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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 1
We know teachers & parents are always surfing the web looking for fun, interesting activities for their children, so we’re sharing our Inspiration Stations to help.
Each Inspiration Station is packed with home & school resources, videos, virtual tours, projects, awards and more! There are 60+ collections with over 2000 ideas!
You can also find activities to promote positivity, mindfulness and exercise.
Science – Technology – Engineering – Art – Maths – Mind – Body – Enjoy!
- British Science Week – Awesome FREE activity packs for children of all ages.
- Learn about surface tension with the Pepper Experiment.
This is a fantastic example of how germs can react to soap!
- Is it raining today? Make a cloud in a jar!
- Get planting! Plant seeds you have or seeds from fruit and vegetables, nurture them and watch them grow! Want faster plants, try these hacks and projects.
- Imagine being an astronaut… Try Mission X or take a mission to the moon!
- STEM: In the future, will you be protecting the environment, designing apps or exploring outer space? Take the quiz!
- Do you like Minecraft, Frozen, Moana, Star Wars, Flappy Bird or gaming?
Complete an hour of code using your favourite games and characters.
You can print a certificate on completion!
- If you could design any game on your console, what would it be?
Design your main character, a level or a whole world.
- Design a games controller! This project can help you earn a CREST Award.
- Resources from real astronauts for all ages!
Create a Mars Rover (KS3)
Become a planetary explorer (4-11)
Primary: Run Your Own Space Week
Videos: Meet Paxi the alien & learn all about space!
- Build a marble run! Take a look at this video for some amazing inspiration.
- Using craft materials (or Lego/bricks) design & build your own theme park!
- Make a wooden or
- Who can make the tallest tower out of craft supplies / straws / sticks / household items (no foods or breakables, stay safe!)
- Engineering – Design: Make a 3D Card for Mother’s Day or an upcoming celebration. There are so many ideas here too!
- Engineering – Art – Science: Design & build your own bug habitat after researching the bugs in your garden!
- Engineering – Technology: Design a bedroom, playroom or classroom of the future!
- Problem Solving – Engineering: Design an new invention for your bedroom to make life easier or more fun.
Today’s focus – Animation:
- Beginner: Make a flipbook!
- Advanced: Make a flipbook with a moving background! (Parallax Effect)
- Make a Zoetrope at home
- Become an Animated Movie Producer!
Try stop-motion animation using the Stop Motion Studio app.
- Play Countdown (dum, de-do-de-do, dum, de-do-de-do, durrum, durrum – durra-di-dum – booooo!)
- Bake! Use your maths skills to measure out all of the ingredients. What would you need to make half of the recipe?
- Multiplication – The Magic Lines Trick!
You can do it with numbers including zero too…
- Pizza time! Talk about fractions as you slice, then enjoy – yum!
- Maths – Life Skills: Work out how much your next shopping list will cost and see if you are within budget.
- Maths – Art – Life Skills: Play a money game together (Monopoly/Game of Life/Payday) or design your own.
- Happy & Calm: Make Ninja Stress Balls!
- Happy: Draw a picture of all of the things you are thankful for today.
- Happy: Start a nature album & journal – draw or take photos of wildlife, birds or nature. What did you spot? Look up your finds and discover more about them.
- Healthy: Make a chart to tick off your daily water or five-a-day fruits & vegetables.
- Healthy & Happy: Find a quiet, safe space and close your eyes… you have 10 minutes to sit and let your mind wander. Think about things that make you smile.
- Create your own (safe) assault course with a parent or host your own Backyard Olympics. Time how long it takes you to complete, can you beat your time?
- Play keep-ups with a balloon or paper ball for as long as you can using feet or hands! Try more than one balloon, here’s a world record holder to inspire you!
- Balancing act: Tape a line (as long and wiggly as you like across the floor or carpet) try to balance along the whole line.
- Relax… Here’s some simple yoga positions – have a go!
- Fun: No matter what age you are, play Tag or try Limbo!
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