STEM in the Early Years

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🚀 Training, resources and storySTEM curriculum
👧 Nurture awe and wonder
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Allow time for your learners to reflect!

Let them ask questions, narrate their processes, describe their findings, give evidence and represent learning through models or drawings.

For more tips join my free webinar next week.

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STEM and stories

Stories are a great starting point for STEM focused learning, it motivates our young learners to explore, ask questions and solve problems.

It sparks imagination and helps children process information, stories can be up 22x more memorable than facts.

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🍂 Autumn themed STEM 🍂

1. Tape toilet roll tubes to the wall and create your own conker marble run

2. Squish up some brambles and mix it with mud...now you've got purple mud paint

3. Use your leaves and see if you can find objects indoors that match

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Focus on asking What not Why questions...

Why means they have to give an answer...

What focuses their attention to what's happening, making observations and describing what they are doing.

It starts a conversation and allows you to explore and wonder together.

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Bottle Rockets 🚀

You will need
🚀 clean milk bottles (in different sizes)
🚀 paper cones

Clap the sides of the bottle and watch it fly...

Which rocket travels furthest?

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Sand tray STEM

1. Composition
2. Wet v dry...which makes the beat sandcastle
3. Pipes and tubes to move it
4. pour through a funnel...what happens
5. Make burrows or tunnels
6. Add kitchen tools
7. Make sculptures
8. Add cars to build roads and ramps

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Attention focusing questions...

Encouraging observation is the first step in exploring the world around us, once you've done that the investigations can start!

Support your children to explore, being curious and using their senses will lead to self initiated questions...

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Do your learners love watching how objects move?

Yes?

Then they're likely to be following the trajectory schema. There are lots of ways to nurture this in STEM...

🛩 Paper Planes
🚀 Stomp Rockets
🟢 Marble runs
🚠Ziplines
🌬 Bubbles
🍭Lolly Stick Catapults

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