Project Learning Tree: Halloween STEM Challenges

With Halloween just around the corner, perhaps Project Learning Tree is the place to go to get some class-time, kid-time, party-time, or creativity-time inspiration.  Their moniker: "Make Learning Fun." Isn't that really how it should be? If it's motivating and engaging, it draws kids in, and it is indeed fun.

Well, one way to do that is to offer some Halloween STEM Challenges. The titles alone are inviting (listed by category):

• Bones & Biology:

1. Spider Webs
2. Paper Bats
3. "Bone" Bridge
4. Articulated Hand

• The Great Pumpkin:

1. Pumpkin Investigations
2. 5 Little Pumpkins
3. Candy Pumpkin Catapults
4. Pumpkin Elevators
5. Germinating Pumpkins

• Creepy Chemistry:

1. Candy Corn Chemistry
2. Frankenworms
3. Monster Science Experiment

• Educational Undead:

1. Ghost Rockets
2. Floating Ghosts
3. Mummifying Apples

Image from https://www.plt.org/educator-tips/stem-challenges-halloween