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Amazing Programming Games and Activities Online for Kids

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Amazing Programming Games and Activities Online for Kids - Check Out This Amazing List of Sites for Explore with Your Kids

I am getting ready to do a presentation at the Upstate Technology Conference on coding off and online.  Today I want to share with you some online programming games I have found. There are a number of programming games and activities online for kids available online. Guess what!? Some of them are free and amazing! Here are some of the free Continue Reading

STEM Activity- Do Crackers Make Good Pinhole Lens?

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STEM Activity- Do Crackers Make Good Pinhole Lens

  Last week I share with you how to make a pinhole camera made from an oatmeal container and a camera obscura out of a cereal box.While I was researching eclipse activities, I came across a wonderful set of activities on a blog called El Navagate . One of the ideas was to have children look at the world through the holes of a cracker as Continue Reading

STEM Sunscreen Experiment – Spray vs. Lotion

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STEM Sunscreen Experiment - Spray vs. Lotion

Last week I shared with you several eclipse activities and crafts. An oatmeal container pinhole camera was shared last Monday. Then I shared with you a total eclipse paper plate craft. Finally, I shared with you how to make a camera obscura out of a cereal box. When I was brainstorming activities to share with you this week, I still had blocking Continue Reading

Eclipse Viewer – Camera Obscura Made From a Cereal Box

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Eclipse Viewer - Camera Obscura Made from a Cereal Box : It is easy to put together.

Earlier in the week, I showed you how to make a pinhole camera with an oatmeal container and a STEAM solar eclipse paper plate craft. If you have young children, it is a little bit easier to make then the camera obscura it. Your children will probably notice that the cardboard is thicker on the oatmeal container. The cardboard on the camera obscura Continue Reading

Sun and Moon Crafts- Total Solar Eclipse Painted Paper Plates

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Sun and Moon Crafts Total Eclipse Painted Paper Plates

  We live right in the path of the total solar eclipse taking place in August of 2017. I know that some of you are too! Before the eclipse, you might want to do some eclipse related activities with your children. Earlier I shared with you a simple way to create pinhole camera out of an oatmeal container and a camera obscura out of a cereal Continue Reading

How to Make an Oatmeal Container Pinhole Camera for Eclipses

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How an Oatmeal Container Pinhole Camera for Eclipses

  We happen to live in a wonderful area to see the total eclipse in August.  It will be so exciting to watch it. You can't look directly at the sun during an eclipse. You can use a pinhole camera or camera obscura to watch it. Today I am sharing with you how to make a pinhole camera. Later in the week, I will share with you how to make a Continue Reading

LEGO Braille Alphabet – Three Blind Mice STEM Activity

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LEGO Braille Alphabet -Three Blind Mice STEM Activity : This is a fun way to explore Braille.

  I  was reading about a set of Braille bricks created for literacy and inclusion for blind children. That got me thinking about how our children might like exploring the Braille alphabet with traditional LEGO. While they could explore all the letters individually, but it might be fun to try to create words with LEGO. That leads me to think Continue Reading

Let’s Explore Math Concepts! Preschool Patterns with LEGO

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Let's Explore Math Concepts! Preschool Patterns with LEGO - Exploring the AB pattern

Patterning is something that children will be exploring over and over again as they grow up. There are so many math, science, and language patterns that they will encounter.  This simple math activity was designed to use LEGO to explore preschool patterns. I am going to share with you a I am going to share with you an activity that explores AB Continue Reading

STEM Engineering- Houses for the Three Pigs with LEGO

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Your children will have a great time doing a STEM engineering project based on a familiar fable. It is always fun to take something familiar like the Three Little Pigs and create something based on it.  This STEM engineering project is based on the original version of the tale. You could adapt it to work with other versions of the story if you Continue Reading

Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO

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Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with LEGO

Last week I started sharing some ocean themed printables with you.  Today I have some ocean themed counting worksheets to share with you. They were designed to be used with LEGO, but you could easily use a variety of counting materials with them. You will find a list of counting materials listed later in this post. Ocean Themed Counting Continue Reading

Magnetic Games for Kids- Pipe Cleaner Fireworks in a Jar

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Magnetic Games for Kids- Pipe Cleaner Fireworks in a Jar : This activity has a serious of magnet games for your children to play with this jar.

Your students in class or children at home with love exploring these magnetic games for kids. They all feature a magnet wand and a jar filled with pipe cleaner fireworks. Some of them are really easy and would be great for young children. Some of the magnetic games will tricky and may take some concentration. They would be better suited for older Continue Reading

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