Raise Your Children to Be Creative, Complex Problem Solvers
Make your Family a STEM Family
We help parents bring STEM into their home, to empower their kids to be creative, innovative, and tech-friendly.
Use STEM Family to equip your kids with key skills to thrive as they grow up: computational thinking, design thinking, and systems thinking.
Teach your kids key concepts of computer science, design, and technology -- all through affordable + lightweight play
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Our Latest + Greatest Activity Recipes and Reviews
We have created these STEM activities to be:
- Screen-Free: They are about learning in real life, not with a device
- Lightweight: They are easy and quick for parents to do
- Affordable: They are free or very low cost
- Playful:They are fun and interactive to do together
April 8, 2019
Your children will have to think like systems thinkers and also explore design thinking approach.
March 28, 2019
Instead of designing the living room yourself, invite your children to be a part of it and share their fresh and big ideas with you.
March 20, 2019
When you are checking out after your grocery run with your kid, have some fun with Performance Modeling.
March 14, 2019
Your children will make decisions whether different objects sink or float.
February 28, 2019
Your children will be able to understand the connectedness of eating so much food in the linner time.
February 23, 2019
Allow your children to discover their emotions while coding.
February 18, 2019
Your children will know how to take good actions to tackle climate change and keep the environment green.
February 12, 2019
Today we review, I’m Feeling Happy (Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood) and I’m Feeling Sad (Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood) We read Daniel Tiger’s Neighboorhood books to our children almost every week, […]
February 10, 2019
Your child becomes the GPS -- and they need think computationally to give you the right instructions to get you to your destination.
February 10, 2019
Let your child express his/her emotions
February 5, 2019
Grocery shopping with your little one to teach data labeling
February 5, 2019
Let your child become computational gardener while planting a garden.
February 2, 2019
Arrange and order things (or, in this case, party guests) by comparing ages via the Merge Sort Algorithm.
February 2, 2019
Help your child learn new words computationally.
January 21, 2019
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (April 19, 2016) Authors: Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Are you […]
December 29, 2018
Make a lovely, cushy creature using the design process + patterns!
December 27, 2018
Allow your child to make a little bit sense of your feelings, memories, and mental models to sketch.
December 14, 2018
Allow your child to discover what state you are in while collecting and analyzing state plates’ symbols, colors, or slogans.
December 11, 2018
When your dishes are ready to organize, let your child sort them and then find the right places to put.
November 27, 2018
This is a game to play as you encourage your child to learn new sports.
November 26, 2018
Even if you are not aware, you intuitively create and apply algorithms in your daily life.
November 15, 2018
It is going to be so much! It is time to perform as a guest speaker together with your T.V. host child.
November 11, 2018
This is a game to play as you decide to go on a diet.
November 8, 2018
You child will learn to recognize, create, and extend pattern recognition through hotel room experiment
November 4, 2018
When considering fun things to do with children, one of the most exciting options is acting, dancing, and singing together.
October 31, 2018
You child will utilize computational and design thinking approaches while playing soccer
The STEM Family Learning Pathway
Computational Thinking
Get your kid thinking like a computer scientist, not by sitting in front of a screen, but by interacting with you in short games to learn Loops, Conditional Statements, Sequences, Algorithms -- and other key computational thinking concepts that will help them learn to code. Go to Computational Thinking activity recipesDesign Thinking
Bring out your child's creativity and experimentation by leading them through Design Thinking activities. You'll be helping them develop Empathy, Visualization, Prototyping, Iteration, and other essential skills to build their confidence and unleash their ingenuity. Go to Design Thinking activity recipesSystems Thinking
How do we make the world a better place? If you teach your kid the basics of Systems Thinking, you can help them understand complexity, cause and effect, and dynamics of the systems we live in. You'll help them understand Behavior Loops, Patterns, Diagrams, and other key tools to understand systems Go to Systems Thinking activity recipes
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STEM Through Mindsets
Raising a child to be STEM-smart is not just about teaching them rules and vocabulary to memorize. It’s about instilling fundamental mindsets that make them into creative, scientific problem-solvers.
STEM Family focuses on 3 core mindsets: Design Thinking, Computational Thinking, and Systems Thinking.
Kids don't need screen time to learn computational thinking.
We have offline activities for you to play with your kids, that still teach STEM.
Check out our Blog to see what we're exploring and researching
February 23, 2020
Introduce one of the computational thinking concepts which is the algorithm for high school students.
February 23, 2020
Try seven computational thinking concepts and practices while utilizing unplugged activities cards.
January 11, 2020
Let your students explore Python while utilizing design thinking approach.
December 29, 2019
Algorithms are the same for all programming languages. For example, This is the diagram to teach loops via unplugged activity, pseudocode, ScratchJr, Scratch, and Python. Learning […]
August 1, 2019
Let your child enjoy learning RGB (Red, Green, Blue) while thinking computationally.
February 7, 2019
This article is from the New york Times about Hadi Partovi. He is the founder of Code.org and Hour of Code. We highly recommend parents to […]
January 21, 2019
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (April 19, 2016) Authors: Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths Are you […]
October 21, 2018
We spoke one of the parents about their experiences in STEM Family.
January 21, 2018
what do parents want for their kids when it comes to Computer Science Education?
January 1, 2018
Forbes’ contributor Tine Thygesen has a piece for parents: The One Thing You Need To Teach Your Children To Future-Proof Their Success. The world your children will […]
December 31, 2017
what do parents want for their kids when it comes to Computer Science Education?
December 23, 2017
Coding can foster children’s ability to reason systematically, work collaboratively, and think creatively. If you have a young child, you might want to teach them how […]
