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Weekend STEM Activities for Families
With the weekend upon us, many have self-isolated themselves with their families due to remote work and learning and to stay safe and healthy as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold. We have have been inspired by how many of you have balanced learning, down time, and work in our new reality. Today, we wanted to quickly share with you some ideas and resources you could consider adding to your weekend plans!
Happy Friday everyone! With the weekend upon us, many have self-isolated themselves with their families due to remote work and learning and to stay safe and healthy as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold. We have have been inspired by how many of you have balanced learning, down time, and work in our new reality. Today, we wanted to quickly share with you some ideas and resources you could consider adding to your weekend plans!
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology): Launch rockets, build a hovercraft, create a winning science fair project and more! These science, technology, engineering and math activities are fun for kids, adults and the whole family!
National PTA (At Home STEM Experiments): Don’t limit the STEM fun your family has to the school – have STEM excitement at home! National PTA and Bayer have developed five hands-on science experiments families can do together for minimal costs (you probably already have all these materials at home!)
Brainchild (Netflix): Need something for the kids to watch other than YouTube? Check out the Netflix original series “Brainchild” for some great STEM content to watch together as a family. From germs and emotions to social media and more, it's the science of the world explained in a way that's refreshingly relatable.
How will you be spending this weekend with your family? What exciting STEM activities or shows do you recommend? Please share yours in the comments below! Stay safe and well everyone!
Virtual STEM Activities For Kids
With everything going on, KodeConnect wanted to continue to support the community with some fun activities your kids can do related to STEM while many of them are home. Beginning today, we’ll send along some of our favorites here at KodeConnect so that we can help keep the appetite for learning and innovating filled.
With everything going on, KodeConnect wanted to continue to support the community with some fun activities your kids can do related to STEM while many of them are home. Beginning today, we’ll send along some of our favorites here at KodeConnect so that we can help keep the appetite for learning and innovating filled.
Today let’s start with a mega list from Kids Activities Blog. This is a list of education companies offering free subscriptions. From this list, we wanted to highlight a few of our favorites:
VidCode: We love VidCode here at KodeConnect because of how easy it is to use. They have great, ready made projects for youth to jump right in (e.g. MapYourCommunity and Creating Your Own Typeface) (link: https://about.vidcode.com/hour-of-code)
MineCraft Education Edition: While MineCraft use has gone down the past few years, you can still use it for educational purposes! Using Microsoft Agent, have your youth spend a hour coding to collect data about forest fires. Learn coding basics and explore a real-world example of artificial intelligence. (link: https://education.minecraft.net/lessons/minecraft-hour-of-code/)
50 Science Activities: Science games and activities provide exciting ways to learn about how the world works. And if you’re wondering how to make learning science fun, the answer is through games, of course! Science is all about observation and experimentation. Add in a game element and your kid is sure to have fun while learning about science! Check out this list 50 science games in the areas of natural science, social science, and computer science.
Which educational activities have you planned to keep your family busy learning? Please share yours in the comments below! Stay safe and healthy!