Help combat summer learning loss with hands-on activities that get kids moving, thinking, and discovering. STEM Sports® connects science, technology, engineering, and math to the sports students love, bringing meaningful enrichment to K–8 summer programs and camps.
Give your team a clear plug-and-play plan for summer learning—and give students opportunities to practice academic skills through active, collaborative experiences.
Summer is an opportunity to keep students connected to learning while giving them space to explore new interests. Intentional summer programming can help combat learning loss by creating regular opportunities to practice skills, solve problems, and apply knowledge beyond the classroom.
STEM Sports makes those opportunities part of the fun. Students explore forces through a bouncing basketball, use measurement to investigate performance, and tackle engineering challenges connected to sports. As they test ideas and compare results, they put math and science into action alongside their peers.
For schools, camps, and community organizations, it’s a way to bring academic purpose and active enrichment into the same summer experience.
Students explore STEM concepts through real-world sports.
Movement is integrated into every lesson.
Students collaborate, communicate, and solve problems together.
Every lesson connects STEM to real careers in sports, engineering, data, health science, technology, and more.
Summer programming plays an important role in district planning. A 2025 Gallup survey of 421 superintendents, conducted for the National Summer Learning Association and AASA, found that:
Explore the findings to support your summer planning and conversations with staff, families, and district leaders.
Source: National Summer Learning Association and AASA, 2025 superintendent survey conducted by Gallup.
Give students opportunities to measure, calculate, analyze results, and explain their thinking. Sports provide a real-world setting for practicing STEM skills throughout the summer.
Combine hands-on investigations with physical activity. Students participate in the experience as they explore the connections between what they’re learning and the games they enjoy.
Support your summer team with structured lessons, sports equipment, and science materials. Teachers, counselors, coaches, and program leaders can guide activities without needing a STEM or sports background.
Bring students together to share ideas, test solutions, and work through challenges. Each investigation creates opportunities to practice communication, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
Whether you’re developing a school-based summer learning program or adding enrichment to an established camp, STEM Sports gives you a starting point for connecting academics and activity.
Complement academic instruction with investigations that help students apply math and science through movement, experimentation, and discussion.
Add purposeful STEM enrichment to your summer offerings, giving students opportunities to discover new interests and learn with their peers.
Extend learning beyond playing the game. Help campers investigate the forces, motion, measurement, and equipment design behind their favorite sports.
Plan selected STEM Sports lessons alongside reading, arts, recreation, and other activities to create a varied summer experience.
Build on students’ interests with individual-sport and multi-sport curricula. Explore options for grades K–2, 3–5, and 6–8, with available grade bands varying by curriculum.
Choose printed or digital curriculum options and find kits that fit your students, activity spaces, and summer learning goals.
Summer programming gives students structured opportunities to continue practicing and applying academic skills. Combining instruction with engaging enrichment can keep learning part of students’ summer routines. STEM Sports contributes hands-on math and science experiences through sports-based activities.
No. STEM Sports lessons can be led by teachers, coaches, counselors, volunteers, and other program staff without a STEM or sports background.
No. It is not required. STEM Sports lessons are designed with instructional guidance built in, so instructors can lead them without specialized STEM training or prior experience with the 5E model. Read more about the 5E lesson sequence here.
Preparation means reviewing the lesson and organizing materials ahead of time. Optional professional development, provided by STEM Sports, can deepen implementation, but it is not required to get implemented.
Yes. Kits are designed for repeated use and can continue supporting classroom or afterschool enrichment. Some supplies may need replenishing over time.
Yes. Request a sample lesson to explore the activities and consider how they could fit your summer schedule.
Build a summer program that supports your efforts to combat learning loss while keeping students active and engaged. Explore STEM Sports curriculum for a summer filled with investigation, teamwork, and discovery.