STEMify Your Daily Routines!
Are you a family member interested in cultivating STEM experiences within your child’s daily routines and activities? In this collection, you will find resources to help you enhance what you already do everyday with your child!
A Guide to Everyday STEM Talk
Turn daily routines, like mealtime and getting dressed into opportunities to talk about STEM with your young child.
Family Hotline Podcast Series
Turn everyday moments into meaningful STEM learning opportunities. In each short episode, everyday routines like bath time, grocery shopping, or playtime are transformed into a ‘laboratory’ for discoveries. Inclusion experts and families share ideas and tips on adaptations to help your child explore and learn through play and daily routines.
STEM Learning Within Family Routines and Activities
How can everyday routines, like getting dressed, mealtimes, play, or doing errands, become opportunities for early STEM learning? Watch this video to learn how to support and make adaptations to support infants and toddlers to notice and explore while doing the things you already do each day.
Looking for specific STEM activities?
My STEM Adventure App
A free, born-accessible family-friendly app that turns exploring STEM into a fun adventure at home and in your neighborhood. With 10 easy activities, children and caregivers take photos as they are guided through investigations on concepts such as patterns and cause & effect. The result? Meaningful learning along the way and a personalized storybook to revisit the shared experience and reinforce concepts. The app also gives simple tips for families on what children are learning.
Daily Routine Explorations
Find activity ideas to turn your daily routines, like going for a walk or getting dressed, into fun opportunities to explore STEM together.
Discovery Play Activities
Learn about play ideas that help young children explore and experience STEM through hands-on discovery. Adaptations including visual support included!
Early Intervention Cards
Use these activity cards to create meaningful STEM experiences to support your child’s STEM learning and other developmental goals during everyday routines and play.
Storybook Conversations
Find ready-to-use prompts and questions focused on STEM concepts, visual support, and storybox ideas to spark fun and meaningful conversations while you read together with your child.