Activities for School Students at Home
4-H
4-H Inspire Kids to Do Guide
Discover 4-H STEM Camps
All Subjects
Khan Academy – online and fun lessons on subjects for kids K-12 (ALL SUBJECTS)
MSU Extension Math & Language Arts lessons to do at home – (STEM and more)
Smithsonian Learning Lab – (STEM and more) – youth grades 6-12
Art
Duplicate your drawings with a homemade machine (ART, STEM)
Make your drawing float (STEM)
Virtual Museum tours- 12 famous museums from around the world
Build
Build a paper airplane launcher (STEM)
Build a recycling sorting machine (STEM)
Build a wind powered car (STEM)
Build your own speaker – (STEM)
Chill out by making homemade slushies
Design your own phone stand – (STEM)
Lift water – build an Archimedes screw (STEM)
Make a cotton ball launcher – (STEM)
Make a marble roller coaster – (STEM)
Make elephant toothpaste (STEM)
Shaky science – build a seismograph (STEM)
Surviving the stormy seas – build a watercraft (STEM)
Coding
Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share (CODING)
4-H Code Your World (CODING – need a computer)
CS First Coding – learn to code with CS (CODING – need a computer)
Robot, make me a sandwich – (CODING) – unplugged – no computer needed, 2 people +)
Crafts
Educational Videos
Engineering
Holes that do not leak – (STEM)
Science with Your Smartphone- Make an Accelerometer- (STEM)
Sweet Earthquake structure shake (STEM)
Test the strength of hair (STEM)
Geography
Geometry
Make fun with a perimeter magic triangle (STEM)
Government
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
History
Google Historical Voyages and Events
Math
Music
NASA
Mars Rover Obstacle Course (STEM)
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) STEM – parents and educators pages
Physics
Flying stick chain reaction (STEM)
Hula hooping with a rubber band (STEM)
Reading
Science
36 Project based STEM Learning Activities (STEM)
Animal Science Anywhere – Michigan State University (Grades 6-12) (ANIMAL SCIENCE)
Ask Dr. Universe – Washington State University – (STEM and more)
Bring Science Home – Scientific American Education
Change the size of your shadow – (STEM)
Generation Genius – grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8 (STEM) – for educators and parents
Mystery Science lessons for school closure – lessons for educators and parents
National 4-H STEM Lab activities (STEM)
Science with a smartphone – Decibel meter (STEM)
Science with a smartphone – measure light with Lux
Slime art – what to do with slime that has dried out (ART)
Steve Spangler Science – science experiments for kids (STEM)
Teaching science when you don’t know diddly squat science lessons -Michigan State University
Vanderbilt STEM lessons – middle school