Since learning doesn’t (or shouldn’t) stop in the summer time, last year I worked with a group of bloggers to put together a great Summer Camp at Home Series. I’ve decided to continue with this series this year and share even more resources and tools to help parents find fun ways to keep the learning growing while the kids are out of school.
How To Run your Own STEM Camp At Home
STEM, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, is such a major focus in schools and now even more so in my home, as it is such an integral part of my kids’ learning and development. I share a bunch of STEM tools that we personally use here and I can tell you that utilizing the products I recommend have made such a huge difference for my girls. These fun and hands-on approaches to STEM learning have helped them tremendously with thinking critically, creating, designing, and making meaningful connections between their schoolwork and personal interests.
Steve Spangler Science has just introduced a simple STEM Camp Kit for parents to utilize at home either just for your own kids or for however many kids you want. So, whether you’re having a little fun with your kids, running a homeschooling co-op, or enterprising to create your our own summer camp at home, this is the perfect solution.
The Steve Spangler STEM Camp consists of five days of activities per pack. You decide on the number of children you are training and they will provide five days worth of supplies for each child. The STEM Camp Collection is geared toward ages 5 – 11 years old and includes materials for 2 hours each day.
What’s included in the STEM Camp
Each child will receive their own STEM Camp Collection box that will include one each of the following kits: Mad Scientist Laboratory, It’s Electric, Bubblology, Water Magic, and Newton’s Antics. The number of kids you want to invite to your camp is completely up to you.
STEM Camp Curriculum
Of course you can feel free to switch these up however you like, but typically, Steve Spangler Kits go in some sort of reasonable order for learning. The STEM Camp Kits provide the following 5 day curriculum:
Day 1 – Mad Scientist Laboratory
- Engage with colorful creations that don’t stain
- Dive into basic chemistry to start the week
- Experiment and solve challenges, like creating a lava lamp
Day 2 – It’s Electric
- Explore the differences between insulators and conductors
- Turn your own body into a human conductor of electricity…and it is perfectly safe!
Day 3 – Bubblology
- Learn about the secrets of bubbles
- Touch and bounce bubbles without popping them
- Learn how to make a square bubble
Day 4 – Water Magic
- Make a jar of water defy gravity, while turning it upside down
- Learn about surface tension
- Learn about polymers and their everyday uses
Day 5 – Newton’s Antics
- Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion
- Learn about gravity, friction, inertia, and centripetal force
Learn more about starting your own STEM Camp for Kids
Steve Spangler Science has a ton of resources and a customer support team to help you with everything you need to get started running your camp. Visit them online or watch this to learn all about Summer Learning with STEM Camp.
This is really an awesome idea! I think I need to get one of these for the summer. It is so important to keep kids learning even during those months of vacation. This comes with so many tools and ways to make learning fun.
I have never tried this before! I think it’s awesome that parents are encouraging their kids to be more interested in Science, technology, and math. That’s really going to benefit them.
Hosting your own STEM camp is such a genius idea! This will be great to beat the summer boredom that typically comes a couple weeks in!
My son would really like this! It would keep him busy all day and teach them something too.
I think the Bubbleology would be my fave. Who doesn’t like to play with bubbles?? The learning makes it great too. 🙂
Oh wow. Lots of fun activities! Love that they are all STEM based activities. I would be interested in the Mad Scientist Laboratory and the Bubbology. I would love to learn how to make a square bubble!