that gets students moving, communicating, and building? Want to introduce STEM to your classroom? Here are 23 of our favorite basic STEM challenges that are low-cost and low prep for any classroom!

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.

**GROWING Bundle: Save 20% off individual products**

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. Handouts are provided to guide students through the engineering design process.

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

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

6. STEM Scavenger Hunt Game

Need to pay with invoice? Contact us here.