STEM Bundle of Activities and Challenges Read Aloud Books and Novels

Literacy and STEM go hand-in-hand in this novel and read aloud STEM BUNDLE! 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