STEM activities
Lab and coding
STEM activities are educational exercises focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The term appears most often in K-12 contexts, describing hands-on projects designed to build technical skills and problem-solving abilities: The summer camp offers STEM activities like robotics and coding.
Parents and educators use the phrase to distinguish these from arts or humanities-focused learning.
- experimentsTests of a hypothesis
- baking soda volcanoVinegar-powered eruption model
- bridge buildingCreating structures connecting separated points
- paper airplaneFolded sheet for throwing
- hypothesesProposed explanations to test
observations · coding · app development · logic puzzles · biology · statistical analysis · chemistry · physics · mechanical systems · robotics · astronomy · ecology · water filtration · web design · circuit design · structural analysis · 3D printing · hands-on learning
- childcaredaycare, after-school programs, babysitter, nanny, babysitting
- Children's Museumplay areas, water tables, building blocks, puppet theater, art studio
- museum featurespermanent collection, exhibits, rotating exhibits, sculpture garden, exhibition hall
- youth programsyouth groups, youth programs, Girl Scouts, youth camps, after-school programs
- Elementary Teachinglesson plans, classroom management, phonics, sight words, reading groups
- hobby electronicscircuits, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, wires
STEM activitiesliberal arts
Non-vocational higher education
fine arts · creative arts · performing arts · literary studies · visual arts
STEM activitiescreative expression
Original artistic production
artistic expression · artistic pursuits · expressive arts · imaginative play · free play
STEM activitiesliberal arts education
Broad, non-vocational scholarly training
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