March Madness Basketball STEM Activity Build a Hoop and Ball Game

Integrate STEM in your classroom with a basketball STEM activity!

Get your students pumped up for basketball and STEM! Design and craft an amazing basketball shooter and goal combined into one cup and ball game!

Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas for creating a basketball shooter and goal. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.

The Engineering Design Process:

Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. They follow the six-step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, and Improve.

Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educational environment in their classroom! This is perfect as a beginning-of-the-year activity or end-of-the-year STEM challenge!

Aligns with NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards).

Includes:

• Example Picture
• Basketball Goal Printable
• Timeline of the history of The Summer Olympic Games
• Reading Passage About Basketball
• Basketball Reading Passage Quiz
• STEM Journal Cover
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Student Instructions
• Basketball STEM Challenge
• Writing Extension
• NGSS Standards for Activity
• TEKS

Material List:

• small cup
• 2 feet of string per student
• ping pong ball or similar sphere (ex. foil ball)
• popsicle stick
• thin cardboard (optional)
• glue or tape
• sharpie or black markers (optional)
• backboard printable (included)