End of the Year Countdown to Summer – Easy Science Experiments – STEAM Challenge
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Hoping to keep your students engaged as count down to the last days of the school year? Use this 10 day countdown of STEAM challenges to keep your students happy during the last two weeks of the school year! Your elementary students are going to love these fun and engaging science experiments. This is the perfect way to keep students engaged, fill the time of the last days of school, and practice STEAM skills. All of these science experiments use common household items which makes them easy to prepare for. You’ll complete one challenge per day for the last ten days of school! Each experiment includes teacher tips, activity directions, and a recording sheet so students can record their observations.
Hi, I'm Chloe! I taught 3rd–5th grade math for 11 years, and every resource in this shop was built for real classrooms: low prep, high engagement, and a whole lot of sneaky learning.
Hoping to keep your students engaged as count down to the last days of the school year? Use this 10 day countdown of STEAM challenges to keep your students happy during the last two weeks of the school year! Your elementary students are going to love these fun and engaging science experiments. This is the perfect way to keep students engaged, fill the time of the last days of school, and practice STEAM skills. All of these science experiments use common household items which makes them easy to prepare for. You’ll complete one challenge per day for the last ten days of school! Each experiment includes teacher tips, activity directions, and a recording sheet so students can record their observations.
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*There are not countdown days written on the recording sheet. You don’t have to do them in order or just for the end of the school year. Feel free to use all year long and/or change the number of items to fit your needs.
Countdown to Summer STEAM Challenges includes:
- Materials Page
- Example Pictures
- Teacher Tips
- 10 Student Recording Sheets (includes directions)
The 10 Day Countdown STEM Activities are:
- 10 Days Left: Using ten cups and ten popsicle sticks, create the tallest structure
- 9 Days Left: Using nine sheets of foil, create a boat that will hold the most amount of weight
- 8 Days Left: Using eight straws, a marble, glue, and a sheet of paper, create a maze
- 7 Days Left: Using seven feet of string, one balloon, and tape, create a balloon rocket
- 6 Days Left: Using six popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and a spoon, create a catapult that launches the farthest
- 5 Days Left: Using five sheets of paper, create a structure that will support the weight of textbooks
- 4 Days Left: Using four paper plates, tape, and a marble, create a roller coaster
- 3 Days Left: Using three sheets of paper and tape, create the longest paper chain
- 2 Days Left: Using two sheets of paper and tape, create the longest paper chain
- 1 Day Left: Using one container of Play-Doh, create model of your favorite memory.
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Jessica M. –
This is helping my students stay engaged. Thank you!
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Theresa K. –
The creativity my students have shown is amazing! We will continue next week. Thank you!
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C M –
This is a great activity (10 days worth!) to do as we wind down our school year! The students love the hands-on activities!
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Mary A. –
The activities were a big hit! I like that the needed materials were items that I already had or could purchase easily!
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Courtney B. –
Gave me some great ideas to countdown until the end of the year!
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Audra S –
This was a great addition to our end of the year activities in the classroom.
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Samantha T. –
We used this resource after state testing. I set the activities up as stations (5 a day) and students rotated between them the first two days. After that, they were able to choose their favorites to attempt again.
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Chloe Campbell Education –
I love that idea! Thank you for sharing it! 🙂
Jillian Amezquita –
My students really enjoyed this STEM countdown to summer! Very fun and engaging!
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Mrs. G’s Teacher Resources –
These were so simple and engaging for our end of the year countdown! I will definitely use them again!
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Jill C. –
Awesome!
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Jennifer C. –
Kids LOVED these activities and it was an amazing way to end the school year )
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Kimberly G. –
Great resource for the last weeks of school!
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Catherine E. –
Thank you!
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Carly M. –
These activities were so much fun! They added excitement and creativity to the end of the year. I will use these again!
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Lurie H. –
My students loved the hands on review of their Science standards.
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Keri M. –
These challenges are fantastic for these hectic, end-of-the year days! These can be thrown together in a very few minutes and will take up the entire class period. My classes have had a great time with the challenges and it has kept them entertained and educated! Thanks for such an easy-to-use resource!
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Myia B. –
Students had a blast and stayed on task the last full week of school. Activities use items commonly found in classrooms.
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Sharon Abrassart –
My students LOVED this activity. They couldn’t wait each day to find out what their next science activity would be!!!
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Megan H. –
Great resource. My students had a lot of fun with it at the end of the year. Thanks!
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Agriculture with Mrs Yearry –
This was perfect for my kinder through 5th grade STEM Lab!
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Jacquelyn H. –
Loved using this resource for some end of the school year fun!
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karen K. –
I was not able to use all of the activities this year, but the ones I did were easy to incorporate and the kids liked them. Will definitely do again next year.
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Wendy D. –
This was an amazing resource to use for the summer program. Thank you so very much!
