STEM Family Webinar

STEM Family Webinar

FREE ACCESS – Harvard’s LabXChange: Learn to Access This FREE Platform
March 30, 2020

LabXChange is a powerful platform allowing parents, teachers and students to customize science learning, taking it to new heights. The question: Given the pandemic, how can parents and teachers offer meaningful science education to their students and children? A Really, Really Good Answer: LabXchange, a Harvard initiative funded by the Amgen Foundation, is offering the best of digital science education available free […]

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Comics Non-Profit Releases 400 Pages of Comics, Lesson Plans, Activities for Teachers & Caregivers
March 25, 2020

Press Release Source: Newsarama.com Nineteen states have officially shut down all public schools due to coronavirus concerns. Educators are fighting massive odds to transition their classrooms to remote learning environments, and with the CDC suggesting closures of 8 weeks or more to be effective, students are at risk of being seperated from crucial literacy resources like libraries and computer labs […]

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STEM @ HOME – STEM TALKS
March 24, 2020

Jeff Weld, former senior policy advisor of the White House’s Office of Science Technology Policy and current executive director of the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council Listen to the podcast here.

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Exploring Sound With NASA
March 24, 2020

Sharing space at home with the entire family can be challenging with all the noise. Our friends at NASA put together a design challenge that will help you talk to your kids about how to amplify and reduce sound in your homes. These activities are for children grades 3-8 (with slight modifications). Click to download lesson and materials Click to […]

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A Family Penny Boat Challenge by the makers of Family STEM Cards
March 24, 2020

Coming up with new ideas to keep your children engaged in learning can be difficult, but what if you had a toolbox of simple task cards to help move learning forward. This webinar gave a live demonstration of an activity that came from The Family STEM Card collection, created by The Greater Cincinnati STEM Collaborative for families with children grades […]

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Marshmallow Catapults and Building a Rube Goldberg Machine
March 24, 2020

If you have a child that loves to design and build, then this lab is for you. Watch and explore the world of machines, both simple and complex. These activities are for children grades 3-8 (with slight modifications).  Click to access the PPT   Click to learn about Newton’s Road Click to learn about 4-H Youth Development

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Cabin Fever Math!
March 19, 2020

Stuck at home? How about a little hands-on math that gets kids up and moving? Long-time Ecosystem partner Bedtime Math has retooled games from their popular Crazy 8s after school club to create a suite of grab-and-go activities that families can do at home. These activities are for children grades K-8 (with slight modifications). Click to access the PPT  Click […]

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