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77 Simple STEM Activities for Families

 Take a walk in the  Create a stop-motion video  Watch a sporting event and
backyard using LEGOS or clay keep statistics
 Go to a museum  Read a biography of a  Plant a garden
 Buy something at a garage scientist  Weed a garden & identify
sale & take it apart  Watch an episode of How the weeds
 Fix a broken toy (instead of Its Made  Go rock hunting
throwing it away)  Use a magnifying glass to  Design & build mini boats
 Take a calculator to the search the ground for bugs to float down a river
grocery store & find the  Use a magnifying glass to  Visit a farm
best prices start a fire  Start a business
 Use a big cardboard box to  Read the news & look for  Build a solar oven & cook
create a rocketship numbers something
 Play a card game that  Read the news & look for  Make a time-lapse video of
involves numbers science something in nature
 Play Connect 4  Interview a Senior Citizen  Make a green screen video
 Play Checkers about their experiences  Play Monopoly
 Play Chess with STEM  Look at the stars
 Get an old microscope &  Learn to use a compass  Try origami
look at stuff (either kind)  Draw a picture using only
 Plant some seeds & record  Make art using leaves circles, triangles, &
their growth  Fix a bike rectangles
 Pop the hood & look at a  Ask a friend who owns a  Take pictures of all the
car’s engine business for a tour shapes in your house
 Create your own board  Do a science simulation on  Build something using
game www.phet.colorado.edu popsicle sticks or pipe
 Make the best LEGO  Create something using cleaners
car/building/ship ever www.instructables.com  Count all the money in your
 Take pictures of nature &  Search YouTube for “King change jar
turn them into postcards of Random” and try one of  Learn to type
 Make slime or goo or his projects  Look for numbers while
oobleck  Watch Big Hero 6 driving in the car
 Bake a cake or cookies  Watch Swiss Family  Make a raft from empty
from scratch Robinson water bottles & jugs
 Learn to recognize trees  Put together a puzzle  Build something using
from their bark  Make your own puzzle pulleys
 Learn to code games using  Invent something  Build something using
Scratch  Make a “How-To” video gears
 Figure out how much paint  Have a paper airplane  Use a lever to lift
is needed to paint a room competition something heavy
 Make a blueprint of your  Play Yahtzee  Build an hourglass
house  Visit an antique shop  Weave something
 Watch Mythbusters  Build a survival shelter in  See who can cut out the
 Make your own the woods most creative snowflake
“Mythbusters”  Go camping  Build a Rube Goldberg
Machine

Chris Woods @dailySTEM

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