Please email valariea@gordonstate.edu to schedule a Family Night. A list of available kits in available below for teachers to choose and sign up to use for the event. All materials will be brought to the school prior to the event and teachers will be required to set up the activities and run the stations. Gordon GYSTC staff will also bring the materials to the school on the afternoon of the event and set up the stations if previously notified and scheduled.
STEM Day/Family STEM Night Activity Catalog
| K | SKP2.a | BristleBots | Build and race a robot built on the head of a toothbrush |
| K | SKP1.c | Cartesian Diver | Investigate how compression and changes in density cause the Cartesian diver to mysteriously move up and down. |
| K | SKP2.a & b, MGSEK.CC.1 | Parachuting Spiders | Understand how air resistance affects the motion of an object. |
| K | MGSEK.G.1, MGSEK.G.2, MGSEK.G.6 | Tangrams | Use problem-solving to assemble a set of tangrams to create various sea creatures. |
| 1st | S1L1.a & b | Blooming Flowers | Using paper and water, model how plants move water through their tissues. |
| 1st | S1L1.a | Design a Plant | Understand the parts of a plant. |
| 1st | S1P1.d | Make a Kazoo | Demonstrate a way to make sound. |
| 1st | S1P1.d & e | Screaming Balloons | Create a device that can project an alarm over quite a distance. |
| 1st | S1P1.d | Soda Bottle Sounds* | Understand that vibrations cause sound, and as the speed of vibrations changes, the sound will change. *Not available virtually |
| 1st | S1P1.d | Sound Waves: How Does Sound Travel? | Understand that vibrations cause sound, and that they can move through objects. |
| 1st | MGSE1.G.2 | Tangrams | Use problem-solving to assemble a set of tangrams to create various sea creatures. |
| 1st | S1P1.d | Vibrating Rulers | Discover that vibrating material will produce a sound, and that sound can make materials vibrate. |
| 2nd | S2P2.a | 100 Cup Challenge | Stack and balance 100 cups without any force causing it to fall. |
| 2nd | S2P2.a & b | Bristle Bots | Build and race a robot built on the head of a toothbrush. |
| 2nd | S2P1.a | Bubble Maker | Learn what happens when liquids and gases mix by constructing a bubble blower. |
| 2nd | S2L1.c | Build a Pollinator | Engage in how the pollination process works by building a pollinator. |
| 2nd | MGSE2.OA.1 | More and Less | Practice fluency with addition and subtraction. |
| 2nd | MGSE2.MD.1 | Pipe Cleaner Challenge | Work together to develop the tallest "free-standing" structure to support the weight of a ping pong ball. |
| 2nd | S2P2.a, b, & c | Puff the Stuff | Predict and experiment with moving objects when air is blown. |
| 2nd | S2P1.a | Science or Magic | Keep a paper towel dry by using the properties of matter. |
| 2nd | MGSE2.MD.1 | Straw Towers | Build the tallest straw tower using only straws and tile spacers. |
| 2nd | S2P1.a & b | Surface Tension of Water | Explore the surface tension of water by adding paper clips to a cup of water. |
| 2nd | S2P2.a | Toy Inventor | Design and create a toy that uses either a push or pull motion. |
| 2nd | S2P2.a | Water Spritzer | Spray water using unbalanced forces. |
| 3rd | MGSE3.MD.4 | Paper Chain | Creating the longest paper chain using only one piece of paper. |
| 3rd | S3P1.a | Spiraling Snake | Experiment with convection currents. |
| 3rd | S3P1 | Too Hot to Handle | Investigate conductors and insulators. |
| 3rd | S3L2.a & b | What’s a Watershed? | Learn the importance of watersheds by modeling. |
| 4th | S4P3.a | Balance the Pencil | Using clothespins and pipe cleaners, balance a pencil vertically on a craft stick. |
| 4th | S4P3.a & b | Balancing Forces – Flying Hoop Planes | Experiment with airflow over an airplane and observe it fly. |
| 4th | S4P3.a | Bristlebots | Build and race a robot built on the head of a toothbrush. |
| 4th | S4P3.a & b | Catapulting Cups | Explore Bernoulli’s Principle and lift a cup using only your breath. |
| 4th | S4P3.a | Floating Paper Clip | Explore the surface tension of the water. |
