Minds in Motion - home activities
Free STEM experiments for elementary ages and more
Each week, Minds in Motion at the University of Calgary will be sharing five STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities for students to do at home.
Our goal is to keep our community strong together and our youths minds in motion during this unprecedented time. We hope you'll enjoy this week's free, fun, at-home STEM activities!
These activities are geared towards elementary school aged children, but can be adapted to other grade levels.
Other STEM at-home resources K-12 can be found here: https://actua.ca/en/resources/
Our young scientists try out the Egg Drop Experiment
Holiday Activities
Chromatography
Bird Beak Challenge
DIY Spacesuit
Egg Staining Experiment
Bridge Building Experiment
Molecules Activity
Week 6 Activities
Floating Boats
Windmills Activity
Windmills Activity
Week 5 Activities
Coding Cups
Design Your Own Insect
Magic Milk
Week 4 Activities
- Binary Bingo
- Human Body Poster
- Oobleck! The strange liquid solid
- Paper Plate Sundial
- Senses Scavenger Hunt
Oobleck!
Human Body Poster
Senses Scavenger Hunt
Week 3 Activities
- Bubble-ology
(blowing homemade bubbles) - Cracking the Code to Encryption
- Creating Craters
- Newspaper Chair Challenge
- Zip Zip Hooray! (build a zipline)
Bubble-ology
Newspaper Chair Challenge
Zip Zip Horray!
Week 2 Activities
- Scratching the Surface
(kids intro to coding) - Egg Drop
- Germ Bread
- Salt Crystals
- Baking Soda Bottle Rockets
Egg drop
Salt Crystals
Bottle rocket
Week 1 Activities
Leaf rubbing
Rube Goldberg Machine
Rube Goldberg Machine