Looking for STEAM activities to challenge your children? I designed 30 STEAM activities presented as stimulus prompt cards. They engage and challenge my children as they explore concepts in S cience, T echnology, E ngineering, A rt and M ath. STEAM activities take STEM activities to the next
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Learn how to make a square bubble that mimics tensile structures. This bubble cube can also be made in other geometric shapes!
STEM Challenge- After experimenting with bubbles, students design & build a wand to blow bubbles. Includes tips and hints for creating the bubbles and wands!
Preschoolers learn about insulation and how some materials insulate better than others.
We are exploring magnets here in kindergarten! We sorted objects between magnetic and not magnetic. I wanted the kids to be able to glue down their sort to display in the hallway. You could use tape or regular glue, but in the interest of time I opted for a glue gun. This SUPER cool temp glue gun (you have to buy special glue sticks but they are not expensive) eliminates the worry over burns! But like I said, tape works too. We have some magnet sorting in our science station
This hands-on math activity is perfect for teaching symmetry to preschoolers and young kids. It makes learning symmetry fun and playful!
STEM Challenge- After experimenting with bubbles, students design & build a wand to blow bubbles. Includes tips and hints for creating the bubbles and wands!
These free printable fractions colouring sheets are such a clever way to help children see the relationships between fractions. Try these STEAM activities to help your children understand how fractions work by combining art and math. Fractions printables to color in These colour-in fractions sheets are so clever! They let children really see […]
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The beauty of Scratch Jr is its simplicity. Children use a range of image-based blocks to instruct characters/objects (known on Scratch as sprites) to move and interact on screen. This image-based block approach means its accessible to EAL, SEN and non-readers; so all abilities can access and achiev
How to make Grass Heads. Mr Grass Head Craft. How to make a grass head. Spring Science for Preschool. Spring Crafts KS1 and Ks2. KS1 STEAM ideas for Summer. Garden Crafts. Grass Head Crafts. Grow your own grassheads. Educational Spring Crafts Elementary School. Grasshead DIY. Grass head doll. diy grass head. Grass seed
Use the Binary Alphabet for this fun binary code Christmas Ornament for Christmas coding activities your kids will love.
Can you build a log pile house for a snake? Set up a STEAM building challenge inspired by The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson.
Activities using Venn diagrams to help kids develop advanced sorting and categorizing skills.
Ton Schulten is one of my all time favorite artists! I discovered him years ago when I found a calendar full of his paintings when visiting the Toledo Museum of Art. I was hooked! I love his amazing colors and abstract style. I created a Prezi of his landscape and cityscapes to share with my classes, (Ton Schulten Prezi). I find it very interesting how he adds lots of vertical lines to his landscapes, a composition usually created with more horizontal lines. This lesson was a COLOR VALUE lesson. Students used pre-mixed colors and various TINTS to paint in city buildings. The students mixed their own tints of blue for the sky portion. The last step, we used India Ink to outline and decorate our city buildings. This was a great lesson for every student. It was hard to chose which ones to photography! They will look great later in a group hanging in our hallways!
With water, coffee filters, markers, and the free Leaf Template, kids can make a colorful Leaf Craft with this COOL and CREATIVE art project with a STEAM twist.
STEM Challenge- After experimenting with bubbles, students design & build a wand to blow bubbles. Includes tips and hints for creating the bubbles and wands!
Decorating autumn fall leaves: fun STEAM (or STEM + Art) idea: learning about nature and leaf biology. Aren’t these autumn leaves wonderful! We discovered a HUGE maple tree last autumn. The girls played in the sea of orange and brown leaves, and we collected a few to take home. Autumn leaves like this are such …
Find out how to do this hands on acid and base experiment to help your children enjoy learning. See how they can learn in the outdoors and through play!
28 engaging hands-on STEM activities that use recylced and craft materials for a home, library, or classroom makerspace
Opportunities for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) learning are all around us. Here is one of my favorite activities for teaching about
I tried out a new STEAM lesson that combined learning about food chains while making art. I introduced this lesson with a Prezi: http://prezi.com/pim43kss-493/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share We used national geographic magazines to find pictures of animals to help create our collage. The students pre planned everything out in their sketchbooks before starting on their food chain collage. Here are a few examples of our final projects! I love how they turned out and the creativit
Plenty of interactive ideas and activities to teach landforms for kids. Find videos, worksheets and even experiments to help.
Projects described in books or shown on Youtube seem absurdly easy, but I have yet come across a project that didn't need any tinkering before I could take it into a classroom. This one isn't too bad, but it still took me longer than I expected. I came across this robotic hand project on Youtube as well as teachengineering.org (I think), but when I tried to build it, it took me almost two hours to work out the kinks. Sure, I did have to try several different versions and had to make adjustments as I went along, but I'm not sure if this is something I can take directly into a classroom of 2nd graders without more tinkering. BUT... I think it'll be fun to try it with my kids. Supplies Needed: Cardboard paper or cardstock paper Standard drinking straws (Dollar Store variety is fine) Pearl drink straws or bigger diameter straws Tape Yarn or twine Project Instructions (as of now): Trace your hand on a cardboard or cardstock paper. Cut the traced hand out (cutting it a little bigger than the actual tracing). Mark your finger joints on the cutout. Draw straight or curved line across it. Fold the fingers at the lines. Cut smaller straws to size (leave a little gap between the lines to facilitate in threading the yarn). Tape straw pieces to the hand. Thread yarn through the straw pieces. Each finger will have a length of yarn of its own. Thread all five pieces of yarn through the bigger straw. The writing on the hand has nothing to do with this project. I was recycling a stack of cardstock paper, and this one came out the best. The threading part was difficult. If I had a big needle for the yarn, it would have made it easier, but I didn't. So, I struggled with it. If I do go forward with this one, I think I'll have to buy big plastic needles for this project. The backside of the robotic hand. I had grand plans for making a sleeve that will cover the arm, but I'm not sure I'll be able to build all of that in an hour let alone a 2nd grader. So, I might still try it, but I probably won't take it into the classroom. If I were doing this in a classroom, I think I'll buy different colored yarns for each finger, so the students will know which finger they are trying to move. With the same colored yarns, it was difficult to figure out which end went with which finger. I'll try to get my kids to make it soon, and post the results. In the meantime, why don't you give it a try? I spent two hours doing it, but it didn't feel like two hours. So, at the end of the day, if you enjoyed it, does it matter how long it takes? Unless, of course, you only have an hour of school science project time. Have a great day and have fun! P.S. - If you have any ideas about making this project more 2nd grader friendly, please let me know. Thanks!
30+ engineering STEM challenges with simple materials. Kids can tinker with bridges, catapults, boats, and more using recycled and inexpensive materials.
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Last week's second grade art lesson was all about shape. Facts about shapes: they are flat, they are made from "closed" lines, some have names (triangle, square, circle). Shapes that have names are called geometric. Shapes that don't have names are called organic or irregular shapes. Then I introduced the kids to Piet Mondrian, Dutch
Waldorf inspired multiplication crafts. Multiplication circles, multiplication flowers and weaving.
If you have blocks in your house, you need to try out these STEM building challenges with kids! Printable challenge cards available.
