A collection of activities fostering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) skills.
Your Own Cloud Storage
Daplie: The Cloud System to Take Back the Internet
Take back your freedom to privacy, ownership, and security with your own "plug & play" home or classroom server
Daplie: The Cloud System to Take Back the Internet
Take back your freedom to privacy, ownership, and security with your own "plug & play" home or classroom server
Animation is a perfect STEM activity
Way back in 2007 Oscar Stringer motivated the world with his take on Animation (see his video below). If you've never used animation for project based learning and engaging children then you may consider Ogobild Animation from Modern Teaching Aids (MTS)
Way back in 2007 Oscar Stringer motivated the world with his take on Animation (see his video below). If you've never used animation for project based learning and engaging children then you may consider Ogobild Animation from Modern Teaching Aids (MTS)
Programable Starter Drone BUILD IT. CODE IT. FLY IT.
The first modular drone that can be turned into a hovercraft, car, and more! It does stunts through drag-and-drop programming.
The first modular drone that can be turned into a hovercraft, car, and more! It does stunts through drag-and-drop programming.
CoDrone – Programmable Educational Drone
Modern Teaching Aids CoDrone
Take drones to the next level and give your drone instructions by programming it! The CoDrone is a small and light quad-copter drone which you can easily program to do whatever you want: let CoDRone follow you around, let it go through a maze or let it perform stunts. CoDrone will amaze you, whether you are new to drones and coding or you’re a long-time drone user.
Modern Teaching Aids CoDrone
Take drones to the next level and give your drone instructions by programming it! The CoDrone is a small and light quad-copter drone which you can easily program to do whatever you want: let CoDRone follow you around, let it go through a maze or let it perform stunts. CoDrone will amaze you, whether you are new to drones and coding or you’re a long-time drone user.
App of the Month
Doodle3d
Doodle3D Transform is a new 3D app.
It makes designing in 3D really easy and fun!
Transform your 2D drawings easily into 3D designs.
You can draw by hand, scan photos or import existing images.
Send your design to a 3D-printer or upload it to an online service.
Doodle3d
Doodle3D Transform is a new 3D app.
It makes designing in 3D really easy and fun!
Transform your 2D drawings easily into 3D designs.
You can draw by hand, scan photos or import existing images.
Send your design to a 3D-printer or upload it to an online service.
Edsurge Columnist, Patricia Brown gives us a look into AR
PRIMARY SCHOOL
STEM EDUCATION BOOST
STEM Education in Primary Schools in Australia received a boost today with the commitment from Jaguar Cars as the major sponsor of the Jaguar Primary School Challenge™. This is part of Jaguar Land Rover's world-wide commitment to developing future skills in young people.
The Jaguar Primary School Challenge™ is based on the same underlying concepts and pedagogy which have made the F1 in Schools™ program so successful in High Schools. Jaguar Cars have been a supporter of F1 in Schools™ since its launch in 2000.
The Jaguar Primary School Challenge™ is open to students aged 5-11 years old (years K-6) and involves designing and manufacturing the fastest car possible from cardboard, emulating the design and engineering processes employed by real engineering companies, such as Jaguar Cars.
For more information about the Jaguar Primary Schools Challenge CLICK HERE
STEM EDUCATION BOOST
STEM Education in Primary Schools in Australia received a boost today with the commitment from Jaguar Cars as the major sponsor of the Jaguar Primary School Challenge™. This is part of Jaguar Land Rover's world-wide commitment to developing future skills in young people.
The Jaguar Primary School Challenge™ is based on the same underlying concepts and pedagogy which have made the F1 in Schools™ program so successful in High Schools. Jaguar Cars have been a supporter of F1 in Schools™ since its launch in 2000.
The Jaguar Primary School Challenge™ is open to students aged 5-11 years old (years K-6) and involves designing and manufacturing the fastest car possible from cardboard, emulating the design and engineering processes employed by real engineering companies, such as Jaguar Cars.
For more information about the Jaguar Primary Schools Challenge CLICK HERE
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How To Make Rope From Grass
Ever thought how you'd tie logs together and make a raft if you were stranded on a desert island? This ancient method of creating it produces very good results. Why not learn how to make rope? Published on Sep 7, 2015 NightHawkInLight (ACSSU074) |
How to Make a Paper Airplane
SciShow Kids Published on Sep 14, 2015 Learn how to make a great paper airplane, and find out what makes it fly! |
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Paper Roller Coasters
The Ultimate Paper Roller Coaster featured below is the brainchild of Andrew Gatt the creator of http://paperrollercoasters.com/ For a few dollars you can purchase your own set of templates (electronically) from Andrew and work in teams to experience physics through success and failure when you investigate energy, friction, gravity, velocity and acceleration. I've tried this and be aware it takes some hours to complete a successful model. My girl teams always shine in an activity perfect for year sixes. |
Blooms: Strobe-Animated Sculptures from Pier 9 PRO 9 months ago / via Dropbox ALL AUDIENCESBlooms designed by John Edmark.
These 3-D printed sculptures, called blooms, are designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers. For this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) in order to freeze the spinning sculpture. Visit John's website here: JohnEdmark.com and Vimeo site: vimeo.com/johnedmark/videos To learn how blooms are made visit: instructables.com/id/Blooming-Zoetrope-Sculptures/ |
Coding - start from Scratch
Scratch Overview from ScratchEd on Vimeo.
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STEM Stories
Exploring Space with Shape Shifting Robots
Published on Oct 2, 2015Alice Agogino's lab at the University of California, Berkeley and Vytas SunSpiral's team at the Dynamic Tensegrity Robotics Lab at NASA Ames Research Center are developing what could be the next generation of space exploring robots. And these robots are inspired by a baby toy of all things. |
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Google X Roboticist Speaks Out on Tech’s Gender Crisis
Published on Aug 17, 2015 In the first episode of Re/code's new video series, “The 26%: Women Speak Out on Tech’s Diversity Crisis,” Leila Takayama of Google X discusses her early days at robotics pioneer Willow Garage, the importance of diverse perspectives in product design and how she has tackled subtle or explicit gender discrimination in her career. |
Google Street View (Minus The Car) - #NatAndLo Ep 1
Published on Jul 14, 2015 Learn how Google Street View gets off the streets and into some of the crazier places it goes – like the Grand Canyon, |
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How Do Google[x] Projects Get Started? - #NatAndLo Ep 2
Published on Jul 14, 2015 SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/CEsJyN | TWEET: http://ctt.ec/53x52 | #natandloAs the saying goes...you’ve got to break it ‘til you make it. Or at least that’s what we learned when we visited Gabby (a hardware engineer and member of Google[x]’s Rapid Evaluation Team) to see how she prototypes and stress tests ideas in the Google[x] Design Kitchen. |
PA Googler's 20% Project To Ban Elephant Ivory Shopping Ads - #NatAndLo Ep 6
Published on Sep 10, 2015 SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/CEsJyN | TWEET: http://ctt.ec/91QJa | #natandlo Nat and Lo were curious to know what other Googlers have done as 20% projects, which led us to Winnie. (Spoiler alert: she’s a huge animal lover / fashion wearer.) And a few years ago, she started a 20% project to remove and automatically ban elephant ivory ads from Google Shopping. |