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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 12
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!
- Sun is shining! How about a Self-Freezing Slushie? Yum!
Make your own…
- Don’t miss ExpeRimental LIVE!
Explosive science experiments fro kids age 7-11 from the Royal Instution.
- Looking to talk to your children about Covid-19?
Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo) has illustrated a new FREE online book for children about the Coronavirus. Authored by Jenner, Wilson & Roberts, it’s packed with child-friendly science, information and advice.
- Playdough to Plato:
Water Cycle in a Bag & 30 Jaw Dropping Science Experiments
- This is an awesome online booklet for parents on Computer Science from the Detective Dot team. Kids will love it too!
- YouTuber!
Produce your own instruction video. Plan your content, write a script, prepare your equipment & film it. Show your friends how to play your favourite game or showcase your hobby!
- Let the music play!
Play drums, keyboard and more online…
We’re BIG fans of Incredibox (Beat-Box) too!
Just drag & drop the beats on your chosen artists.
- Kids Invent Stuff!
Design your own invention and you could have it made by the Kids Invent Stuff team! (As seen on BBC’s The One Show.)
- I’m an Engineer, Stay at home
“I’m an Engineer” is an online platform which links students with engineers and enables them to stay connected with STEM during school closures. Through a moderated online chat facility, students are able to engage with engineers and learn about STEM and routes into engineering.
The Tomorrow’s Engineers online Stay at Home Zone will run from 20 April to 20 July 2020.
- TechDoodles: Design & Technology PowerPoints
Fab slide-shows to get your thinking, designing & making.
Today’s focus – Online Drawing
- Draw online with spray paint, fur, webs, Spirograph effects & more.
Younger children might like to try Tate Paint from the Tate Gallery.
- Channel Banksy & try Street Art – Write your name or create an image, there are numerous backgrounds to choose from!
- With WeaveSilk you can use light and symmetry to create amazing art… it’s so relaxing too.
Perfect pixels! Do we need to say more?
Use this online platform to create your own game characters or retro images… why not design your own Space Invaders!
- Inspirograph! Like Spirograph but online… just click your gears, your pen colour and a hole (and use your left and right arrows to draw).
- Try these maths puzzles, why not make your own too and choose your own pictures!
- Primal Scream!
Sometimes all of your emotions can feel too much to contain. Stand with feet shoulder width apart and imagine your feelings bubbling up from your toes up through your body and out of your mouth. A yell, a scream, a word, a shout… a roar! The sound you choose is up to you, the action can really help you relax.
- Duvet Day! Snuggle up in your favourite pyjamas with your family – play games, watch movies, chat and enjoy.
- Dance party! Music & movement together can raise spirits and lift everyone’s mood. This can be exercise too but it’s more about letting go & having fun. Don’t forget to throw in some silly moves just for laughs.
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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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