STEM
STEM Resources for the activities you may have tried at the 2024 Girl Scout STEM conference at Chemeketa Community College.
Category: Classroom Clues
Ideas, strategies, and resources that can make teaching easier and more efficient.
Precipitation Patterns
Introduce precipitation patterns for the states of Washington, Oregon, or California.
Color a worksheet or a bookmark and add notes or print a color worksheet or bookmark and add notes.
Compare the precipitation patterns in the 50 US States
Use resources to introduce the precipitation patterns for North and South America including creating a simple flip book.
Use additional resources in this post to enrich your science unit.
Work and Simple Machines
I just posted a great product with resources, including: fun activities, presentations, math worksheets with delightful illustrations, puzzles, a word wall in both English and Spanish, and a simple assessment, and a web page with much more.
I’m sharing some of the best engineering suggestions here.
Click on the title to find much more!
Tic Tac Toe and More!
A familiar game with a new twist.
Use very simple materials to meet the challenge of figuring out strategies for moving markers to get three in a row.
Good luck!
Logic Puzzles
Use your detective skills to solve a Brain Box puzzle. Charts help you get started solving each mystery.
Use the clues provided by the Brainbashers site to piece together what actually happened at an event, gathering, or contest.
What to Do?
What to do if your child needs something to consider while waiting for the online class to start?
Need word puzzles that can be solved in a few moments of spare time or pondered for a day?
I’ve collected math and word puzzles just for you!
Simple Science at Home – Static Electricity
You might be familiar with the activity that moves your hair even if no one is touching it! Simply rub a balloon on a soft paper towel, cotton or wool shirt, and bring it near a person’s hair.
It helps if the person has fine hair, my husband’s is GREAT so I often draft him for this demonstration. He just loves it! ????
If you want more suggestions for playing around with static electricity while we wait out this virus event, here are suggestions from the Exploratorium.
Enjoy!
Simple Science at Home – More Bubbles!
I recently posted suggestions from Steve Spangler for bubbles.
My niece called for a bubble recipe as she played with her almost two-year old son and I thought it can be such a fun activity I’d find more resources for you.
Just like my last blog, my source is the Exploratorium Museum
I listed activities from simple materials to uncommon materials like dry ice.
Simple Science at Home – Light
One of my favorite science museums in the world is the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
They have been very generous and posted what they call snacks that feature simpler ways of creating many of the displays you’ll find at their fabulous museum.
I would like to share a few with you that focus on the topic of light.
Simple Science at Home – Pressure
Here’s the fifth in a series of fun, at home resources
I want to share from SteveSpanglerScience.com.
He’s posting fifty experiments for fifty days starting yesterday 3/23/20. Check them out!
I picked activities that worked for a variety
of ages and with simple materials you might find at home.
I suggest many extensions to challenge
kids as they do science (and make the activity
take a bit longer).