Express your creativity!

$19.50

This summer camp lesson plan is centered around STEM/STEAM with hands-on, creative building activities and experiments to engage school-age learners. This summer camp unit offers five 6-hour lesson plans. They feature suggestions for hands-on activities, outdoor play, and social-emotional learning. Activities are standards-aligned to ensure quality content that helps children gain knowledge and prepare to move forward in grade school.

About our lesson plans:

  • Developed and tested by a team of experienced, certified educators

  • Immediate PDF download upon purchase with unlimited use

  • Activity pages, extension activities, and additional resources included at no cost

  • Developmentally appropriate

  • Printable format that is also digital friendly with links and QR codes embedded in the lesson plans

Camp Outline:

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Simple machines
  • DIY robot hand
  • Let’s get moving – Straddleball
  • Newspaper forts
  • Hands-on activity- Make a marble run
  • Social-emotional learning – Group agreements
  • Big wheels
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Genetic traits
  • What traits do you have?
  • Let’s get moving – Spy tag
  • Hands-on activity – Make a DNA model
  • Strawberry DNA extraction
  • Social-emotional learning – One and only me!
  • Traits BINGO
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion – Electricity and magnetism
  • Falling up
  • Let’s get moving – Keepers of the castle
  • Make lightening with an electrophorus
  • Hands-on activity – Electrolysis
  • Social-emotional learning – This may shock you
  • Iron for breakfast?
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity
  • Class discussion- Chemistry and Physics
  • Create a rainbow
  • Let’s get moving – Ice cream cone relay
  • Hands-on activity – Bottle rocket
  • Ice cream in a bag
  • Social-emotional learning – Reactions to stress
  • Geometric bubble shapes
  • Reflection

  • Arrival activity-
  • Class discussion – UV rays
  • Test your sunscreen
  • Let’s get moving – Beach ball games
  • Make a UV detector
  • Hands-on activity – Solar updraft tower
  • Social-emotional learning – After every storm comes a rainbow
  • Cloud dough
  • Reflection