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Coding for Beginners – LEGO Algorithm STEM Activity

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-LEGO Algorithm STEM Activity Coding for Beginners - This is a great way to introduce your kids to coding!

    All week I have been sharing with your coding for beginners activities. At the beginning of the week with amazing programming and games online.  Next, we looked at offline coding games for kids that you are going to want to try right now. Then I shared an activity called ABC's of How to Read Binary that featured beads and a fun Continue Reading

STEM Coding for Kids – Cup Stacking Algorithms

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STEM Coding for Kids - Cup Stacking Algorithms Featured

Coding is a precise set of instructions a computer can understand. The instructions or steps are called an algorithm. This STEM coding for kids activity invites students at school or children at home to create a cup stacking design and record the steps needs to build it as an algorithm. I have created a printable planning and recording document for Continue Reading

ABC’s of How to Read Binary STEM Activity with Printable

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ABC's of How to Read Binary STEM Activity with Printable

  It is easy for your children at home or your students at school to learn how to read binary code. They just need to have the opportunity to have some hands-on learning. That is exactly what this How to Read Binary STEM activity will let them do. Wait! What is binary? It is the code used by a computer to understand letters, number, Continue Reading

Amazing Offline Coding Games To Try Right Now With Your Kids

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Amazing Offline Coding Games To Try Right Now With Your Kids

  Here are some amazing offline coding games and activities to try right now with your kids. They will help your children learn about binary code, building algorithms, and so much more. You will be amazed at how much even your young children will learn about coding as they explore these coding games. Coding Games for Kids Building Continue Reading

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

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