Engineering Design Process K–6 | STEM Posters, Worksheets, Rubric & Team Roles

Teach students how to think, build, test, improve, and problem-solve like engineers with a reusable Engineering Design Process toolkit designed for grades K–6. This 30-page STEM resource goes beyond classroom posters. Students learn and use a clear 7-step process: Ask → Imagine → Plan → Create → Test → Improve → Share The pack includes full-color process posters, student planning and brainstorming pages, design sketches, testing tools, reflection pages, assessment resources, and STEM team-role cards. Built-in differentiation makes the resource useful across a wide elementary age range. Younger students receive simplified language and picture-friendly response options, while older students work with more detailed planning, criteria and constraints, testing data, redesign decisions, and final reflection. Because the planning and assessment pages are not tied to one specific challenge, teachers can reuse them with many different STEM activities throughout the school year. Why Teachers Will Love It - Teaches a clear 7-step Engineering Design Process - Includes full-color classroom posters - Includes differentiated K–2 and grades 3–6 options - Provides reusable planning and testing pages - Includes student reflection tools - Includes a complete STEM rubric - Includes a teacher observation checklist - Includes team-role cards for group challenges - Works with virtually any STEM engineering project - Helps create consistent STEM routines - Useful throughout the entire school year Perfect For - Elementary STEM - Grades K–6 - STEAM classes - Engineering challenges - Makerspaces - STEM centers - Science and engineering units - Project-based learning - Group STEM challenges - Beginning-of-year STEM instruction - Engineering-design review - Classroom STEM displays - Homeschool STEM Skills & Concepts Students practice: - Identifying a problem - Asking questions - Brainstorming multiple solutions - Planning a design - Selecting materials - Understanding criteria and constraints - Building prototypes - Testing designs - Recording results - Analyzing what worked - Making improvements - Redesigning - Reflecting on the process - Communicating solutions - Collaborating as a team The 7-Step Engineering Design Process Ask What is the problem? What are we trying to solve? Imagine What different solutions could work? Plan Which idea will we use, and how will we build it? Create Build the planned design. Test Try the design and observe what happens. Improve Use testing results to make the design better. Share Explain the solution, process, and results.