STEM STEAM Science for Kids

Submitted by kelly on Fri, 02/18/2022 - 15:19

STEM/STEAM Ideas to give fellow parents ideas for science related learning.

Items that are worth having around:

  • Cheap Microscope
  • Cheap magnifying viewer with SD-Card
  • Art Supplies and Books for coloring this is easy to find on amazon

Lego Mindstorms

Lego and the SPIKE/ Mindstorms hands on learning and logic programing and physics/motion.

Starts with Scratch and moves to Sketch and then uPython which is very approachable language

https://education.lego.com and details on the-lego-learning-system

Osmo Learning Tools

The Osmo system is a good alternative to school programs for reading, math, programming, physics. look for the hardware used as its reuseable to save cash.

https://www.playosmo.com/en/

Kiwi Crates

This company provides all age ranges of kits and ideas for monthly or one time projects

https://www.kiwico.com

Computers and IT

RaspberryPi is a powerfull PC and worth learning its use to learn linux etc.

Virtual machines and spinning up copies of windows server etc

Shopping Ideas

The following is a little list of boutique suppliers of toys and stuff

 

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