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Elena W. –
Great resources to end the year! Students enjoyed the different activities.
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Amanda V. –
I used this for our end of the school year activities. The activities are easy to do and keeps the students engaged. The students really enjoyed participating in these activities!
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Brittany T. –
Easy and fun resource for the end of the school year!
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Taylor Hutchins –
My fourth grade team used this for fillers for the end of the year when we had covered all science standards. The kids really loved the variety of hands on activities and getting to work as a team!
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Nicola M. –
Such a fun hands-on way to end the year! My students were very engaged with these end of year tasks, and all the materials were easy to find. Thank you!
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Tracey J. –
These activities were helpful during the last days of school. Easy to prepare and implement.
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Meagan H. –
My students really loved finding out the different activities each day!
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Jennifer J. –
End of the school year is hard enough, but this resource was a life saver! Kids were engaged and enjoyed each different activity!
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Laura Rivera –
Great end of year activity! My students loved it!
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Jennifer C. –
Wonderful resource that I will use year after year with my first graders!!
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Christina L. –
My students and I loved this resource. It is perfect for the end of the year. It is low prep and many of the materials required are already in your classrooms. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Hanna D. –
At the end of the year, it is so hard to find things that will keep my kiddos engaged. These activities have been perfect for helping us get through the last few days before summer and still learning. My kids have been enjoying the hands on activities and have been making some great memories.
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Joyfully Simplistic –
I can’t get too many STEM activities. Thank you.
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Teaching for Change –
My students loved these STEM challenges! We used them in our last week of school to help make the time go a bit quicker while still doing something beneficial!
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Katie K. –
We had a great time using these stem activities to end off our school year. Simple with very little supplies. Thanks!
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Teaching With Chelsi –
This is exactly what I was looking for to use with my students!
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Magdalena M. –
My students loved this resource. It was very easy to use and very little need of reexplaining. Students were self-directed and enjoyed every bit of it. Activities were very interactive and kept the class engaged every single day.
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Cori W. –
Fun and engaging way to keep kids learning during the end of the year craziness.
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Chris C. –
My students loved this resource! It is something that I will continue to use over and over!
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Evelyn G. –
This countdown made the students super excited about the last days of school. I enjoyed seeing their facing excited and them leaving for the summer on a great ending!
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Megan O. –
this was a great addition to the last week of school. the students loved the different activities and it kept them engaged.
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The Old Barn Teaching Co –
This was a great resource. Thank you for all the hard work.
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Elizabeth O. –
I didn’t use all of the experiments, but I used about half of them. The kids LOVED the activities for the end of the year!!!
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Melissa J. –
This was such a fun way to end the school year! It was easy to use and my students loved it!
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Mrs. Massung –
Such a fun and easy end of year activity! The kids really enjoyed it!
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Tamra M. –
My students loved using this resource. Highly engaging! We had so much fun ending our school year with this.
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Amy Wiley –
It is great! My students enjoyed the different options for experiments. Perfect way to start or end a year!
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Aubrey H. –
My students enjoyed these STEM activities to wind down the school year.
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Belle of Teaching –
This made the end of year so much fun and created lots of memories. Thank you for your hard work!
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Haley Dodson –
Fun activity to do with students at the end of the year after testing.
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Destinee Y. –
Excellent Product, and I will continue to use this in my classroom!
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Misty G. –
Excellent Resource!
This product was exactly what I needed for my 5th grade classroom. The materials were clearly organized and easy to use.
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Bethanie S. –
This resource was great for filling the end of year time!
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Tina T. –
This was such a fun idea and my students loved it! So engaging and interactive!
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Nicole Hubbell –
Mystudents loved these activities. I love the reflection sheet part of it to help them stay accountable for the work. These were very engaging with simple inexpensive materials. Thank you!!
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Jessica Evans –
My students loved these. They started to ask if we were doing a STEM challenge when they arrived the last few days of school.
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Lauren H. –
enjoyed using this during my 5th grade class. It was really helpful to my students!
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Kaitlyn B. –
This resource was great! My students loved it and I cannot wait to use it again!
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Ashley B. –
This was a good resource for my 3rd grade classroom.
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Rosa R. –
This activity is perfect for the end of the last week of school!
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Maria Espinoza –
My students really enjoyed the countdown and the activities that had to be done for each day as we counted down to the end of the school year.
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Alicia L. –
I was lost on what to do for the end of the year. We were testing pretty much up until the last few days and I needed something to give my kids some excitement about school. This worked. They loved it! I will definitely be doing this every year. It was great to keep them busy and off technology while still working on those social skills.
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Hayden H. –
These were perfect to use! My students enjoyed being creative. It was really good that my students had to learn to fail before they could succeed.
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Lauren C. –
This was a fun way to end the year! My students loved all of the activities!
