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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 17
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!
- Make an aluminium ball from foil!
(Adult supervision required: Younger children can press the foil firmly into a ball before sanding, no need for a hammer.)
- Visit Practical Action’s Home Learning Hub
Their STEM challenges are their most popular activities as they engage children in developing their own solutions for real life problems. Have a go, you can earn a CREST Award too!
- Chester Zoo!
Along with their awesome live videos, Chester Zoo have over 50 amazing activities on animals, science & conservation!
- The Royal Society offers Primary & Secondary Home Learning Resources including a library of videos & clips from Professor Brian Cox.
- Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre have four themed zones for Science Learning from Home. Explore their site here!
- Be a game designer for a day.
Try these activities from mouse open projects!
- Hour of Code is famous for its sensational coding games for children. Take a look at the new Home Learning Hub, there are so many fun activities to choose from!
Here’s Logdotzip to run you through with Minecraft…
- Tech We Can are offering their lesson plans to parents for home learning. Watch their introductory video & register to get started!
- Join Dick & Dom as they go head-to-head with the world’s most fantastical feats of engineering! Choose your episode here…
- Download these Science & Engineering Challenge Cards from Dyson!
Dyson has created 44 engineering and science activities for children to try, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti.
- Older Children: Born to Engineer & STEM Learning
Discover more about engineering careers and how people are using Engineering to transform lives for the better.
- Engineering Challenge: Build a Tornado Tower!
Today’s focus – 30 Days
- We love this 30 Day Drawing Challenge!
Print out the sheet & complete one image per day or have an arts day and do as many as you like in whatever order you wish.
Why not try drawing 30 squares on a large sheet & make one huge masterpiece!
This is a great project for when you’re relaxing too…
- Play cards!
Here are 10 ways a pack of playing cards can improve your maths – start a game & have fun!
- Snowboard Slalom is an exciting game that covers many areas of maths. Can you answer the questions before the timer ends?
Hit the slopes & find out!
- Cat-a-pult!
Catapult the cats on the shelves in sequence. Choose from numbers, prime numbers, triangular numbers & more.
- Stop, Breathe, Think!
Check in with how you are feeling and choose a mission to help create your very own force field of calm.
- Drifting Afternoon
Hop your puppy from balloon to balloon in this relaxing game.
- Flow
Enjoy the soothing music and atmosphere.
You start out as a tiny organism, swimming around consuming other organisms. Watch as you evolve and grow over time…
- Start a new hobby:
Dancing – Yoga – Astronomy – Science – Coding
Nature watching – Photography – Colouring
Gardening – Music – Play an Instrument
Technology – Collections – Singing – Design
Scrapbooking – Cooking – Art – Sculpting – Crafting
- Ball games!
Escape to the garden to play catch, basketball, tennis, football, volleyball, cricket, rounders, you can even try a juggling session!
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