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Home & School Learning: STEM/STEAM Resources Collection 19
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 your own wave machine with tape, skewers and jelly babies… no, we’re not kidding. THIS IS AWESOME!
Have a go and don’t forget to tag us @allaboutstem in your photos on twitter. We’re excited to share all of your projects!
- Make your own solar system
We love the idea of including a glowing sun!
- Reception/Year 1: Journey to the South Pole
Based on the children’s book Lost and Found, by Oliver Jeffers, this pack is full of ideas and activities about travel, the natural world and discovering different countries.
- Year 3/4: Journey into Earth
Explore a network of underground caves to encourage your child to think about life in Stone Age times, the role of art in human history, and preserving precious places.
- Year 4/5/6: Journey to Space!
Based around a story about a girl who dreams of space travel, this pack explores human feelings, science and problem-solving and will fire your child’s imagination.
- The CREST resource library is packed with projects and activities for children of all ages. Click here to take a look, fantastic for school or home!
- Build a mini-telescope!
Watch the video below or take a look at all of the amazing DIY options here… choose a project that suits the materials you have available.
- Like karaoke or making videos?
Turn your iPhone into a microphone and connect to a wireless speaker with the free Microphone LIVE app!
(We’d like to apologise to all parents in advance for this one!)
- Go sailing!
Take a virtual tour of the America’s Cup Tech Deck – through four short videos, explore the science behind the sport and their cutting edge technologies!
- National Centre for Computing Education: Home Learning Hub
Discover a collection of resources and partner websites that support home learning.
- Learn @ Home with YouTube
YouTube’s resource pages cover various subjects, choose a video that’s a bit of you and start learning!
- Only some humans can see this kind of light.
Here’s how you can see the colours, light & stress of certain materials… #EngineersUseThis
- Projects on everything from Forces to Mechanisms with the 1851 Trust!
- Whoa! These science toys will confuse you, take a look!
The Trammel of Archimedes can be recreated with wood or cardboard and you can perform the arrow trick with water, paper & pen. Have a go…
Today’s focus – Art Challenge!
Try this daily challenge from TinkerLab and try to use lots of different mediums. Share your creations using #TinkerSketch @TinkerWeb
When you get to No 16, you could make the Solar System above!
- Moneysense Mondays!
Join Natwest for their fun, interactive activities.
- White Rose Maths is offering a series of maths lessons for Reception to Year 10. Videos & activities are all included!
- Age 3-11 maths games, worksheets & activities here!
- Emotions in art…
Draw how you’re feeling today with the help of this worksheet
- Deep Relaxation (& Design Your Own)
- Learn about Nutrition with the STEM Crew
- Yoga for teens
- Hip-Hop Choreography for kids (Age 4+)
Simple but definitely funky enough to get your heart rate up!
Don’t forget to follow @AllAboutSTEM on Twitter & Facebook for more.
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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