| 4th | S4E1.a & b | Glowing Constellations | Create a glow-in-the-dark constellation. |
| 4th | S4P3.a & b | Hoopster | Explore Bernoulli’s Principle while constructing and flying an airplane without wings. |
| 4th | S4P2.a & b | Screaming Balloons | Create a device that can project an alarm over quite a distance. |
| 4th | S4P2.a | Soda Bottle Sounds* | Understand that vibrations cause sound, and as the speed of the vibrations changes, the sound will change. *Not available virtually |
| 4th | S4E1.a & b | Solar System Scavenger Hunt | Observe the difference between planets and stars and compare and contrast the technological advances that have changed the information we have. |
| 4th | S4P2.a & b | Sound Waves: How Does Sound Travel? | Understand that vibrations cause sound and that they move through objects. |
| 4th | S4P2.a & b | Straw Whistle | Learn about sound by constructing and playing a whistle. |
| 4th | S4P2.a | Vibrating Ruler | Discover that vibrating material will produce a sound, and that sound can make material vibrate. |
| 4th | S4P3.a & b | Water Spritzer | Spray water using unbalanced forces. |
| 4th | S4E3.b | What’s a Watershed? | Learn the importance of watersheds by modeling. |
| 5th | S5P1.c | Chemical Reaction Relay | Use chemical reactions to blow up a balloon. |
| 5th | S5P1.a | Colorful Chromatography* | Demonstrates the property of water and liquids that use capillary action. *Not available virtually |
| 5th | S5P2.b | Complete & Incomplete Circuits | Observe and work with circuits and identify the needed parts. |
| 5th | S5P1.a, b, & c | Flying Rocket Eggs* | Create a rocket. *Not available virtually |
| 5th | S5L1 | Jelly Belly Identification | Learn how to use a dichotomous key for classification. |
| 5th | S5P3.b | Magnetic Slime | Create slime with magnetic properties. |
| 5th | MGSE5.OA.1 | Order of Operations Game | Use a deck of playing cards to employ algebraic thinking and hone mental math skills. |
| 5th | S5E1.a & b | Sand Shake* | Understanding the forces and materials that shape the surface of Earth to produce landforms such as sand dunes. *Not available virtually |
| 5th | S5P2.a | Static Electricity Slime | Learn about static electricity by making a ‘slime’ that is attracted to a negatively charged balloon. |
| 5th | S5P2.a | Static Electricity UFO | Learn about static electricity by making a negatively charged ‘Unidentified Flying Object’ that is levitated by a negatively charged balloon. |
| 5th | S5P.1c | What’s the Matter? | Observe the three stages of matter through a chemical change. |
| 6th | S6E5.e | Erosion Rates* | Investigate erosion rates of different Earth materials (waves, wind, water, and glaciers). *Not available virtually |
| 6th | S6E5.a | Four Layer Liquid | Explore density. |
| 7th | S7L2.c | Build a Brain | Construct a model of the human brain while learning about the different lobes and how they interact with the rest of the body systems to keep us alive. |
| 7th | S7L4.c | Epidemiology Emergency* | Simulate how quickly infectious diseases can be spread and work together to determine patient zero. *Not available virtually |
| 8th | S8P2.b | Bounce! | Observe and measure the effects of elasticity. |
| 8th | S8P2.b, S8P3.b | Bristlebots | Build and race a robot built on the head of a toothbrush. |
| 8th | S8P1.a | Chromatography and Mixtures | Discover how homogeneous mixtures can separate while observing chromatography. |
| 8th | S8P1.a, c, & d | Colorful Chromatography* | Demonstrates the property of water and liquids that use capillary action. *Not available virtually |
| 8th | S8P1.c & d | Floating Paper Clip | Explore the surface tension of the water. |
| 8th | S8P3.b & c | Force and Marshmallow Cannon | Learn how force affects an object by making a marshmallow launcher. |
| 8th | S8P1.b | Four Layer Liquid | Explore density. |
| 8th | S8P3.b, S8P5.a | Hoopster | Explore Bernoulli’s Principle while constructing and flying an airplane without wings. |
| 8th | S8P1.d | It’s a Gas | Experiment with different chemical reactions involving yeast. |