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SET
Race or collaboratively find a SET of three cards where each attribute (color, shape, number, and shading) is either all the same value or all different values on each card. SET builds cognitive, logical, and spatial reasoning skills as well as visual perception skills while playing a game. How to Play SET Video Tutorial on…
Read MoreGames for STEM
STEMAZing games develop spatial reasoning, strategy, problem solving, collaboration, communication skills and more.
Read MorePhysics Ring and Chain Trick
NOT MAGIC! Can you master the physics ring and chain trick? Check out the document below the video for directions and info about where to get your own rings and chains by the 100. Don’t want 100? We sell them for $1 each plus shipping if you are out of town. Use our contact form…
Read MoreNewspaper Dowel Construction
Roll newspaper pages into dowels to create all kinds of structures.
Read More$1 Solar Garden Light Hack
Hack this $1 Solar Garden Light to get a solar panel, high-intensity LEDs, a rechargeable battery, battery holder, and sometimes a switch.
Read MoreBalloon-Powered Car
These #STEMontheCheap balloon powered cars are another engineering design challenge that allows for iteration through the engineering design process.
Read MoreSpacetime Simulator
You can make your own or borrow one from The STEMAZing Project if you attended this workshop. The spacetime simulator demonstrates how Einstein described gravity – masses warping spacetime and drawing other masses into the gravity wells they create.
Read MoreR.A.F.T. Resource Area for Teaching
Resource Area for Teaching has loads of Idea Sheets which you can search through for exceptional, #STEMontheCheap ideas like Design Inspirations.
Read MorePepper’s Pyramid Projector
Turn your cell phone or tablet into a 3D hologram-like projector using plastic you would normally recycle. Reuse flat clear plastic to give this old physics trick a high tech twist. Less ecologically friendly, but good if you want to make a bunch of projectors, you can print templates onto transparencies and cut them out…
Read MoreBuzz Off, from RAFT
Buzz Off, when whirled around, makes a sound like an insect. A fantastic project for engineering the way it performs by making modifications to the original design.
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