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Leslie M. –
I loved the idea of this activity. My students had so much fun with the activities. I liked how easy it was to set up.
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thesuddenteacher –
I loved how this outlined a countdown for my students
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Loraine Sanchez –
I did some of the activities with my class last year and they had so much fun! I look forward to doing them again this year!
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Shannon G. –
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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Meghan M. –
This was such a fun 10 days with my students! The activities were a great team builder and gave the students the chance to work together!
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Asa M. –
My students love hands on, engaging activities and these were perfect when end of year testing was taking place!
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melinda M. –
This activity saved my sanity at the end of the year. The kids were very engaged and they learned a lot. The prep for most of the activities was very easy and used things i all ready had laying around the classroom
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Ani H. –
I was super scrambling and stressed out with everything I had to do to move out of state and this resource was AWESOME! I built it up the week before and the kids go to see their science buckets get filled out and labeled and they were SOOO excited to get to do them! They loved each one and the ease on this struggling teacher’s brain was VERY welcomed!
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Fallon H. –
My students enjoyed doing these Challenges. It made our last few days together so much fun!
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Learning with Ms Conyers –
My students and I had a blast engaging in these fun, easy to set-up STEM activities. What a great way to end the school year!
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Richa B. –
These STEM challenges are the perfect way to keep students excited and engaged during the last days of school. Fun, hands-on, and educational!
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Bookish Play Kids –
Easy supplies, had most in my closet, and then I cut the strips and put them into balloons and we popped a balloon each day to count down doing the projects. The kids loved it!
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Heather F. –
These were perfect for the last ten days of school. The kids absolutely loved doing these! Can’t wait to use them again this year.
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Cynthia Giron –
We did not get to all of them but we had fun with the activities we did and I loved the ideas
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Rosa A. –
The way we structured our summer school enrichment; this resource was perfect. I basically used the same lessons for two different groups.
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Laura Pawlak –
Students were very engaged! I Love your products!
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Sherry L. –
Just what the teacher needs to survive the last days…and makes the students happy!
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Diane M. –
These were perfect for the end of the year wiggles in 4th grade! Kids were totally engaged and learning STEM. And such a great price! Thank you!
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Kailyn Kloster –
These activities brought some excitement to to end of year in my classroom. The students were engaged and loved doing a new activity each day to count down the last few days of school
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Kaitlyn M. –
This was a great way to end the year and have students engaged and focused.
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Megan W. –
This is an easy-to-use resource to help get through the end of the year, or even introduce STEM activities at the beginning. Thank you!
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Katie F. –
clean and easy to use, thank you for a great resource!
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Keely H. –
This is a very fun and engaging way to end out the year!!
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Lindsay P. –
My students were so excited to see what new activity they were doing each day! It made the end of the year so much fun!
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Heather C. –
This is great ideas to use or not based on your class. I love that there is a sheet for them that goes with each activity, and that the resources needed aren’t expensive.
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sonia M. –
Every year I do a makeshift STEM session for the last few weeks of school and this worked perfectly for minimum prepping, just need to pull out the bucket of miscellaneous supplies!
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Deana S. –
I desperately needed something to keep my kids busy after their STAAR and these worked out perfectly as it aligned with our last unit!!
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Kym W. –
My students loved working through these STEM challenges the last few days of school! It challenged them in the best way.
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Danielle Moniz –
This saved me so much planning time figuring out what to do at the end of the year!
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Caroline C. –
Very engaging for students and easy setup and follow for me while juggling end of year things
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Nicole J. –
I have used this resource two years in a row now and it never fails to disappoint. Students love the activities and they all use materials you already have in your classroom.
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Jessica S. –
These activities were soo fun to do at the end of year!! My students LOVED them!
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Sandy Mills –
It was exactly what I was looking for to support my students.
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Jennifer A. –
My students loved these activities! We used them between provincial testing, and it was a great break!
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Pieper C. –
My students loved these activities. They were easy to implement and prepare for.
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Dana Mills –
Thank you for creating this resource. By the end of the year my students were done. Your STEM challenges helped us stay engaged through the end of the school year.
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Joel Ann M. –
My 5th grade students enjoyed some of the activities but I think it would be better suited for my grade level as a beginning of the year cooperative activity.
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Katelyn C. –
These steam activities were a great way to celebrate the end of the year. My students couldn’t wait to see what came next.
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Amber S. –
Thank you for a great resource for the end of the school year! The excitement these bring is so fun!
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Tammy Crannie –
This was a fun way to end the year and keep students engaged
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Theresa L. –
Great ideas for those final days when you need something that will get and keep attention but still be on topic.
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Sarah M. –
Did several of these in my STEM class to keep kids engaged and occupied at the end fo the year
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CelticTeacher –
Easy to use! Wonderful that it saves me me creation time!
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