Bring science history, real-world discoveries, and STEM inspiration into your middle and high school classroom with this Science of the Day: January activity set, featuring an impressive 173 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) events, discoveries, inventions, and milestones across all 31 days of January. Connecting science to events that happened on specific dates helps students understand how scientific knowledge develops, how scientists and engineers have shaped our world, and why STEM matters beyond the classroom.

This versatile science warm-up resource is ideal for rapid-fire daily starters, bell ringers, lesson introductions, class discussions, or engaging ways to introduce and revisit topics in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science, technology, and engineering. With four classroom-ready formats, including an interactive HTML version, presentation slides featuring class discussion questions, a spreadsheet version, and a straightforward printable PDF, teachers can choose the format that best suits their teaching style and classroom needs.

This January Science On This Day Set provides the perfect supportive and fully comprehensive resource set that can help your students learn all about various historical science events. This is a brief, effective technique I use to get students in the scientific inquiry mood by getting them to learn a little bit of critical science and STEM from the past.

THIS JANUARY SCIENCE ON THIS DAY SET CAN BE USED IN SO MANY WAYS:

• To extend students
• To increase scientific literacy and scientific questioning in your class
• A entry point to a unit on this topic
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast or to start you off
• Use a sub-topic to focus on a specific part of the unit you are covering
• Wonderful as a short, sharp way to bring scientific curiosity and discussion each day.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS JANUARY SCIENCE ON THIS DAY SET:

• 1 HTML file which includes 173 items that covers the 31 days of January across different subjects across science & STEM. It is possible to filter by day, by subject type, by classroom display mode with associated discussion questions for classroom use and the ability to pick favourites as well.
• 1 Google Slides version with 173 slides that is edittable and you can change and use as you need.
• 1 Google Sheets version that helps filter different items and provides a clean and clear method of looking at different items.
• 1 PDF version for access incase the other items shown above do not work for you. A clean and clear version too.