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    Starters for STEM provides 10 easy and accessible activities for children to develop their science, technology, engineering and math skills from home. The activities include worm charming, magic magnets, an ice hunt, measuring height, building with Lego, exploring rocket mice, playing with cornflour gloop, investigating how light bends, looking inside the human body, and baking bread. If any activity sparks further interest, accompanying online resources are available but require signing up for free access. Participants are encouraged to share their work on social media with the hashtag #ScienceFromHome.

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    Starters for STEM provides 10 easy and accessible activities for children to develop their science, technology, engineering and math skills from home. The activities include worm charming, magic magnets, an ice hunt, measuring height, building with Lego, exploring rocket mice, playing with cornflour gloop, investigating how light bends, looking inside the human body, and baking bread. If any activity sparks further interest, accompanying online resources are available but require signing up for free access. Participants are encouraged to share their work on social media with the hashtag #ScienceFromHome.

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    Starters for STEM provides 10 easy and accessible activities for children to develop their science, technology, engineering and math skills from home. The activities include worm charming, magic magnets, an ice hunt, measuring height, building with Lego, exploring rocket mice, playing with cornflour gloop, investigating how light bends, looking inside the human body, and baking bread. If any activity sparks further interest, accompanying online resources are available but require signing up for free access. Participants are encouraged to share their work on social media with the hashtag #ScienceFromHome.

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    Diana Siachoque
    Starters for STEM provides 10 easy and accessible activities for children to develop their science, technology, engineering and math skills from home. The activities include worm charming, magic magnets, an ice hunt, measuring height, building with Lego, exploring rocket mice, playing with cornflour gloop, investigating how light bends, looking inside the human body, and baking bread. If any activity sparks further interest, accompanying online resources are available but require signing up for free access. Participants are encouraged to share their work on social media with the hashtag #ScienceFromHome.

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    Starters for STEM

    Starters for STEM are 10 activities that parents can use at home to help children develop their science, technology, engineering and maths skills.
    Theses activities are easy to resource and provide children with the stimulus to talk about the world around them. If you see a link you can explore how to
    extend these activities, you will need to sign up, for free, to access these materials. Don’t forget to share your work on social media
    #ScienceFromHome
    Worm charming Magic magnets
    Ice hunt How tall are you in One cup of Lego
    How many worms do feet?
    Have you got a fridge What can you build with
    you think you can charm Freeze some treasures magnet? What sorts of
    out of the ground in 5 in a block of ice in the Draw around your foot just one cup of Lego?
    things in your house are
    minutes? Does anything freezer. Now can you attracted to it? Can you onto some paper and
    help you to charm the rescue them? What is sort them? cut it out. Use your pa-
    the best way of getting www.stem.org.uk/rxfjyh per foot to find out how
    worms to the surface? many ‘feet’ tall are you?
    your treasures back?
    What about sprinkling What else can you Rocket mice
    some water on the measure?
    ground? Or dancing on As if by magic! Cut a circle shape from
    it? a piece of paper and
    Gloop! When light travels from then cut it from one
    one material to another edge to the middle.
    Put 2 tablespoons of it bends. Draw a small Human body Tape it into a cone and
    Bake some bread cornflour into a bowl and arrow pointing left or add some mouse fea-
    mix it with water until it right on a piece of pa- Have you ever won- tures. Balance your
    There is so much going seems like a very thick per. Fill a large, trans- dered what is inside the cone mouse on top of
    on ‘science wise’ in liquid. Play with it over parent glass with water. human body? Here you an empty plastic bottle.
    bread baking. What job the bowl. Stir it with a Hold the arrow behind can look inside and ex- Press down on each
    does the yeast do? Can spoon, hit it gently, put the glass of water. What plore the skeleton, the side of the bottle with
    you see the bubbles? some in your hand, roll it happens? Try this out circulation system and some force and shoot
    Why does it rise like into a ball, open up your with letters of the alpha- the digestive system. your mouse into space.
    that? What is yeast? fingers bet. Does it work with See what the key fea- What makes a differ-
    How much larger has them all? tures are and find out ence to how far your
    your dough grown whilst Is it a liquid or a solid? explori- how the parts work. mouse travels?
    it proved? www.stem.org.uk/rxxg7 fy.wellcome.ac.uk/ www.stem.org.uk/rx34f3 www.stem.org.uk/rxetug
    www.stem.org.uk/rxg5uy

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