Fueling Curiosity, Igniting Innovation!

$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 Lightning 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