STEM Sports

STEM Sports STEM Sports® provides turnkey K-8 educational curriculum that combines STEM disciplines with sports!

STEM Sports® provides turnkey K-8 curriculum that uses sports as the real-life application to drive STEM-based, hands-on learning in classrooms, after-school programs and camps. Our modules are aligned with NGSS, and/or CCSS and/or National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.

🏈🤫 CLASSROOM CHALLENGE: Can your students run a play without saying a word? Football teams have to transfer information ...
09/08/2026

🏈🤫 CLASSROOM CHALLENGE: Can your students run a play without saying a word? Football teams have to transfer information quickly. But what happens when players can't rely on normal verbal communication? Turn that problem into STEM. Split students into teams and give them four instructions: ➡️ MOVE RIGHT ⬅️ MOVE LEFT ⏸️ STOP 🔄 CHANGE DIRECTION
Now give them the challenge: Create a code that communicates each instruction WITHOUT speaking. They might use: ✋ Hand signals 🟦 Colors 🔢 Numbers 🧍 Body movements 🚩 Symbols
Then put the system to the test. Can another student correctly decode all four messages? Now introduce interference or a new constraint. What happens if students can't see one signal clearly? Can they redesign the system?
💡 Teacher takeaway: Track both speed AND accuracy. Students may discover that the fastest communication system isn't necessarily the most reliable. That's systems thinking hiding inside football. 👉 Explore sports-based STEM at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07Gvlr0.

🏆 STEM SUCCESS FRIDAY 🏆Prototype #1: 💥 Didn't work. Now what? ❌ Throw it away? ❌ Tell students the correct answer? ❌ St...
09/04/2026

🏆 STEM SUCCESS FRIDAY 🏆
Prototype #1: 💥 Didn't work. Now what? ❌ Throw it away? ❌ Tell students the correct answer? ❌ Start an entirely different activity? Or... 📊 USE THE RESULT. That's where an engineering challenge gets really interesting. Ask students: 👀 What happened? 🧠 Why do you think it happened? 📏 What evidence do you have? ⚙️ What ONE thing could you change? 🔄 What do you predict will happen next? Then... Test it again. Now students aren't randomly rebuilding. They're using evidence to improve a solution. 💡 Teacher takeaway: Try limiting students to changing only one variable between tests. It makes it much easier to discuss whether that specific change affected the outcome. Prototype #1 isn't a failure. It's the starting point for Prototype #2. 👉 Explore hands-on STEM through sports at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07wTmb0.

🔊🏀 What does STEM sound like? It might sound like... 🏀 A basketball hitting hardwood. 🎾 A racket striking a ball. 📣 A cr...
09/03/2026

🔊🏀 What does STEM sound like? It might sound like... 🏀 A basketball hitting hardwood. 🎾 A racket striking a ball. 📣 A crowd cheering. 🏒 A hockey puck hitting the boards. 🏈 A quarterback trying to communicate inside a roaring stadium.
Each of those sounds begins with vibration. That vibration transfers energy through the surrounding air as a sound wave until it eventually reaches our ears. But the sound we hear also depends on the source, materials, surrounding surfaces, frequency, amplitude, and environment.
💡 Try this with students: Ask them to identify five sounds during a sporting event. Then investigate: What is vibrating to create each sound? That one question can turn something students hear every day into an investigation of waves and energy. Our newest blog goes even further with hands-on activities involving sound mapping, stadium design, distance, decibels, and more.
👉 Read the complete Sports Acoustics STEM Activities blog at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07yMv30

⭐ WHAT THEY SAID WEDNESDAY The timer goes off. STEM time is over. And the students respond: “No, you're kidding me!”That...
09/02/2026

⭐ WHAT THEY SAID WEDNESDAY The timer goes off. STEM time is over. And the students respond: “No, you're kidding me!”
That's how educator Sandra Hayes described what happens when her STEM Sports students realize their time is up.
They want to keep going. And we love what that says about hands-on STEM learning. Imagine students working through this week's football engineering challenge:
✏️ Design a solution. 🧱 Build it. 💥 Test it. 😬 Watch it fail. 📊 Figure out why. 🔄 Make a change. Then suddenly... ⏰ TIME'S UP.
But they're not done thinking. They've already figured out what they want to change. They want to know if their new idea will work. They need one more test.
👉 Discover hands-on STEM students want to keep exploring at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07wTSk0.

