What Goes in a Stem Bin

What are STEM Bins? STEM Bins are plastic school boxes filled with an engineering manipulative of your choice, such as Legos, pattern blocks, base ten blocks, unifix cubes, toothpicks and playdough, or popsicle sticks with velcro on the ends.

What is the purpose of stem bins?

STEM Bins encourage students to create, invent, and solve problems using real-world challenges. This teacher-developed program includes an illustrated guide with questions and prompts for quick implementation into individual and group classroom settings. All materials are ready to use with minimal assembly required.

What is the STEM system?

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.