Some STEM/STEAM Favourites

Nicki July 20, 2021 No Comments

Since undertaking “Mummy School” earlier in the year I’ve really enjoyed working on some creative STEM-related projects with my little ones. I thought I would consolidate some of our favourites here (taken from my Twitter feed to save time!).

Robotic Owl Junk Model

My 5yo son and I made a junk model owl to cheer on Owl Class and wave a flag for his house at Sports Day #microbit #stem #caschat #eyfs pic.twitter.com/SVh7hhsYR0
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) June 25, 2021

Chain Reactions

Today we've been experimenting with chain reactions!#rubegoldberg #PrimarySTEMchat #eyfs pic.twitter.com/qWU0PMgtuX
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) May 26, 2021

A chain reaction crocodile feeder! A joint effort between myself and my 5 year old son! Mostly built by him and tweaked by me!#rubegoldberg #PrimarySTEMchat #eyfs pic.twitter.com/DrBfzfQksv
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) June 9, 2021

Junk Model Dancing Monsters

Very basic addition for the #MicrobitVirtualConcert – monsters made by my 3 and 5 year olds! #microbit pic.twitter.com/5hvAOeqbC5
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) May 18, 2021

Go Robot Mouse

This little robot mouse is my new favourite toy for simple screen-free coding with my little ones! #eyfs #caschat #computing #primaryed #edtech pic.twitter.com/X7PS1sOeQT
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) April 26, 2021

Practicing Mouse Control

Today the little ones are improving their mouse skills, testing out a game I made in #Scratch – they have to pop the balloons which get faster and smaller as you progress. They loved trying to beat their previous scores!#eyfs #caschat #primary pic.twitter.com/lo0Civ5MTk
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) May 25, 2021

Fun with Minecraft

Lots of fun with our #MakeyMakey, creating a pickaxe to break blocks in #Minecraft #MinecraftEdu #primarySTEMchat #EYFS pic.twitter.com/7J1R2X3HCT
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) May 8, 2021

It's Dinosaur Week in our house and today we've had fun designing and creating #Minecraft dinosaurs!#MinecraftEdu #EYFS #primarystemchat pic.twitter.com/4UiW2V1Tux
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) May 31, 2021

Today I've been designing treasure maps to build in Minecraft with my 5yo son! Once built we're going to use our maps to find each other's treasures! #minecraft #minecraftedu #EYFS pic.twitter.com/xtauh6jcze
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) May 3, 2021

So we used a repeating command block to make it rain sheep in #Minecraft – we learned 20 blocks is too high and first attempt ended in lots of wool and lamb chops! Oops! #minecraftedu pic.twitter.com/UnERIrygeA
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) April 23, 2021

Sunflower Stop Motion Animation

I think this was our favourite homework task this term, made by my 5yo (with a little help) using Stop Motion Studio. Have a great summer everyone! #eyfs #primarySTEMchat pic.twitter.com/ZCwHUcsPf7
— Nicki Cooper (@GeekyNicki) July 20, 2021

Robot Week

And finally, of course. . . Robot Week over February Half Term was a whole week of robot-themed fun! You can read more about it here.

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