STEM Education. STEM Competition.

STEM Playground.

Attention Baltimore Educators!

We’re getting back to our roots.  

 

In 2011, STEM Playground started as a pilot program for 10 local schools in the Baltimore area.

Since then, we’ve grown to over 1100 schools worldwide, doubled our available activities, and improved our online experience.

But our donors want to see us return to promoting STEM Playground in the Baltimore area.  

This means we want you!

When you register, you get immediate access to:

  • 22 STEM challenges designed to encourage creativity and teamwork
  • Lessons aligned to both Common Core and Next Gen Science Standards
  • Inexpensive STEM activities for your classroom or after-school program

Registration is simple.  And best of all, STEM Playground will always be free!

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What We Do

 

Engaging Contests

Download our activities to conduct with your students and upload the results to compare your class’s scores to the scores of classes globally.

Aligned Content

Our activities include pertinent supplemental curriculum material that is aligned to National Standards.

Emphasis on Team

Your assessment scores are greatly affected by how well the team members work together, instilling in your students the value of teamwork.

Where We Are

STEM Playground began as a small pilot program for 10 schools but has grown over 500% in the last two years.

See our map to find participating schools around the world! 

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Explore Our Activities

Tables and Ladders!

*PREMIUM*

Know Your Metrics!

*PREMIUM*

Learn the metrics in a fun way and pave a strong foundation for future classes!
First in Flight

*FREE*

Students will make a paper airplane and test its flight time.
Bloated Balloon

*FREE*

Students use a balloon, bottle, water, and alka seltzer to see who can create the largest balloon!
Digestion Race

*FREE*

The goal of this activity is to make the students understand the parts, size, and function of these intestines and work together to build their own intestinal system.
Get To The Chopper!

*FREE*

Teams will make a paper helicopter and test its flight time, learning essential mathematics and engineering skills.
Riding on Air

*FREE*

Students will build and test a hovercraft.

How We Align to Standards

STEM Playground designed its STEM activities and supporting curriculum material around you and your students, NOT Common Core standards.  However, we understand the need for those of you in Common Core-participating states to meet English Language Arts and Math standards, even as you teach science.

So STEM Playground asked educational publisher Longbourn Editorial to correlate our current curriculum material to both Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.

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How Our Competition Works

STEM Playground’s activities are designed to be completed by teams of two students and will have measurable results which you can compare with other classes globally, nationally, or even within your own community or school.

While you can compare results from just one activity, you can also compete in the cumulative League Challenge by completing all 12 designated League Challenge activities.

Our Mission

STEM Playground prepares elementary students for team-based STEM competition through  activities designed to create excitement about STEM at an early age while assessing and developing the character traits required for effective collaboration.  Through our online virtual STEM tournament, teachers conduct simple, inexpensive science-based activities with their two-student teams, then upload their scores to compare with other teams and classes around the globe. 

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