For most students, school’s out (or almost out)! And that means it’s time to plan for what summer activities
should be on schedule. What should you do to keep your kids from the
summer slide
and regressing academically on their summer break?
Traditionally,
as the designated family vacation time, summer travel was a great way
to teach kids about geography, culture and history. But what about
getting your
kids to invest a little bit in learning STEM, the hard sciences and
math skills that are so important to quality academics and careers?
Not
to worry, summer can be a great time to get you kids - especially young
ones - to learn science, math and computer skills – especially while
road tripping. And
with new, highly successful gamification learning and apps, most kids
don’t even know they are learning computer coding or physics.
Finding
and using a few of these STEM-based, maker movement compatible games
and activities can absolutely stall the summer learning slide and may
even give your
kids a leg up next year or even further down the road.
While
you may want to spend a few minutes searching computer and STEM
learning activities for the summer, here are a few ideas and options to
get you started. Many
of these are free - or less than $6.
1. Lego Education - get kits for hands-on building mechanized robots and other tech and engineering marvels using Legos. And much,
much more.
2. Simple Physics - an app that allows kids to build things such as skyscrapers and bridges using real physics and engineering and
calculating cost considerations.
3. Blokus - an easy, kid-focused app based strategy game that rewards strategic decision making and spatial awareness.
4. Tynker - introduce kids to the basics of computer coding with the leading app and learning platform for coding for kids.
5. Orienteering - an outside, map-based logic sport and game that's more than a century old - teaching map skills and navigation.
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