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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 5
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!
- Build an Archimedes Screw, you can find out more about Archimedes here.
- Make your drawings float!
How is this possible? Here’s the science behind it.
- Make sugar crystals you can eat!
(Adult supervision required)
- How well do you wash your hands?
A fun way to learn about hygiene – with paint!
- Everything you need to know about the Human Body…
Explore the skeletal, nervous, muscular, circulatory, urinary, respiratory, and digestive systems along with the five senses.
- Make a paper circuit – this is awesome fun & you don’t need copper tape like most, just a pencil!
- Make your own smartphone projector!
How awesome does it get? This really works… take a look.
- Like puzzles?
Complete this technology wordsearch!
- Grab your phone or camera and complete this photo scavenger hunt!
- Create a Gumdrop Geodesic Dome and test it’s strength!
If you don’t want to use food, use sticks & dough or blu-tac.
- Go sailing! How much weight can foil boats float?
(Adult supervision required)
- Build a wind powered car – whoosh!
(Adult supervision required – blades/scissors)
- Design a wind-powered machine with Practical Action and you could receive a CREST Award!
- Make a paper plane launcher! Who can fly the longest distance?
Today’s focus – Textiles
- Weaving
- Life Skills: Sewing
- Science & Art: Go natural – Tie-dye a t-shirt using onion skins
- And with your sewing skills you can try these hacks!
- Oxford Owl have a full range of videos on offer to learn and practise maths skills.
- STEM Learning offer online & downloadable resources for Primary & Secondary Maths. They cover all other subjects too, visit their website to find out more!
- Teens & Adults: An online tool from National Numeracy to help improve every day maths skills in manageable steps.
- Make your own Top Trumps Maths Cards or download a set for FREE from TES! They have plenty of other subjects covered too.
- Logical and fun! Try these online maths & logic puzzles.
- Make your own Word Cloud, pack it with positive words or the names of your favourite people! Fabulous for framing and displaying at home.
- Get planting! Plant some fruit or vegetable seeds in pots or in the garden. The best part is, you get to eat what you grow!
- Mindfulness for Teens – Meditations, videos, resources & more.
- Paint pebbles for your garden or planters or make a pebble picture.
- Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse is offering free dance classes online.
- Check out Sport England‘s top tips for exercising at home with children.
- Go old-school – have a go at hula-hooping, hopscotch or twister!
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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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