Explore STEAM with Young Children

This 45-minute webinar shares tools and resources for incorporating STEM projects into the classroom.

This article addresses the role that simple toys like blocks and puzzles can play in providing a foundation for learning math, science and other STEM subjects.

This is a lesson plan for a play activity that offers a fun way to practice measurement skills by building a house for a toy or for a favorite fictional character like the Cat in the Hat!

Many parents wonder what age their children should begin learning STEM. This article stresses that it is never too early to begin teaching STEM to children.

In a demo (video) at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties — by lighting up LEDs, spinning motors, and turning little kids into circuit designers.

This documentary shares information about including children with disabilities in STEM learning opportunities.

This provide two simple ways to encourage prediction skills to work as a scientist. Help the child begin to see the connection between what they do as a reader and what they can do as a scientist.

This resource includes videos and games for children relating to science, engineering, and mathematics. There are also activity ideas for teachers and parents to do with your children.

Jigsaw puzzles are a fun and relaxing activity for families with young children to do together. But puzzle play offers even more than this. Puzzles are an opportunity for young children to explore key early math concepts, including shapes, sizes, and how and where one puzzle piece fits with another to make pictures or designs.

Picture books can be an opportunity to develop children’s math and reading skills at the same time. These storybook guides help parents and caregivers talk about math with their children while reading together.

In this blog, the author describes a classroom project in which children work in groups to build scribbling machines. This project emphasizes science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and other developmental areas.

This article encourages families to let kids get messy by incorporating STEM activities into a day at the beach. These suggestions could also be used in a sandboxes, ponds, or other bodies of water available to families.

This video includes information about early math development in infants and toddlers and strategies caregivers can take to support math learning by integrating early math concepts and skills into everyday teaching practices.

This shares four ways to encourage creativity in young children. Fostering a creative spirit will give your child experience identifying a problem and coming up with new ideas for solving them.

This resource explains each subject of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) and how children engage in each subject as they grow.