The Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education have partnered to create Siemens STEM Day, a beloved K-12 STEM program that offers an extensive library of free, standards-aligned activities that bring science, technology, engineering, and math to life inside and outside the classroom.

In this activity, students will test the effectiveness of different parachute designs.

In this activity, students will make their own weather station consisting of actual and simplified versions of real weather equipment.

In this activity, students will gain an understanding of the law of reflection by tracing the path that light travels, and designing a periscope to demonstrate understanding.

In this activity, students will build a device that can carry a small ball from the top of a two-meter zip line to the bottom in less than six seconds.

In this activity, students will learn about the stars, planets, and Moon found in our solar system and how they relate to one another.

In this activity, students will paint craft spheres to resemble the Earth, moon and sun.

In this activity, students will construct interactive lunar cycle models to illustrate the phases of the Moon in 3 dimensions.

In this activity, students will learn about Earth’s four major systems: geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.

In this activity, students will learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

In this activity, students will investigate how a specific group of insects move, referred to in our lesson as the focus insects.

In this activity, students will examine how the Earth’s land surface is affected by water in its different forms.