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National STEM Day, November 8th
Slime Making is STEM at Home
My soon to be 5th grader mastered the science of making slime. I wanted her to take on the project without any supervision from me. She is very resourceful and found different instructions on Elmer’s glue website. We found all of her supplies: glue, baking soda and contact solution at Target. I will include the link to Elmer’s glue below.
Elmer’s Glue Slime How To (this is a nonsponsored post)*
Who said learning has to stop during the SUMMER? In addition to the slime making, I have included an offline activity that involves science and math. Thanks to Education.com. This is a very interactive activity that utilizes math and science to learn about the solar system. If you are interested in more activities, you can visit their site here
Tour the Planets
Help your child learn the planets and practice math skills in this multi-player game! This learning mash-up is a great way to get your child interested in science and math while competing with his friends. Players will navigate the game through addition, subtraction and multiplication while exploring the solar system. Whoever colors in the most planets wins!
What You Need:
- White paper
- Markers
- Deck of cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed
- Pencil
What You Do:
Create The Scoresheet:
– Each player makes their own coloring sheet on a vertical piece of white paper. In the center of the page, draw the outline of a sun with a black marker.
– Draw 9 concentric rings around the sun, one ring per planet or the moon in our solar system. Make a black outline drawing of each planet or moon on it’s orbital line. They can be drawn as creatively as you like!
– Next to each drawing, write the corresponding initial. The initials in order around the sun should be: M, V, E, M, J, S, U, N, P.
– Have your child shuffle the deck and place it face down.
Play The Game:
- Ask your child to shuffle the deck and place it face down. For this game aces = 1.
- Each player takes 2 cards at a time. They can choose to use any math system including addition, subtraction, or multiplication to combine the two cards they choose, trying to end up with any number between 1 and 9.
- If the answer is between 1 and 9, the player gets to color in the corresponding planet in order of their distance from the sun. For example, if a player’s number is 5, they would color in Jupiter, because it’s the 5th planet from the sun.
- Players can only color in the planets if their math is correct, they can name the planet, and the planet has not been colored in yet by another player.
- When all the planets have been named, each player should count the number of planets they have colored and whoever has colored the most planets is the winner!
Example:
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I made slime last month at the Museum of Science and Industry. I brought some home and it’s still slimy. This sounds like a fun activity for adults too.
From my little scientist’s tips, adding baking soda helps to absorb moisture so it is less sticky. This may be a quick fix or making some at home to experiment with different ratios of ingredients to get the preferred consistency.