Explorers activities

Reading about the explorers to America and doing hands-on activities helps us too explore. This time, we're exploring the explorers!

Welcome to our list of the coolest outdoor STEM activities to keep your kids busy outside! Get kids enjoying the natural world around them while developing problem solving, creativity, observation, engineering skills and more. We love easy and do-able STEM projects for kids! Click to find the whole list of summer activities along with instructions and a supplies list!

Learn about Early Explorers for Kids with this fun, 5-week history lesson unit for elementary age kids to learn about the Vikings, Columbus, Magellan, and more!

Pack your bags and get ready to go on an incredible journey with your students! One of my favorite things about STEM education is that it is a multidisciplinary approach to project-based learning. Our STEM Explorers lessons truly embody that spirit by connecting engineering design challenges to

You can make a fun Kids Explorer journal with this free printable, plus more fun kids explorer ideas.

Make your own QUADRANT USED FOR EARLY NAVIGATION! Learn how early explorers used this tool and how it is used! Such a fun activity

This paper plate compass craft is a fairly simple paper craft that kids will be able to complete with minimal help. Great camping themed craft!

Learn how your kids can make designs and patterns on colored paper simply by using the power of the sun! Your kid will love this easy STEM activity.

Over 20 pirate STEM activities for kids! With these STEM challenges, teach kids about the STEM topics that fueled the Golden Age of Piracy.

Pirates offer many fascinating science topics - boat engineering, star navigation, and cartography. We greatly enjoy looking closely at different aspects of pirates' lives and doing related hands-on activities. As you can see from our pictures below, we had a lot of fun. And you will too! Besides our own activities, I included the best science-related, pirate-themed