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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 2
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!
- This is electrifying! So many STEMsational ‘static’ experiments – magically levitate objects at home!
- Make your own yoghurt! No food waste here as your fruity experiments can be eaten… you can use this activity towards a CREST Award too!
- Primary: Starters for STEM!
STEM Learning have a handy downloadable list of 10 quick and interactive activities.
- SCRATCH!
Have you used Scratch in school? Even if you haven’t, it’s available online for free!
You can code stories, games & animations.
- Talk about technological advancements!
Try this playlist of fun videos where kids react to old tech, can you figure out how to use them? Do you have any old tech at home?
- Design – Technology: Can you create a cardboard chair that will take your weight, a balloon car or the strongest bridge?
- Take a technology trip!
Use your phone or laptop to visit and tour a place you’ve always wanted to go.
Try Google (for images) Google Maps, Google Street View and different websites to see as much of your dream destination as possible. You could make a scrapbook or create a project using the things you find.
- What’s your favourite tech?
Find out how it works (and how anything works) here!
- NASA Explores! (Official): A fantastic list of Space Launch resources for all ages. Everything from colouring books to designing mechanics!
- Make your own smart phone stand!
This is a full list of videos so you can choose your favourite depending on the materials you have. (Some tutorials require adult supervision.)
- LEGO Engineers!
If you like LEGO this is for you, there’s everything from the pyramids to a dream house.
- Primary: The RNLI (Lifeboats) have awesome colouring sheets of their fleet along with quizzes and ‘spot the danger’ puzzles!
- Engineering – Science:
Delicious! Make a Solar Oven and prepare some yummy s’mores.
(Adult supervision required.)
Today’s focus – 3D Optical Illusions:
- Beginner: 3D Impossible Triangle
- Intermediate: 3D Hole – Anamorphic
- Advanced: Rubic’s Cube – Anamorphic
- More? Here’s a whole selection!
- Maths – Literacy – Observation – Problem Solving:
Love Harry Potter?
Try this new online escape room!
- Learn maths with LEGO!
Full playlist with squillions of ideas.
- 10 Maths Games to Boost Brain Power!
Perfect for children, teens and adults – how many can you get right?
- BBC Bitesize has a phenomenal Maths section packed with games for all years. Have you tried Guardians? There’s activities for every subject too!
- If I was a millionaire!
You have a million (imaginary) pounds – price, add up and create your dream shopping list…
- Waterford: Over 50 Mindful Activities for Children
- Draw your favourite thing to do.
- Create your own journal and share your feelings, emotions & experiences at the end of each day. You can decorate it any way you like and use it for your lists and goals too!
- Read your favourite book or books in bed for at least 30 minutes.
- Learn British Sign Language, it’s free for under 18’s and you receive a certificate on completion.
- Cosmic Kids offer a series of free guided relaxation videos for children called ‘Peace Out’.
- Jumping Jacks: Compete with each other to see who can do the most in one set… don’t forget to try and beat your number next week.
- School Disco: There’s nothing stopping you turning up the tunes and showing off your moves wherever you are!
- Are you a Harry Potter, Avengers or Star Wars fan?
Have a go at a Glenn Higgins themed workout!
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You can tag us in your home or school project photos, we’d love to share them and celebrate your activities!
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