STEM Activities and read aloud books go hand-in-hand in this BUNDLE, perfect for enrichment, gifted and talented programs, and all elementary classrooms. These STEM activities bring these beloved stories to life! Perfect for your STEM library, makerspace, or to use as a literacy-based STEM curriculum.

Each resource includes multiple STEM challenges so that you can either allow for student choice or use the challenges across multiple grade levels but only one story.

Some of the options are more appropriate for one age group than another (for instance, in Bookshelf STEM Jr. Strictly No Elephants is better for K-1, while Those Darn Squirrels is better for upper grades, and Holes and Hatchet are most appropriate for upper grades, too, but The Wild Robot is appropriate for everyone). I always recommend previewing the book ahead of time to make sure it's a good fit for your particular group of students.

Bookshelf STEM Junior - Picture Book STEM with a minimum of 3 STEM challenges per story

• A Loud Winter's Nap
• Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos
• Groundhog's Runaway Shadow
• Kamala and Maya's Big Idea
• Made by Maxine
• Olive, the Other Reindeer
• The Day the Crayons Quit
• Those Darn Squirrels
• Room on the Broom
• Strictly No Elephants
• Violet the Pilot
• What Do You Do with an Idea?
• Eraser
• The Great Turkey Race

Bookshelf STEM - Chapter Book STEM with a minimum of 4 STEM challenges per book

• A Boy Called BAT
• Charlotte's Web
• Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Pax
• Stella Diaz Has Something to Say
• Stuart Little
• The BFG
• The Dot (this should really be with the picture books, but I created it before I started creating those resources!)
• The One and Only Ivan
• The Wild Robot Escapes

Novel STEM - STEM that follow the story, includes STEM vocabulary, and a deeper dive into the challenges

• The Wild Robot
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• Holes
• Hatchet