If you’re like many parents in the world, you’ve been in quarantine for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. You love your kids but being stuck indoors with them can test your resolve to be totally present and creative with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After they’ve done their lessons (thank God for school activities!), they come to you with the age-old complaint: I’M BORED. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
STEM-based fun to the rescue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Activities based in science, technology, engineering, and math principles don’t have to be “hard” and they don’t have to be expensive. Even if STEM subjects were not your favorite in school, you can be a STEM parent. Trust me, with a little preparation, you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What to do: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your goal with at-home STEM projects isn’t formal teaching. No, you will not be a STEM specialist by any stretch. Your goal is exploration together, fostering curiosity, and having fun. Resist the urge to take the hands-off approach to at-home STEM stuff. By doing at least some of the STEM activities together, you’re sending a powerful message to your child: You are worth my time and so is STEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are a few ideas to get you started with your STEM quarantine plan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How have you enjoyed STEM at home with your kids? Share in the comments below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh yeah, when you get a minute, listen to our podcast<\/a> series. Have you downloaded the STEM Dreams Parent Guide<\/a> yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re like many parents in the world, you’ve been in quarantine for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. You love your kids but being stuck indoors with them can test your resolve to be totally present and creative with them. After they’ve done their lessons (thank God for school activities!), they come to you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,50],"tags":[54,53,52,51,12],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forparents","category-motivated","category-stem-at-home","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-covid19","tag-quarantine","tag-stem-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}