Parents and Guardians
Bring the joy of discovery to life in the comfort of home with a variety of exciting digital learning explorations that help students put STEM skills into action. Family members can join in as students get hands-on with ready-to-use activities promoting self-guided learning and career success.

Inspire the Next Generation of Sustainability Change Agents
Are your students ready to solve some of the world's greatest sustainability challenges? Use these exciting hands-on activities to spark their curiosity and help them understand how they can use their skills to save our planet.

Health
Strawberry DNA Experiment
Bring to life the importance of DNA with a simple at-home experiment in which students will learn how to extract DNA from strawberries. Using only a few basic ingredients, students will create an experiment that allows them to see the action of DNA in a glass using only the naked eye.

Health
Outbreak Escape Room
Show students how scientists race around the clock in the fight against a pandemic in this exciting Escape Room activity. Students will tackle a real-world scenario involving a global pandemic to learn about the health risks of influenzas and discover the various approaches to stopping the spread of disease.

Water
Water Clarity
Dive into the importance of water purity with a household experiment in which families work to successfully filter water using household materials.

Water
Manual Maintenance
Refresh your understanding of personal water consumption by diving into the subject of handwashing in people’s day-to-day lives.

Water
Precision Irrigation Design Challenge
Delve into the challenges of irrigation in agriculture, industry, and at home by designing an irrigation system from recycled household items.

Exploration and Discovery
Virtual Adventure
Become a family travel agency and virtual tourists for a day by planning a journey to a special destination anywhere in the world.

Recycling
Package Redesign
Reevaluate the everyday products you love by considering the effectiveness of their packaging, then explore your own improvements.

General
Structural Strength
Erect an earthquake-resistant homemade structure out of household materials, then test the durability of what you built by shaking things up!

Health
Get Your Heart Pumping
Breathe new life into daily wellbeing by designing simple 15-minute exercises that help encourage one hour or more of physical activity per day.

Exploration and Discovery
Creative Chain Reactions
Revitalize everyday household chores by engineering a simple series of chain reactions that accomplish normal tasks in imaginative ways.

Food
Meal Prep
Get a taste for balanced nutritional choices by cooking up your own original recipe incorporating ingredients from the five key food groups.

Learning
DIY Challenge
Think outside-the-box as a team by researching a topic that has special meaning to your family, then turn what you learned into a fun new game.

Learning
Fueling Dreams
Stay practical in achieving your goals by thinking about purchasing your own vehicle, and how long that would take you to accomplish.

Health
Body and Sole
Use yourself as an example to understand the remarkable capacity of human beings to walk great distances throughout their lives.

Exploration and Discovery
Cosmic Commute
Think like an astronaut as you plan an interstellar voyage from your hometown to the moon, focusing on the crucial question of travel time.

Energy
On the Bright Side
Investigate the energy requirements necessary to support your community and evaluate how you could be using energy more efficiently.

Digital Citizenship
Left to Your Own Devices
Consider the amount of time you commit to social media in order to gain new perspective on the value of communication in your life.

Communities
It’s a Small World
Explore the science behind community planning by imagining the potential a limited space has to support a large population.

Exploration and Discovery
Engineering, Nature Style! Design Challenge
Nature acts as an inspiration for many designs and innovations. One example is how airplanes have taken the shape of birds.

Health
Calculate Horsepower
Get up to speed on the properties of horsepower with an energizing activity that sheds light on the connection between personal habits and energy use.

Communities
Geodesic-Inspired Dome Design Challenge
Practice essential design and management skills as a family by crafting a neat dome structure in your home built out of recycled paper products.

Learning
Playing Card Programming Design Challenge
Bring the power of programming to life around the house with a fun activity that combines creative storytelling and computational thinking.

Digital Citizenship
T.H.I.N.K. Before you Post!
Reinforce responsible and effective online communication by creating a thought-provoking Paper Slide Video that you can share with others.

Exploration and Discovery
Stacking Liquids
Witness the amazing properties of everyday liquids interacting with one another to learn how liquid refinement can be used in industry and homes.

Recycling
Pop and Population
Get involved in timely sustainability topics by exploring the collective recycling habits of your town over the course of a single week.

Food
Grown From Groceries
Give your kitchen scraps a new life by regrowing them into full plants. See what you have in your kitchen and follow the directions below.

Energy
Watts Going On?
Think more critically about how your household uses energy with a simple experiment to identify the most energy-consuming appliance in the house.

Learning
Plastic Fabric Art
Explore the sustainability of everyday materials by creating a makeshift fabric from recycled plastic that can be used in artwork, fashion, and accessories.
Explore STEM Connect, an interdisciplinary K-8 resource that enhances core curriculum, connects students to real-world challenges and brings STEM to life. Inspired by the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
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