Valentine's Day STEM Centers Valentine's Cards, Creativity, Hearts, Party

Get ready for the ultimate Valentine's Day party full of STEM activities and lessons!

Learn about the heart, card making, coding, and more! Build domino hearts, make pattern block hearts, complete creativity challenges, use a scale to measure candy, and more!

The perfect resource for elementary classrooms, school-wide STEM nights, STEM clubs, and Valentine's Day parties!

Why STEAM centers?

STEAM 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. Look through the preview to see all of the STEAM centers.

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.

This resource includes 12 Valentine's Day STEAM centers. You can use just a few or all of them depending on your time. The resource can be used over several days or for an entire afternoon of STEAM!

Includes:

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

Center 1: Heart Engineering

Suggested Materials:

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

Center 2: Binary Coding Bracelet

Suggested Materials:

• binary coding key printables
• binary coding recording page
• pencils
• pipe cleaners
• 2 colors of beads
• dishes for the beads

Center 3: Chain of Hearts

Suggested Materials:

• paper
• scissors
• stapler or tape

Center 4: Crayon Resist Art Studio

Suggested Materials:

• paper
• white crayon
• watercolors
• brushes
• cup of water

Center 5: Love Boat Engineering

Suggested Materials:

• aluminum foil
• straws
• tape
• Valentine heart counters or other available counters for boat weight

Center 6: Heart Domino Chain Reaction

Suggested Materials:

• dominoes

Center 7: Valentine’s Day Card Corner

Suggested Materials:

• paper or printable cards
• crayons/markers/color sticks
• glue or tape

Center 8: Heart Weight Comparison Lab

Suggested Materials:

• balance
• Valentine hearts (conversation hearts or heart counters)
• printable cards
• pencils, erasers, crayons, paper clips, glue sticks, scissors, binder clips, LEGO bricks, index cards, plastic spoons, ping pong balls, clothespins

Center 9: Heart Anatomy Studio

Suggested Materials:

• heart printables (laminated or in page protectors)
• play dough

Center 10: Creativity Quest

Suggested Materials:

• creativity printables
• crayons/markers/color sticks

Center 11: Love Bug Dice Workshop

Suggested Materials:

• love bug body printables
• dice
• pencils
• crayons/markers/color sticks
• love bug body parts pages

Center 12: Heart Tower Engineering

Suggested Materials:

• popsicle sticks
• Valentine hearts (conversation hearts or wooden hearts)