Stay-at-Home STEM Resources

With schools closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, many parents are trying to provide learning resources for their restless kids. And some parents don’t have the time, energy or resources to plan lessons. So even if you only have a few minutes to spare, the WIS Outreach and Education Committee thought you’d like this list of online STEM learning resources for kids. Check out the links below for fascinating videos, at-home experiments, DIY science projects, interactive games, science coloring pages and more. Have a little fun and get your science on! 

General Science

photo credit: NOVA Labs PBS

• PBS Kids CyberChase Activities
• PBS Zoom Activities
• NOVA Labs (for ages 13-18)
• STEM Works Activities
• Crash Course (high school)
• Ology – American Museum of Natural History
• Exploratorium
• California Science Center – Stuck at Home Science
• Frost Science Museum’s Frost Science@Home
• Crazy Aunt Lindsey
• MakerMaven
• SciShow Kids
• SciShow Tangents podcast
• Kinetic City
• An entire list of awesome STEM resources for kids from @500womensci

Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Astronomy/Space

• Access Mars – Curiosity Rover
• NASA Kids’ Club
• Skylight videos from AMNH’s Hayden Planetarium
• Smithsonian’s Air and Space Anywhere
• CIT’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Teachable Moments (“Bringing NASA into the Classroom”)

Engineering

• Engineering, Go For It! (American Society for Engineering Education)
• EiE – Museum of Science, Boston – Engineering at Home
• TryEngineering

Botany

• Simple Plant Experiments for Kids
• Botany Depot

Coding

• Code
• Free #CodeFromHome activities for download
• Computer Science Education Week – Hour of Code Activities

Animals

Feathers, photo credit: askabiologist.asu.edu

• Ranger Rick – National Wildlife Federation
• Oregon Zoo
• Harbor WildWatch

COVID-19

• New York Academy of Sciences - Combating COVID-19 (for ages 13-17)

STEM Coloring Pages

• Rachel Ignotofsky
• Ask a Biologist
• Engineering
• Crayola Science
• #typesofscientists