We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day celebration! talkSTEM created a 2-part blog post to share ways to get your young scientists to participate...
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Earth Day 2020: Party for the Planet: Part 1
It is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day celebration and we have loads of STEM ideas for you and your family to try! Our Earth Day celebration ideas will be...
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Designing Your At Home Curriculum #STEMActivities #OnlineTeaching
I taught my first online science teacher preparation class back in fall 2001 and my second class during summer 2002. That was when I was an Assistant Professor in the...
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Science Experiments in the Kitchen #athomeactivities #STEMEducation
In this blog post, we introduce our Watch This, Do That series where you can watch a short video from our YouTube channel and do a task (experiments in this case) that...
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New Math Game To Play At Home #IndoorActivities
At talkSTEM, we think games are a great way to engage your children in family with math – sometimes without them even realizing it! Ever play Yahtzee? What about Bingo...
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The BackStory to our Virtual Math Festival #STEM Education
Pi Day Math Festival 2018 at Sammons Park. Like so many community events scheduled in the middle of March, talkSTEM’s 4th annual Pi Day Math Festival – freely...
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Making Lemonade from Lemons: Virtual Pi Day 2020 x
Pi Day Math Festival at Sammons Park Cancelled talkSTEM and AT&T Performing Arts Center decided to host the Pi Day Math Festival VIRTUALLY instead of outside in...
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STEM Activities for Spring Break – or Anytime!
Spring break and weekends are great opportunities for parents to get children of any age (pre-K and up) to do fun yet powerful STE(A)M activities (the A is for Arts)...
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talkSTEM celebrates its 4th Annual Pi Day Math Festival to grow STEM mindsets and to develop STEM leaders in all children
talkSTEM is excited to partner with AT&T Performing Arts Center in joining UNESCO and hundreds of organizations around the world to celebrate the International Day...
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Growing STEM Mindsets: Early Childhood STEM Activities
At talkSTEM, we encourage all families and teachers to make explicit the connections between everyday life and STEM. The National Association for the Education of Young...