Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Made Easy
Science
Super Science Saturday – For Families
Recommended for 3 year olds to 5th grade
Stations for each activity
Activity #1 Balloons
 Blow up Balloons
 Rub Balloons on Head
 Balloon Guy
Activity #2 Gravity
 Drop Objects
 Gravity Pull
 Standing against wall
Activity #3 Water
 Float or sink
 Penny Drops
 Absorption
Activity #4 Magnets
 Magnetic Poles
 Magnetic Treasure Hunt
 Magnetism
Materials Needed
 Need Balloons, Cardboard
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 Need Paper, pennies, balls 2 different types,
pencils unsharpened
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Activity #5 Sensory
 Mystery Feel Boxes
 Taste flavors
 Hear
 Sight
 Smell
Activity #6 Air (Engineering)
 Air spinners
 Paper Airplanes
 Parachutes
 Paper bag Windsock
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Materials Needed
Need Water, pennies, cotton balls, wax paper,
sponges, oranges, water dropper, paper clip,
stick, plates, bowl for water
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Magnets, pennies, paper clips, marbles,
matchbox cars, corn meal, plastic tub, magnetic
wands, paper fish with paper clip connected,
dowel rods, yarn
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Shoe box or larger, stuffed animal, pine cone,
book, pencil, Jelly beans, plastic cups, yarn,
mirror, flashlight, cardboard teddy bears, coffee
grounds, cinnamon, garlic powder, smashed
chocolate, lemon
Materials Needed
Paper, scissors, cardboard, tissue paper, string,
paper bags, hole punch, foam pieces.
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Made Easy
Mad Scientist Alien Autopsy – For Families
Activity #1 Vomiting Monster
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Materials Needed
Make a paper Mache volcano with a small pop
bottle and balloon week before.
Assistant to direct children to add ingredients
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Pop bottle, balloon, flour, water
Baking soda, vinegar, measuring cups, pan
Activity #2 Mad Scientist Lab Gear
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White Garbage bags cut to use as lab coats
Bow ties made out of cardboard Kids decorate
and put on using elastic string
Materials Needed
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White garbage bags, cardboard, markers, elastic
string
Activity #3 Electricity Ball
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Balloons blown up
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Activity #4 Flubber Blubber
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Materials Needed
Make flubber with corn starch and water
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Activity #5 Edible Alien
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Materials Needed
Balloons
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Make an outline of an alien with a paper mache
head.
Assemble Alien and place on table. Cover with
Sheet until it is time for Autopsy.
Make a sketch on a white board for display and
have an overhead light on with all other lights
turned off.
Proceed with autopsy and families may
Eat the various parts.
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Corn Starch, water, mixing bowl, food coloring,
zipper sandwich bags, paper towels, sink
Materials Needed
Paper mache head, arms and legs painted
green.
Marshmallow w/M&M eyes
Brain and Hands Jell-O Mold with Jell-O
Candy Corn Teeth
Celery for rib cage
Spaghetti intestines
Licorice veins
Bowls, plates, tongs,
Glass jars with colored liquid for decorations
White Sheet and Table
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Made Easy
Technology
Click Club – For 3rd through 5th graders
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This club contains challenges for our talented
young patrons to explore a variety of exciting
and safe Internet websites and to link them
with library resources.
Self Instruction
Weekly challenges
Search Assistance
Handouts for each week with directions that
lead them through the website.
Links such as:
 www.kidsclick.org
 http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
 http://pbskids.org/
 www.starfall.com - math
 http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bookflix
freetrial
 http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/
 http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub
/flash/index.html
 http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/n
asaeclips/index.html
Computer Classes- 3rd through 5th graders
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Contact College Instructors
Stop Motion Animation classes
Game Maker classes
You Tube
Website design
PBS website – Covers Technology and Math
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www.pbs.org
Home activities, group activities
Skills the activity will cover
www.pbskids.org/lab/ideas-to-go
o Shares things you can do with your
children out and about or at home.
Minecraft- www.minecraft.net
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The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow
players to build constructions out of textured cubes
in a 3D procedurally generated world.
Other activities in the game include exploration,
gathering resources, crafting, and combat.
Kids play for survival, which requires players to
acquire resources and maintain their health and
hunger; and creative, where players have an
unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and
no health or hunger.
