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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 16
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!
- Make your own Shrinky-Dinks!
(Adult assistance required) – don’t forget to punch a hole in your charm before baking if you want to use it as a keyring 🙂
- Action for Children have a brilliant selection of activities for children at home, including science!
- United Utilities have launched their own Home Learning Hub.
Discover all about water via workbooks, puzzles & science experiments!
- Barefoot Computing’s Home Learning Hub is now LIVE!
Visit their website for challenges, mini-missions & interactive games!
- Tech can be good for you!
Find & use one app on your smartphone that could improve your health. It could be a healthy recipes app, mindfulness, exercise, water consumption, you choose.
Use the app for one week and see if your health (or mood) improves.
Did it work?
- Design / Technology: Watch this video…
Can you design & make your own bookends?
(Adult supervision required)
- The Smallpiece Trust are offering a fantastic playlist of videos packed with engineering projects for children! Check out the full list…
- Visit the Royal Academy of Engineering, they have an awesome selection of activities in their new STEM at Home zone.
Today’s focus – Skills: Perspective
Three impressive ways to draw in three dimensions.
- A cityscape
- A hole
- A tunnel.
- Maths Magic!
Download this fun booklet from the Royal Academy of Engineering, there are tons of fun tips & tricks!
- It’ll probably be snake-eyes… or will it?
Play this dice game to learn about probability.
- Printable worksheets, online games & more with Oxford Owl.
Just choose your age range and GO!
- Fractions can be fun!
We know they can be tricky, we hope these online games can help.
- Printable: Gratitude Journal for Kids
Concentrating on positivity at the end of each day.
- Play Guess The Sound!
- Blow bubbles. Just like blowing on a pinwheel, blowing bubbles can help children gain control of their breathing and relax their mind. Running around popping bubbles is just as fun as blowing them too!
- Aquarium time… ahh…
Sit back, relax & watch the fishes.
(Great for children & adults, this can be viewed on your TV screen too!)
- Need to burn off some energy quickly?
Try this 3 minute virtual game where you’re the star.
Follow the onscreen instructions to make it to the end of the level.
(View it on your TV to feel the VR vibes… and RUN!)
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-Tag us in your home or school project photos and inspire others. We’d love to share them and celebrate your children’s success!
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