Shark Week Stem Challenges with Recording Sheets & Reflection Pages

Bring ocean excitement into your classroom with these engaging Shark Week STEM Challenges! This hands on STEM resource is perfect for helping students design, build, test, improve, and problem solve while learning through a fun shark and ocean theme.

These Shark Week STEM activities are easy to use, student friendly, and perfect for adding meaningful science and engineering practice to your classroom. Students will work through creative STEM challenges while using the engineering design process to plan their ideas, create a design, test their work, and reflect on ways to improve.

This resource is a great fit for Shark Week classroom activities, ocean units, summer school, STEM centers, science centers, end of year activities, morning tubs, early finishers, sub plans, and hands on learning days.

What’s Included?

• 10 shark themed STEM challenge cards
• Student planning pages
• Design and drawing worksheets
• Team planning page
• Reflection worksheet
• STEM challenge rubric

Perfect For

• Shark Week activities
• Ocean theme units
• Summer STEM activities
• End of year activities
• STEM centers
• Science centers
• STEM bins
• Morning tubs
• Summer school
• Early finishers
• Sub plans
• Partner work
• Small group projects

Skills Covered

• STEM
• Engineering design
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking
• Planning and testing
• Creativity
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Reflection
• Hands on learning

These Shark Week STEM Challenges are a fun and practical way to keep students engaged while practicing important science, technology, engineering, and math skills. Whether you are planning an ocean themed unit, celebrating Shark Week, or looking for easy summer STEM activities, this resource gives students the chance to think like engineers while having a little shark themed fun.

Perfect for 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade, with support adjusted based on student needs.