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Made Easy
Engineering
Webliography:
http://constructionmanagementdegree.org/blog/2010
100-awesome-engineering-projects-for-kids/
http://www.biglearning.com/treasureengineering.htm
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/
Curious Kids
http://www.bubbleblowers.com/homemade.html
Activity #1 Simple Machines
 Use Lego’s levers and wheels
Ping Pong Catapult- http://science.discovery.com/topten/kids-engineering-projects/10-kids-diy-projects04.html
Activity #2 Paper Air Planes
 Use various weights of paper and airplane
designs.
Build a Birdhouse http://library.fws.gov/Bird_Publications/house.html
Activity #3 Dominoes
 Make domino rows and then topple them over.
Activity #4 Marshmallow Tower
 Use marshmallows and toothpicks to build a
tower.
Activity #5 Create with Play dough
 Use playdough to create various towers or
shapes.
Activity #6 Build with Blocks
 Use blocks to build towers
Activity #7 Ping Pong Catapult
 Use ping pongs and Rubber bands and a
wooden frame aim at bucket.
Marshmallow Towerhttp://knowitall.scetv.org/careeraisle/resources/related/ccj
an10/Marshmallow%20Tower%20Activity.pdf
Gumdrop domehttp://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.p
hys.mfe.zgumdrop/
Create with playdoughhttp://fun.familyeducation.com/sculpting/recipes/3704
0.html
Paper Airplaneshttp://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/airpla
nes.html
Egg Drop Projecthttp://www.schoolfamily.com/school-familyarticles/article/6046-egg-drop-project-introducesengineering
Create a Kaleidoscopehttp://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/SeeK/kaleid.htm
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Made Easy
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Math
Apple Festival – For Families
Activity #1 Red, Yellow, Green, Go
 Choose 10 apples that are different
colors, patterns and sizes.
 Divide the apples by color, patterns, or
sizes which ever you prefer.
 Graph the apples (Color a block for each
apple)
 Graph them in multiple ways.
Activity #2 How Many Apples?
 Pull out the apples inside each
numbered basket.
 Write down the correct number of red
and green apples that you have counted
on the answer key.
Exploration Station – For Ages 2 to 5
Numbers
Activity #1 Cheerio chart
 Use cheerios to fill a chart that is divided
up with a number inside each block.
Activity #2 Play dough numbers
 Rolls play dough into snakes to make a
number. Parents can model then child
can try.
Activity #3 Shaving Cream numbers
 Squirt a small pile of shaving cream onto
the table and spread out with hand.
 Parent writes a number then the child
copies or a parent assists them with
their finger.
Activity #4 Chalk board Numbers
 Write a number on a blackboard and
have a child write the number next to
yours.
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Write two numbers and see if they can
recognize which is which.
Materials Needed
Apple print outs or apples made with
red, green and yellow paper with
patterns and various sizes.
Graph print out.
Red, Yellow, Green and black crayons or
markers.
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Materials Needed
Red and Green apples
Real baskets or baskets made from
paper
Answer Key
Pencils
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Cheerios and chart
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Play dough or make your own
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Shaving cream
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Chalk board or white board
Dry erase markers or crayons
Or use plain paper
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Made Easy
Math
Exploration Station – For Ages 2 to 5
Patterns and Sorting
Activity #1 Sort Colors & Shapes
 Sort shapes such as circles, squares,
hearts, triangles that are in various
colors
Activity #2 Patterns
 Make patterns with the shapes by color,
shape, etc.
Activity #3 Foam Magnets
 Add magnets to back of shapes
 Magnets to take home to make patterns.
Activity #4 Cookie Sheet Math
 Make cookies that have frostings that
match. Real or fake.
 Child matches the cookies on the cookie
sheet and makes columns or rows of
matching cookies
 Show how to make patterns as well.
 Count them and talk about which one
has more, less or equal.
Activity #5 Sorting Ideas to share
 Sort laundry by color
 Sort socks by size
 Sort Rainbow Goldfish snacks
 Sort blocks by size or color
Activity #6 Fruit Loop necklace
 Make necklace with fruit loops
 Create a pattern before putting onto
yarn.
Activity #7 M&M patterns
 Use M&M’s to create color patterns
 Count them, make rows, etc.
Share books with patterns:
Allen, Pamela. Who Sank the Boat?
Carle, Eric. The Tiny Seed
Carle, Eric. The Very Busy Spider
Hoban, Tana. Dots, Spots, Speckles, and Stripes
Hutchins, Pat. The Doorbell Rang
Martin, Bill Jr. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Wood, Audrey. The Napping House
and gather data and analyze:
Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug
Kalan, Robert. Jump, Frog, Jump
Rylant, Cynthia. The Relatives Came
Young, Ed. Seven Blind Mice
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