Science Club for Girls has moved online, offering hands-on activities, videos, podcasts, and virtual tours each Monday for its STEM Activity for the Week on the SCFG Facebook page. Everyone — not just SCFG members — is invited to try out the experiments and post on social media about them with the tag #SCFGatHome. You can also email photos or videos of your activity to scfg@scienceclubforgirls.org for SCFG to share. SCFG also offers this list of at-home STEM activities, videos, podcasts, and other resources.
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Northeastern Splash! has Moved to Online Classes
Each spring, NEPTUN (a Northeastern University student group) hosts Splash!, a free program for students in Grades 9-12 to take mini-classes led by Northeastern undergraduate and graduate students. This spring, Splash! has moved online to Digital Splash! STEM courses include:
New England Sci-Tech Offers Online Classes
The New England Sci-Tech STEM education center in Natick is offering online classes in science fact and fiction. Many of the classes are free for members, and admission is low-cost for everyone else.
- Amateur Radio License Course – Technician (all ages): Learn the basics of wireless technology and get an FCC radio license.
- Amateur Radio License Course – General (all ages): Upgrade to a higher level
- Ask a Fire Fighter (Grades 3-10): Learn about fire fighting and fire safety.
- Ham Radio Shop Talk (all ages): Ask a mentor how to use your radio.
- Yes, This is Rocket Science (ages 8-adult, or younger children accompanied by an adult): Learn concepts, design a rocket, run simulated flights, print parts lists and plans.
- Deep Thought (Grades 6-12): Discuss time travel, faster-than-light travel, teleportation, relativity, quantum mechanics, and more.
- Sci-Fi Fan Club – (grades 6-12): Discuss sci-fi literature and share sci-fi short stories.
- Dinner and a Sci-Fi Movie (grades 6-12): Discuss sci-fi movies and examine the plausible science behind the fiction.
NNHS STEMentors Club Offers Experiments to Try at Home
The Newton North HS STEMentors club was formed to bring STEM lessons to Newton students in Grades K-8 in schools, libraries, and expos. During COVID-19 #FlattenTheCurve closings, STEMentors is offering a montage of science experiments for kids to try at home through a video and an online document to demonstrate and explain each experiment. Send them feedback at stementors.nnhs@gmail.com.
The Knowledge Society Offers Remote Learning Materials
The Knowledge Society, with offices in Cambridge and several other cities, is a 10-month accelerator program for curious and ambitious teens to learn how to use emerging technologies to solve big problems. It’s now offering these online resources for teens:
- Online sessions each week (sign up here), including access to recordings of previous sessions: Cellular agriculture, Brain-computer interfaces, Human longevity, Gene editing, and Artificial intelligence.
- Free online learning modules brain-computer interfaces, space technologies, and viruses (sign up here).
WGBH Distance Learning Resources: Broadcast and Streaming
The WGBH Distance Learning Center is broadcasting educational programming in science and social studies, noon to 5PM daily for Grades 6-12 on WGBH WORLD (Comcast 956, FiOS 473, RCN 94, Cox 807, Charter 181) and WGBY WORLD (over-the-air 57.2, Comcast 209, Spectrum 181 and 1275).
In addition, it offers on-demand streaming of education programs for Grades Pre-K, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
Empow Studios Offers Parents Uninterrupted Time ;-)
Empow Studios is offering working parents 2-4 hours of uninterrupted time each weekday through its new virtual online STEM classes for kids to learn coding, digital arts, and design in small classes with live instructors. Classes are organized by grade level and offered several times a day, with emphasis ranging from exploring a wide range of interests to focusing on one, with the option to receive maximum 1:1 support.
Christa McAuliffe Center Offers Online Learning Resources
The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University offers teachers and caregivers these STEM resources for Grades PreK-12:
- ISS Image of the Week from the International Space Station
- DIY Universe to develop an understanding of how the universe works
- STEM At Home: A curated collection of online learning resources
- Sustainable Space, Sustainable Earth: Videos of speaker presentations and panel discussions from the Moon Landing in Context symposium
- Smithsonian Distance Learning Resources
Boston Tech Mom Catalogs Instructor-Led Online STEM Courses
Boston Tech Mom has gathered information about several instructor-led online STEM courses.
STEM Offerings Moving Rapidly to Online, In-Home Learning
Providers of STEM education and enrichment have moved rapidly to create online versions of their in-person programs for use during the COVID-19 pandemic:
- The Innovation Institute has moved all of its spring-term courses online. Classes are starting just now, and some spaces are still available. An initial review from a parent of Grades K and 2 said her kids’ first classes were “a smashing success.” Additional courses will be added soon for Grades 8-12.
- Mad Science offers its Loop Lab mail-order science curriculum (with a free lab coat if you use code LABCOAT19). It’s also offering daily 60-minute live online classroom sessions, available for single sessions or by the week.
- Code Ninjas has created (and will be updating) a list of at-home STEM activity resources and is offering an at-home Hack-a-thon, tutorial videos, and daily LIVE YouTube videos. Details here.
- Empow Studios is offering live, virtual online classes in coding, robotics, film and animation, Minecraft, and engineering.
- The John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club has moved its Curiosity Club, Keystone Club, and Torch club meetings online and will host coding and other STEM activities for elementary and middle school kids via MyFuture.net.
- Within the next week, the Russian School of Math will have temporarily moved all of its in-person classes online, simulating in-person classes as much as possible and drawing on its seven years of experience in online learning.
- CSRecitations has moved all of its in-person classes online, including a new summer online course in Java for Grades 8+. Class sizes are limited to five students.