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Fun & creative STEM ideas for kids & families - Science, Technology, Engineering, & Maths activities for all ages

เข้าร่วม Kasım 2016
21 กำลังติดตาม27 ผู้ติดตาม
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We have such an abundance of wee flowers at the moment so we decided to get creative and use them to create some process art 🖼 There is so much language that comes with this kind of experiment: 🌸 Textures 🌸 Colours 🌸 Directions 🌸 Turn taking 🌸 Imagination #processart
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🎉 We have some exciting news 🎉 Soon we will be adding another weeSTEMer to our squad🤰🏼 Due to the upcoming arrival of baby, weeSTEMs sessions won’t be restarting in 2021 in order to allow me to continue to shield and then take a few months off with the little one 👶🏼
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🏝 Draw numbers 🏝 Play ‘Hop on the number’ (someone shouts a number and the players jump on that number. Then switch turns) 🏝 Make number shapes out of shells and stones and seaweed 🏝 Put the correct number of items into the numbered circle 🏝 Count things around you
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☄️ Role-played being scientists and engineers and astronauts whilst designing and playing with the Mars robot ☄️ Used our imagination when collecting samples from Mars to store in the cache ☄️ Edited our design when we realised things were missing/broken
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☄️Watched a documentary on how Perseverance was designed and made ☄️Used a calendar to track when it was launched and how long it’s taken to get to Mars ☄️Drew annotated diagrams of what we thought our Mars rover needs ☄️Worked together to select the best materials to create it
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♥️ Rip red paper and place into a blender ♥️ Add water & soak ♥️ Blitz into a paste ♥️ Drain through a sieve or in your hand for extra sensory play! ♥️ Mix through seeds (you could harvest your own from fruit that you have) ♥️ Shape into a love heart and leave to dry #seedbomb
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💉 Covid-19 Vaccine 💉 I have grossly oversimplified how viruses and vaccines work - however I hope this is an enjoyable activity that helps to shine a light on the very basic principles of vaccines and how they work. Head over to weestems.com/2021/01/31/how… #vaccine #covid19vaccine
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Number bonds simply means which number you’d pair (i.e. bond) with another in order to result in a specific answer (in this case 10). For example, some number bonds to 10 are: 2 + 8 = 10 3 + 7 = 10 4 + 6 = 10 Let me know if you’ve any questions!
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We used: 🐦 Birdseed (for small birds) 🐦 Lard (melted) 🐦 Cookie cutters & yoghurt pots 🐦 String 🐦 Mixing bowl & spatulas 🐦 Baking tray (for drying them on) Simply mix together the birdseed & lard and shape into anything you have to hand.
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🧊 Inspected the air bubbles inside and how they got there 🧊 Discovered ice tendrils forming on our path and explored how ice forms 🧊 Hunted for ice in other containers (buckets, tubs, holes)
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🧊 Made ice jigsaws 🧊 Weighed it and measured the thickness 🧊 Used different force to shatter it 🧊 Scientific descriptive language (temperature, melting, degrees, freezing point) 🧊 Spacial rotation to fit the pieces back together 🧊 Discussed why it floats
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