{"id":512,"date":"2025-09-04T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youngnnovatdev.wpenginepowered.com\/wintergarden\/2025\/09\/04\/steam-learning-at-home-activities\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:13:59","slug":"steam-learning-at-home-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/younginnovatorsacademy.com\/wintergarden\/2025\/09\/04\/steam-learning-at-home-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"STEAM Learning at Home Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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STEAM Learning at Home Activities helps parents\u00a0transform an ordinary day into an extraordinary one.<\/p>

STEM learning<\/a> concepts do not have to be intimidating. You just need to gather a few materials around the house to learn fun facts about basic engineering concepts and the basics of optics with a DYI binocular activity.<\/p>

What you’ll need<\/strong><\/p>

Binoculars, recyclable materials (toilet rolls) yearn, scissors, strings, crayons and your STEAM journal<\/p>

How to do it:<\/strong><\/p>

1-) Begin a conversation by asking your child, \u201cWhat would we need to help see far-away things more clearly?<\/p>

2-)\u00a0 Allow your child to look closely at binoculars. Start a conversation about how they work and the materials.<\/p>

3-) Introduce the word magnify to describe how we can make faraway objects look more real. Look up images or videos about binoculars to learn more about the engineering concepts behind the activity.<\/p>

4).\u00a0 Plan and sketch your first design and then discuss materials to use to built your first binoculars.<\/p>

5). Decorate your binoculars.<\/p>

You are ready to go on your first imaginary safari expedition.<\/p>

Can you see faraway objects more clearly?<\/p>

This simple activity leads to many more questions to lead new learning adventures at home.<\/p>

Here are some guiding questions to help you build\u00a0 21st century learning skills, including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking,<\/p>

Questions to keep your child engaged:<\/p>

\u201cI wonder what would happen if we tried different materials.\u201d<\/p>

How about we predict and make a hypothesis about what will happen.<\/p>

Test the hypothesis by using different by using different materials and chart what you discover in your STEM Journals<\/a>.<\/p>

You can find more experiments like this one in our book\u00a0Simple Steam<\/a>, a book that helps\u00a0Simple STEAM<\/em>\u00a0helps parents realize they don\u2019t need to be engineers or scientists to support STEAM Learning at Home Activities.<\/p>

Simple STEAM<\/em>\u00a0has won the\u00a0Teachers\u2019 Choice Award for the Family 2019, and Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award 201<\/p>

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