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Exploring STEM subjects at home will help you to nurture the inner inventor within your child. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, better known as STEM subjects, will help your child to develop essential skills for later on in life such as problem-solving. A top London sixth form and college shares more on this and how you can explore STEM with your child at home.
Homemade Science Experiments
Feed their curiosity with fun, homemade science experiments. This can be a lava lamp using fizzy tablets, vegetable oil and food colouring.
Website Building
Learning how to use technology is a vital skill and building a web page could give them a taste of what a career in web design or user experience could look like. There are free tools including Adobe Spark that allow you to easily create free web pages.
As a task, you might set your child with the job of creating a digital scrapbook displaying their proudest pieces of work. You might even decide to increase the intensity of this activity and get your child to code a website from scratch using what they have learned at school.
Cooking
Creating something yummy is only half the fun. Cooking involves a lot of experimentation to create the right flavours and textures. In the kitchen, you can teach fundamental science lessons surrounding evaporation, convection currents and viscosity.
An activity could involve the convection of heat by making several batches of cupcakes using different racks. You should find that cupcakes baked on the top rack of your oven will cook much faster and be browner in colour despite being further away from the flame. This is due to the principle that hot air rises and cool air sinks.