It's the birds! These 4 STEM Challenges include hands out, interactive challenges for students. Each is complete with a lesson plan, handout, and grading rubric. 3 are about building bird nests, another about adaptation of beaks, and the Angry Birds is a resource on engineering and design. The bonus resource is a rubric for using and citing evidence in a CER or argumentative essay, something I know my middle schoolers need more support on. Use these challenges as HiCap extensions, family night a