At Home Resources
At Home Resources
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Collaboration with families is crucial for students' success in STEAM education.
Families are able to help:
Provide Early Exposure to STEAM
Develop Positive Attitudes Towards STEAM in our Students'
Reinforce Learning
Make Cultural Connections
Build Student Confidence
3 Magic Questions
3 Magic Questions
These three questions are a great way to help begin a conversation with your learner about their STEAM experience. Use them to engage with students, who know what it may lead to! It could reveal to you something they are passionate and curious about that could be encouraged further.
1. What is one fun activity you did in STEAM class? What did you learn from it?
2. How did you figure out a problem in your STEAM class? What helped you?
3. Can you tell me how what you're learning in STEAM can help us in everyday life? Can you think of an example?
At Home Resources
At Home Resources
Scratch Jr. App
Scratch Jr. App
Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids is an educational website for children featuring engaging content on animals, science, geography, history, and the environment. It offers articles, videos, games, and quizzes that make learning fun and interactive. The site supports student learning by helping kids explore school subjects, develop critical thinking, and complete projects at home. Parents can use it to expand their children's knowledge, foster curiosity, and encourage skills in reading, problem-solving, and STEM.
NASA Kids Club
NASA Kids Club
NASA provides a safe place for children to play games as they learn about NASA and its missions. NASA encourages you to visit NASA Kids' Club and use its games and activities to inspire the next generation. On this site, you will find games of various skill levels for children pre-K through grade 4. These games support national education standards in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Robinson State Park
Robinson State Park
A local park is a great place to encourage STEM learning in kids. It offers hands-on opportunities to explore nature, from studying plants and animals to understanding basic concepts in biology and geology. Playground activities also teach engineering principles like balance and force. Parks inspire curiosity and provide a fun, active way for children to engage with science.
Agawam Library
Agawam Library
Local libraries are excellent resources for encouraging STEM learning in students. They offer a wide range of books, hands-on kits, and interactive materials that explore topics in science, technology, engineering, and math. Many libraries also host workshops, science events, and activities that engage kids in fun and educational ways. By visiting the library, families can access free, diverse resources to support curiosity and learning in STEM fields.
Clever
Clever
Clever.com is the hub that gives your child access to all of our district programs. Clever must be logged into before the sites below can be visited and MUST be click on from the Clever.com homepage to work.
Simply log in to your child's school Google account. Then click on the link in the picture to the left which will bring you to Clever.com. You will see the programs below and many more with active links to take your child on a journey of knowledge!
Brain Pop Jr.
Brain Pop Jr.
BrainPop Jr. has entertaining videos to help review topics from math to reading to science and history!
Pebble Go
Pebble Go
PebbleGo is an awesome resource to help your child research social studies and science topics at their level. PebbleGo Next has the higher level texts but since they can listen to each article, they can satisfy their curiosity there as well.
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