Exploring Your Skill Activities
Exploring Your Skill Activities
Your subscription to SuperSTEM comes with a variety of skill activities that support reading comprehension and writing skills, math strategies, and reinforce science and engineering practices. There are also many opportunities to check for students’ understanding using our summative and formative assessments.
You can see a full list of activities offered with each article or each issue in our print or digital Teacher's Guide.

Here’s where you can download all activities for the entire issue:

Types of Skills Sheets:
Types of Skills Sheets:
Hands-on Science and Engineering Activities
Hands-on Science and Engineering Activities
Every issue of SuperSTEM includes at least two hands-on activities. These include investigations, modeling activities, or engineering challenges. Each activity is easy to set up in the classroom and uses affordable, easy-to-find items.
Visuals: Charts, Graphs, Maps & Diagrams
Visuals: Charts, Graphs, Maps & Diagrams
Every issue of SuperSTEM includes activities that ask students to analyze real-world data related to the articles presented in charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams.
Science and Engineering Practices
Science and Engineering Practices
We regularly provide opportunities to develop student proficiency in different science and engineering practices from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), such as developing models, constructing explanations, and planning investigations.
Literacy and English Language Arts (ELA)
Literacy and English Language Arts (ELA)
Each feature article in SuperSTEM has at least one accompanying activity that allows students to practice a particular literacy skill, such as evaluating paired texts, determining the main idea, and writing expository texts. Our Vocabulary Kits include a variety of enriching activities to reinforce new terms and help students grow their vocabularies.
Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension
The No-Sweat Bubble Test included with every issue is a multiple-choice quiz covering key ideas from one of the feature articles. Build students’ confidence and core science knowledge with these 10 questions modeled after standardized assessments. It is also available on our website as a Google Quiz.
Math
Math
Every feature article comes with a skill-building math activity to reinforce foundational skills. Each activity includes a math strategy box with step-by-step instructions to guide students through an example problem. Many activities include a variety of graph types, tables, and other visual models for students to identify patterns and trends. Additionally, our hands-on activities include integrated math skills like measurement and data collection and analysis.
Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers
Help students build their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills with our library of graphic organizers, including text features, reading comprehension activities, and more. These organizers can be found in the “Your Literacy Kit” section with each article’s teaching resources.
Question & Answer Sheets
Question & Answer Sheets
Every issue of SuperSTEM includes Question & Answer sheets providing the questions or prompts from each article with lines for students to record their responses.