Elementary Science Competition Without Leaving Your Classroom
STEM Playground is a free virtual STEM competition designed to prepare 3rd thru 5th grade students for STEM competition using standards-aligned activities in a contest format.
Download activities to conduct with your class and upload your scores to our database to get instant feedback on class performance!
Registration for the 2016-2017 school year is underway!
What We Do
Explore Our Activities
How We Align to Standards
STEM Playground designed its STEM activities and supporting curriculum material around you and your students, NOT Common Core standards. However, we understand the need for those of you in Common Core-participating states to meet English Language Arts and Math standards, even as you teach science.
So STEM Playground asked educational publisher Longbourn Editorial to correlate our current curriculum material to both Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.
How Our Competition Works
STEM Playground’s activities are designed to be completed by teams of two students and will have measurable results which you can compare with other classes globally, nationally, or even within your own community or school.
While you can compare results from just one activity, you can also compete in the cumulative League Challenge by completing all 12 designated League Challenge activities.
STEM Playground prepares elementary students for team-based STEM competition through activities designed to create excitement about STEM at an early age while assessing and developing the character traits required for effective collaboration. Through our online virtual STEM tournament, teachers conduct simple, inexpensive science-based activities with their two-student teams, then upload their scores to compare with other teams and classes around the globe.