Holidays Around the World STEM Centers and Activities

Celebrate Christmas and Holidays Around the World with STEM! Engage your students in hands-on learning with 9 holiday STEAM centers!

The perfect resource for elementary classrooms, school-wide STEM nights, and STEM clubs. It combines the magic of holidays from all over the world 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
• 9 Holidays Around the World STEM challenges
  • Printables for STEM Activities
  • printable blocks
  • printable Chinese zodiac animal cards
  • ornament printables
  • dreidel symbol printables
  • poinsettia printable
  • star printables
  • kindness coin printable
  • printable Christmas cards
  • Kwanzaa candle printables
• NGSS Standards
• Common Core Standards
• TEKs Standards

Holidays Around the World

• Germany
• Mexico (Las Posadas)
• Israel (Hanukkah)
• India (Diwali)
• Kwanzaa
• Lunar New Year
• Ramadan
• Sweden
• England 

Suggested Materials:

• green plastic cups
• ornament printables (Included)
• scissors
• tape
• dreidel symbol printables (Included)
• square coasters or cardboard
• wooden stylus or pencil
• glue
• manipulatives
• green straws
• yellow pipe cleaners
• poinsettia printable (Included)
• beads (optional)
• hole punch
• rangoli printable designs (Included)
• pattern blocks or printable blocks (Included)
• printable Chinese zodiac animal cards (Included)
• Lego bricks
• play dough
• star printables (Included)
• kindness coin printable (Included)
• printable Christmas cards (Included)
• toilet paper rolls
• candle printables (Included)
• popsicle sticks (optional)
• non-consumables (blocks, Lego, Keva planks)