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STEAM Discovery & Learning with Mizzen Education

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Arts in Action

19 Activities

STEAM Discovery & Learning with Mizzen Education

Mizzen Education, Inc.

K - 12

This playlist will ignite curiosity and creativity for grades K-12 with a lineup of specially-curated STEAM activities! From mind-bending math puzzles and hands-on science experiments to coding adventures and imaginative art projects, each activity is a new gateway to discovery!

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Picture this: an imaginative journey where every activity sparks creativity and discovery. Welcome to your Mizzen Education STEAM Discovery + Learning Experience!

Whether your students are exploring the solar system, modeling DNA, designing fantastic footwear, or unlocking the mysteries of chess, they'll stretch their creativity and critical thinking skills!

Join the journey: Dive into these 19 activities now!

Color Collage

Arts in Action, Stories and Perspectives

Color Collage

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children clip and assemble photographs to make collages that represent a color. This fun activity introduces collages as an art form and helps students develop design skills.

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Secret Sentence

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Stories and Perspectives

Secret Sentence

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children must discern matching patterns to link together word cards and reveal a secret message. This activity builds spatial reasoning and cooperative learning skills.

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Balanced Mobile

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Balanced Mobile

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children explore balanced forces as they create a mobile using a hanger and various objects. Then, they test their skills by attaching a second hanger with more objects.

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Meet the Robots

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Meet the Robots

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children draw a picture of a robot, watch a video that shows real-life modern robots, and if feasible, play with a simple robot or robot kit.

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All Aboard! (Grades K-2)

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Arts in Action

All Aboard! (Grades K-2)

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children use creativity, engineering, and planning, as they work in pairs to create trains and buildings for a model railroad.

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Making A Fruit Battery

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Making A Fruit Battery

3 - 5

45 Minutes

In this fun hands-on activity, students make a fruit battery using lemons. They use the battery and other simple materials to build a circuit that powers an LED light. Students then conduct research to discover how their fruit battery and circuit work.

Background Information: The source of energy in the lemon battery is not the lemon itself, but the copper and zinc that make up the electrodes. The zinc is oxidized, meaning they release electrons and become a positively charged zinc ion. Inside the lemon, hydrogen ions are reduced, meaning they accept the electrons and become hydrogen gas. The juices inside the lemon act as an electrolyte to carry electrons from the zinc electrode to the copper electrode, which then transmits the electrons through the wires of the circuit.

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Pattern Exchange

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Stories and Perspectives

Pattern Exchange

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Recognizing patterns is a useful skill in mathematics and in real-world contexts. In this activity, students will generate patterns of their own, and then exchange their work to identify the patterns that others created.

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Make Quicksand

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Make Quicksand

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Student pairs work together to make quicksand out of cornstarch and water. They observe and experiment with the quicksand to analyze its properties. Students then explain in their own words how the quicksand works. This activity builds understanding of solids, liquids, and suspensions.

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Color Collage

Arts in Action, Stories and Perspectives

Color Collage

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children clip and assemble photographs to make collages that represent a color. This fun activity introduces collages as an art form and helps students develop design skills.

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Secret Sentence

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Stories and Perspectives

Secret Sentence

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children must discern matching patterns to link together word cards and reveal a secret message. This activity builds spatial reasoning and cooperative learning skills.

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Balanced Mobile

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Balanced Mobile

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children explore balanced forces as they create a mobile using a hanger and various objects. Then, they test their skills by attaching a second hanger with more objects.

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Meet the Robots

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Meet the Robots

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children draw a picture of a robot, watch a video that shows real-life modern robots, and if feasible, play with a simple robot or robot kit.

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All Aboard! (Grades K-2)

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Arts in Action

All Aboard! (Grades K-2)

K - 2

45 Minutes

Children use creativity, engineering, and planning, as they work in pairs to create trains and buildings for a model railroad.

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Making A Fruit Battery

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Making A Fruit Battery

3 - 5

45 Minutes

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Pattern Exchange

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Stories and Perspectives

Pattern Exchange

3 - 5

45 Minutes

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Make Quicksand

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, The Natural World

Make Quicksand

3 - 5

45 Minutes

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Prototype a Transportation Vehicle/Vessel

STEM Lab: Build, Tinker, Explore, Arts in Action

Prototype a Transportation Vehicle/Vessel

3 - 8

1 Hour

In this activity, students will create prototypes of transportation vehicles. This project was inspired by Rosie Revere, Engineer, written by Andrea Beaty, and illustrated by David Roberts.

Rosie Revere, Engineer is a story of a young girl who dreams of becoming an engineer. We can all take a lesson from Rosie to realize that dreams, professions, skills, and passion are gender neutral. With the help of a wonderful role model in great-great Aunt Rose, Rosie realized that she should celebrate her failures and not hide her inventions! In this story, Rosie engineers a helicopter to make her Great Aunt Rose's dreams come true: to fly. With her inspiration, let's prototype our own transportation vehicle or vessel.

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Open Scenes (Grades 3-5)

Arts in Action, Stories and Perspectives

Open Scenes (Grades 3-5)

3 - 5

45 Minutes

Students work in pairs on an open script, which has dialogue but no indication of characters, plot, or setting. Students write and perform scenes for the open scripts, and the audience guesses what is happening.

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