🏈 Football season = STEM season!Bring the excitement of fantasy football into your classroom with Fantasy Football – STE...
08/31/2026

🏈 Football season = STEM season!
Bring the excitement of fantasy football into your classroom with Fantasy Football – STEM Sports!
Students become the “coaches” as they:
📊 Analyze real football statistics
🧮 Practice math skills
🤔 Make data-driven decisions
🤝 Collaborate and problem-solve
Use it week after week throughout football season for an engaging way to connect sports + math + STEM.
🏈 Perfect for grades 3–12!
👉 Check it out on Teachers Pay Teachers:
https://na2.hubs.ly/H07sT1C0

🏈⚙️ What makes a good protective design? Is it the material? The shape? The thickness? The way the pieces work together?...
08/31/2026

🏈⚙️ What makes a good protective design? Is it the material? The shape? The thickness? The way the pieces work together? There's only one way for an engineer to find out: TEST IT.
With football season getting underway, challenge your students to think like sports-equipment engineers. Give teams identical materials and ask them to design a protective structure around a model object.
Then: ✏️ Draw the design 🧱 Build it 📏 Establish how you'll measure success 💥 Test it 📊 Record what happened 🔄 Change ONE variable 💥 Test again
Did the redesign actually perform better? What evidence proves it?
👉 Discover more hands-on STEM through sports at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07wSY-0.

🏆 STEM SUCCESS FRIDAY 🏆🎾 Where should you stand? 🎯 Where should you aim? 📐 What angle connects you to the target? 👟 What...
08/28/2026

🏆 STEM SUCCESS FRIDAY 🏆
🎾 Where should you stand? 🎯 Where should you aim? 📐 What angle connects you to the target? 👟 What happens if you move three feet? A tennis activity can start as a geometry lesson—but those questions ask students to do something bigger: Visualize the problem before trying to solve it. Then students can make a prediction, test their idea, measure what happened, and adjust. 💡 Teacher takeaway: Before students begin your next sports-based STEM challenge, give them 60 seconds to draw what they think will happen. After the experiment, have them revise their drawing based on the evidence. Now students aren't simply finding an answer. They're developing, testing, and revising a model of how they think the system works. That's STEM thinking students can carry into their next challenge. 👉 Explore hands-on STEM through sports at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07pbsv0.

🏆 We have some exciting news to celebrate! 🏆STEM Sports® is officially a 2026 Educators Pick Best of STEM® Award winner ...
08/27/2026

🏆 We have some exciting news to celebrate! 🏆
STEM Sports® is officially a 2026 Educators Pick Best of STEM® Award winner for Middle School STEM – Sports Based Learning! 🎉
This recognition means even more because it comes from educators—the people who take our curriculum and turn it into real, hands-on learning experiences for students every day. To all of the teachers, schools and program leaders who have supported STEM Sports: this win belongs to you, too! 💚
👉 Read the full story:
https://na2.hubs.ly/H07sVfp0

⚾ It is not too late to see if STEM Sports can "measure up!"💰 Save $250 on STEM Sports curriculum kits and manuals throu...
08/27/2026

⚾ It is not too late to see if STEM Sports can "measure up!"
💰 Save $250 on STEM Sports curriculum kits and manuals through August 31!
Use code STEM250 at checkout or include it on your PO.
Plus, see how STEM Sports gets students moving, thinking, collaborating, and solving real-world problems through the sports they already love.
👉 Check out the August newsletter: https://na2.hubs.ly/H07rT9L0

⭐ WHAT THEY SAID WEDNESDAY ⭐ One thing educators consistently notice about sports-based STEM? Students aren't sitting on...
08/26/2026

⭐ WHAT THEY SAID WEDNESDAY ⭐ One thing educators consistently notice about sports-based STEM? Students aren't sitting on the sidelines of the learning. They're part of it. Take this week's tennis theme. 🎾 Students can physically change their starting position, predict an angle, measure it, test the shot, observe what happens, and try again. 📐 They're learning geometry. 📏 They're practicing measurement. 🧠 They're solving problems. 🤝 They're collaborating. 🎾 And they're moving while they do it.
That's what makes active STEM learning so powerful. Students aren't just hearing that changing position changes an angle.
They can see it happen. 💡 Teacher takeaway: Give students different roles during your next investigation—player, measurer, recorder, and observer. Rotate the roles and ask how each perspective changed what they noticed about the experiment.
👉 Explore hands-on STEM through sports at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07p6QG0.

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