activities at home
As most events have been postponed or cancelled, we've been curating a list of resources that offer STEAM-related activities to try at home:
- Amazon future engineer - free CS courses
- Girls Who Code - releasing weekly CS-related activities - some online, some offline, of varying levels of difficulty
- Morning Meeting - a daily podcast (Tuesday through Friday) focused on sharing ideas, laughter and creative challenges**
- Mouse Open Projects - links to a variety of creative projects using free tech tools
- #RoundTheWorld_ChainReaction - follow this hashtag to find some great ideas for building chain reaction and Rube Goldberg machines
- #ScratchAtHome - follow this hashtag to find all sorts of interesting coding challenges
- The Daily Creature - educational videos featuring animal-themed stories and art projects for kids ages 6 to 12 from IX Art Park**
- UVA SWE - the Society of Women Engineers at UVA have created a Home Activity Workbook filled with science and engineering activities**
- VDM @ Home - bring the Discovery Museum home with daily activity ideas**
- Wagilabs - an idea incubator for kids, ages 8-11, with lots of resources to help you dream big!**
- Yes We Tech - CS Unplugged challenges you can do with everyday items at home**
** created by individuals and organizations in Charlottesville, VA
Don't just veg out in front of a screen - make something for it
Beginner
- Code a stop motion video, meme, music video and more with Vidcode.
- Find a wide variety of beginner coding tutorials from block-based programming platforms like Blockly and App Inventor to JavaScript and Python. There's something for everyone at the Hour of Code!
- Create an app in BitsBox and learn a little JavaScript along the way.
- Create video games about the cells in your body with Programming Cells.
- Animate a story, create a video game, the possibilities are endless with Scratch.
- Create some pixel art.
More Advanced
- Learn how to create web pages with Glitch.
- Explore the intersection of art and code with Processing.
- Create a video game. Check out Video Game Design website for tutorials on a wide variety of game design platforms.
- Create an animated GIF using GIMP.
- Turn your keyboard into an instrument with Soundplant.