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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 7
There’s no need to ride the search engines, hop off at All About STEM’s Inspiration Station!
We know that 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!
- The Scouts are offering over 100 activities to get young people actively & creatively learning at home!
- Love Animals? The RSPCA have a new home learning section packed with fun activities & worksheets.
- Watch! These are NOT experiments for home but they’re great fun for kids to watch & learn from. Go BIG with Science Max!
- Teach Computing have an awesome list of activity ideas & resources for all years. They’re available to schools & families & there’s everything from Digital Painting to Coding Scratch!
- STEM Learning have introduced a full range of home learning resources, find out more!
- Be a tech inventor!
Watch this video and be inspired! Then design your own new gadget or toy that could be the next technological sensation!
- ICT from Becta: One for parents – This booklet explains how technology at home or in a learning environment can help the whole family engage in learning.
- CREST is a great distance learning opportunity for families and schools. Choose your STEM project & earn an award!
- Save up! Make your own coin sorting machine with cardboard.
- The paper plane that flies like a bird…
- One Pack Challenge: You have one pack of cards, no tape, glue… nothing else. Who can make the largest house or strongest structure? GO!
- A booklet crammed with engineering inspiration from PBS.
Try the Zip Line, Water Challenges, Rubber band paddles & more!
Today’s focus – Origami!
- Beginner: We don’t do things by halves… here’s 65 ways to start enjoying paper folding. We love the water bomb for fun in the garden & the jumping frog!
- Intermediate: Plenty of puzzles & geometric shapes in this mix. Combine art & maths with these fun origami projects.
- Advanced: Who doesn’t like Pokemon?
How about a Pikachu & Pokeball? YES!
- Advanced: Make an origami Darth Vader!
(Insert Star Wars music here…)
- Primary Maths! Headstart Primary Ltd have FREE Maths & English Activity Books for all!
- FREE & engaging Maths Workbooks for Reception to Year 8 from Mathletics!
- Maths: The End of Term Quiz!
Resources for Year 5 – 10
- Be sure to add Numbots to your PC ‘favourites’, children will know it from school but their Home/Family Learning section is COMING SOON! Keep your eyes peeled for that…
- ‘Mindfulness means knowing directly what is going on inside and outside ourselves, moment by moment.’
Download these KS2 resources from LitFilmFest & HeadSpace, perfect for self-reflection and awareness during stressful times.
- This Coping Calendar provides helpful actions to take each day during this time.
- What is mindfulness?
A fantastic animation for children & young people…
- A Mindful Calendar to raise self-awareness, esteem and positivity.
- If you prefer to dance than workout, see if you can master the moves to Fight Song!
- Finally… stretch it out!
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