by Paige Barnes | Dec 5, 2017 | STEM Experiments & Activities, STEM News
This project fits beautifully as part of our list of winter-themed STEM activities and can be used with all different ages/grade levels. Use balloons (decorated as reindeer) that are taped to a straw on a “zipline” for younger students, and use decorated...
by Paige Barnes | Dec 5, 2017 | STEM Experiments & Activities, STEM News
This is especially fun with younger kids, but even older ones will love it. There a few recipes for fake snow, so one way to incorporate a cross-curricular lesson is to make all the recipes and see which is the best; use charts and graphs to show results, and then...
by Paige Barnes | May 30, 2017 | Colorado, Houston, STEM Experiments & Activities
(If you haven’t already, read our first post about Cross-Curricular STEM Challenges.) A CS lesson on human interface design using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Younger students may require an explanation of interface). Think about the droids in Star Wars as...
by Paige Barnes | May 30, 2017 | Colorado, Houston, STEM Experiments & Activities
STEM requires problem solving, and problem solving requires a broad spectrum of thought. Because their brains haven’t been conditioned to think in a vacuum, many times young students can tackle problems that have stumped engineers. Because of this, we at Energy...
by Paige Barnes | Dec 5, 2016 | Colorado, Houston, STEM Experiments & Activities
Most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, but usually it’s the students who struggle with “exploration”. We have created a a post with ideas, activities, and experiments geared toward exploration, and here is one of those,...
by Paige Barnes | Dec 5, 2016 | Colorado, Houston, STEM Experiments & Activities
Most STEM teachers know the importance of letting students explore, but usually it’s the students who struggle with “exploration”. We have created a a post with ideas, activities, and experiments geared toward exploration, and here is one of those,...
