Hispanic Heritage Month STEM Activities for Students

Need Hispanic Heritage Month STEM activities that go beyond a one-day lesson? Start with real scientists, engineers, and astronauts whose work helps students see STEM at work in the world.

These Newsela STEM resources help you build lessons around Hispanic STEM leaders and icons when you want to connect science learning with real people and real-world questions.

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Hispanic Heritage Month STEM activities work best when students study the science behind the story. Use these resources to frame scientists, engineers, astronauts, and environmental leaders as people solving real problems—not just a list of names to memorize.

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Use these resources to help students move from “learn about this scientist” to “Think like a scientist.” Students can compare traits, trace evidence, ask stronger questions, and connect STEM careers to real problems people are solving.

See how Hispanic scientists are changing the world

A scientist’s work is often influenced by their questions, experiences, persistence, and curiosity, and those affect the problems they choose to solve.

Use this activity to help students compare Hispanic scientists and connect their character traits to the scientific work they do. Students will read about scientists across fields, look for stated and inferred traits, and explain why those traits matter in STEM.

Teach about Frank Rubio’s record-setting spaceflight

Frank Rubio’s spaceflight gives students a concrete way to connect science content with human experience. Instead of only learning that astronauts live and work on the International Space Station, students can ask what long-duration spaceflight feels like, what problems astronauts have to solve, and how reporters use evidence to tell that story.

Keep STEM connections going beyond Hispanic Heritage Month with Newsela

Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time to help students see how Hispanic scientists, astronauts, engineers, and environmental leaders have shaped the world around them. But these stories do not have to stay in one month of the school year.

With the Newsela Learning Suite, you can use these and other Hispanic Heritage Month STEM activities as a starting point for more conversations about who does science, what questions scientists ask, and how STEM work connects to students’ lives.

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