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Your child can learn about Katherine Johnson and how her amazing math skills helped put the first men on the moon in this watch and respond activity!
Learn about the woman who transformed the face of the Kenyan landscape by starting a movement that resulted in the planting of over 30 million trees, professor and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai!
Your child can discover the life and works of one of the world’s earliest computer programmers, Ada Lovelace, in this watch and respond activity!
Introduce your child to the greatest female sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, with this video and response activity.
Introduce your child to the brilliant mathematician Hypatia in this Watch and Respond resource where your child will watch a short video and complete response questions.
Your child will be introduced to the life and works of one of the wonderful women working in the STEM field, Dr. Temple Grandin! Your child will learn about how what some people saw as her weakness, turned out to be her greatest strength!
Your children will apply S.T.E.M. skills as they work to design and build the tallest snowman that they can using paper, tape, and other similar supplies that you have at home. This lesson is designed to be engaging for the whole family! Check out the tips for suggested ways to adapt the lesson for children of different ages and experience levels along with the optional S.T.E.M. Journal.
We hear about S.T.E.M. a lot. I wanted to take some time to help our family better understand some of the key skills related to S.T.E.M. activities.
When leading S.T.E.M Classes in my home for a small group of children, I tried to come up with creative ways to invite them in to S.T.E.M. challenges. Using the foam pipe insulation as a roller coaster track allows plenty of room for creativity due to its flexibility.
Nursery rhymes are easy to use as a theme because they are recognized by a range of ages. As a homeschool Mom of 4 and ages ranging from 1 to 9, this was a fun way to have everyone included.
Nursery rhymes are easy to use as a theme because they are recognized by a range of ages. As a homeschool Mom of 4 and ages ranging from 1 to 9, this was a fun way to have everyone included.
We’ve been to a few different pumpkin patches over the years. One patch we went to had MANY pumpkins already picked and moved from the field to a sales area. We started discussing how they may have moved all of those pumpkins. I thought a story would be a fun way to invite my children to engage in this S.T.E.M. challenge.
During this lesson, children will engage in storytelling and will apply their critical thinking and S.T.E.M. skills as they use building bricks to build solutions to problems they encounter during the story.
Introduce your child to the brilliant and beautiful Hedy Lamarr with this Watch and Respond resource where your child will watch a short video and complete response questions.
In this lesson, your child will learn about the Hollywood movie stary who invented technology during WWII that is the basis for wifi, bluetooth and cell phone technology we use today! Your child will explore the life of Hedy Lamarr and her invention through books, videos and a STEM experiment involving a remote control car!