100th Day of School Activities and STEM Centers

Celebrate the 100th day of school with 8 STEM challenges!

The perfect resource for elementary classrooms, school-wide STEM nights, and STEM clubs. It combines the celebration of the 100th day of school with the excitement of STEM education, fostering critical thinking, art, engineering, problem-solving, and creativity.

Why STEAM centers?

STEM centers expose students to a lot of different ideas, materials, and challenges in a short amount of time. These challenges keep the attention of students and allow them to pick up those valuable STEM skills little by little as they work through each challenge.

STEAM centers also give students the flexibility to work independently or with a partner or small group.

How to use STEAM Centers:

Each center can be used as a whole class STEAM challenge or you may choose the activities you want students to complete and have them rotate through the activities as centers. If you are doing these challenges as centers we recommend students work for 10-15 minutes per center.

Includes:

• Teacher Instructions
• Center Place cards for tables
• STEM Worksheets
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Examples for each activity
• 8 STEM challenges
• NGSS Standards
• Common Core Standards
• TEKs Standards

Center 1: 100 Dots Pixel Art

Suggested Materials:

• 100 dots pixel art printables
• dot markers

Center 2: NOT a Hundred

Suggested Materials:

• NOT a hundred printables and/or die-cut 100
• glue
• pencils
• construction paper
• colored pencils, crayons, markers

Center 3: Build a Hundred

Suggested Materials:

• LEGO, pattern blocks, Magna-Tiles, or other makerspace non-consumables

Center 4: Float a Hundred

Suggested Materials:

• aluminum foil
• straws
• tape
• 100 gram weight or 100 large paperclips

Center 5: Stack a Hundred

Suggested Materials:

• 100 plastic cups
• number printables
• tape

Center 6: 100 Domino Dash

Suggested Materials:

• 100 dominoes

Center 7: Hundred Centimeter Tower

Suggested Materials:

• meter stick
• popsicle sticks
• clothespins

Center 8: 100th Day Headpiece

Suggested Materials:

• headpiece printable
• stickers, stamps, or other embellishments
• stapler
• tape
• colored pencils, crayons, markers