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Daily 10 is a primary maths resource for Years 1 to 6 covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ordering, partitioning, digit values and more.

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Mental Maths Train

Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations.

Hit the Button

Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Brilliant for improving mental maths and calculation skills, but particularly times tables either up to 10 or up to 12 times.

Subtraction Grids

Can you meet the challenge to see how many subtraction calculations you can do in two minutes? There are different levels and you can choose either one or two missing numbers to make your number sentence correct.

Rocket Rounding

A multiple choice game involving rounding numbers to ten, a hundred and to a whole number. There are two options, one with a number line and the other more difficult level, without one.

Daily 10 has maths questions on a range of maths concepts: addition, subtraction, ordering, partitioning, digit values, rounding, multiplication, division, doubles, halves and fractions. Great starter or plenary activity. Useful for mental maths.

Multiples and Factors

A multiple choice game with two game modes. In the first you need to identify the Lowest Common Multiple and in the second the Highest Common Factor. Questions increase in difficulty depending on accuracy

White Rose Maths Home Learning

The White Rose Maths Team has prepared a series of five maths lessons for each year group from Year 1-8 to help parents with home learning.

Caterpillar Ordering

A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard. Levels range from ordering and sequencing numbers to 5 up to decimals.

Bowland Maths

Bowland Maths aims to make maths engaging for pupils aged 11-14, with a focus on developing thinking, reasoning and problem-solving skills. In these materials pupils tackle maths problems set in a rich mixture of real-life and fantasy situations.

Measuring in Cm

A measuring game which can help children to understand how to use a ruler. Children need to measure various objects against a centimetre ruler. Two levels of difficulty with whole centimetre and half centimetre examples.

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Mental Maths Train Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations. Hit the Button Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock.

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STEPS Engineering Your Future

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STEPS Engineering Your Future STEPS Engineering Your Future (STEPS EYF) is designed to inspire Transition Year students to study engineering. STEPS EYF is an engineering experience programme that gives Transition Year students a hands-on, fun and practical insight into engineering at third level and as a career.

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True Story of a person who built a LEGO Prosthetic Arm!

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Eleathanach - weekly online publication for the senior end of primary school

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Is áis léitheoireachta í Eleathanach a bhíonn ar fáil gach Luan saor in aisce ó Roinn Froebel don Bhun- agus Luath- Oideachas, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad. Cuireadh tús leis an Eleathanach in 2008. Le cabhair ón gComhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, ó Choláiste Alexandra, agus léachtóirí i Roinn Froebel don Bhun- agus Luath- Oideachas tá an tionscadal ag dul ó neart go neart. Is nuachtlitir leictreonach í le hailt a mhúsclaíonn spéis na ndaltaí. Tá sé dírithe ar rang a cúig agus a sé sa bhunscoil. I mí Mheán Fómhair 2009, bronnadh an Séala Eorpach Teanga ar an togra seo. Bhí an Giúiré an-tógtha le Eleathanach agus cheap siad gur 'tionscadal fíorchruthaitheach úrnua é seo, bíodh is go bhfuil sé simplí.'

Tá ábhar ann atá suimiúil do na hardranganna toisc an bhaint atá ag an idirbhliain i gColáiste Alexandra le scríobh na n-alt. Chomh maith leis sin, coimeádtar súil ghéar ar leibhéal na teanga. Toisc gur nuachtlitir sheachtainiúil í, bíonn deis ag múinteoirí ábhar nua a chur i láthair an ranga gach seachtain. Is bealach éifeachtach é Eleathanach chun a chinntiú go mbaineann an t-ábhar léitheoireachta a roghnaítear sa seomra ranga le cúrsaí na linne agus go bhfuil téacsanna dílse á n-úsáid sa seomra ranga. Is féidir le múinteoirí an Eleathanach a fháil trí ríomhphost a sheoladh chuig eleathanach@gmail.com agus cuirfear ar an liosta seoltaí iad. Buntáiste a bhaineann le bheith ar an liosta seoltaí ná go dtagann an Eleathanach i bhfoirm Microsoft Word agus is féidir le múinteoirí an t-ábhar agus an teanga a chur in oiriúint do pháistí ina rang. Chomh maith leis sin bíonn Eleathanach ar fáil gach Luan anseo ar shuíomh na Roinne agus ar shuíomh COGG www.cogg.ie. Cuirtear 20 eagrán amach in aghaidh na bliana agus tá páistí na tíre ag baint taitnimh as na hailt shuimiúla!

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History Storytime for children told by 7 year old Sophie, 5 year old Ellie and their Daddy. Exciting history stories of Knights, Tudors, Romans, World Wars, Revolutions, Explorers, Scientists and Sports. Hear amazing history stories of animals, stirring historical stories of love and betrayal, and of strong women and how they changed history. Real life narrative history as it should be told. Won Silver in the BritPodAwards. Helps support learning history for the National Curriculum with Key Stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2) and for all Elementary ages - Grades K-5. Great for supporting parents with homeschooling. Valued by teachers, enjoyed by parents, loved by kids.

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History Storytime - For Kids | a podcast by Sophie (7) & Ellie (5) tell history for kids

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Multiples (Factors) Mixed 2 - 12

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Coconut Multiples is a tablet-friendly maths game which can reinforce your knowledge of times tables by helping you to recognise the multiples from each table. They can select either multiples up to either the 12 or 10 times table. Multiples can then be worked on either as individual times tables or mixed.

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Coconut Multiples - Reinforce Times Tables

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Coconut Multiples is a fun maths game to help 6-11 year olds recognise multiples from either the 10 or 12 times tables.

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Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

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Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

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The classic 'Teaching Tables' software is now available as a download for Windows based PC's.
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Welcome to IXL's 5th class maths page. Practise maths online with unlimited questions in more than 200 fifth-class maths skills.

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Games to practice Dodging and Athletic Skills

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In a child's eyes, games are the most natural, recognizable, and enjoyable of all activities. Give kids free time and space, and you will see them either chasing each other playing tag or wrestling each other to the ground. From a coaching perspective, games are easy to teach and obviously fun and motivating for the young athlete.

In games, it's easy to manipulate the rules, environment, and participants to get different desired outcomes. Different outcomes develop different skills and abilities, says @JeremyFrisch. Click To Tweet

It is also easy to manipulate the rules, environment, and participants of games to get different desired outcomes. Different outcomes develop different skills and abilities. For example, a coach can manipulate the size of the playing field in a game of tag to allow the players to have to cover more distance. This can increase the conditioning effect or shorten the distance to allow for more decision-making and change of direction development.

Why Games Trump Youth Sports

Ultimately, games serve as a vehicle for kids to practice and expand their overall movement skill set. Before the invention of training facilities and travel teams, children played all kinds of games after school in backyards and sandlots across America. These random pick-up games loosely based around sports, with their own set of rules and guidelines that the participants themselves made up, were a perfect environment for children to try and practice a variety of skills.

These games were fun because kids were among friends and free of any adult involvement. There were no coaches there telling the kids how to do one particular skill; rather, children would come up with a variety of ways to accomplish a task. This autonomy and development of diverse skills armed kids with the ability to problem-solve in different situations. They would then take these skills with them into more complex forms of organized sports later on.

In my facility, we practice a variety of fundamental movements like sprinting, jumping, catching, and throwing. These basic movements are foundational to many sports skills, so it's important that young athletes have a decent understanding of how to do these movements. With young athletes, we don't look for complete mastery here, but basic competency. We often introduce and practice these movements during the warm-up period/skill development period of our training session. From there, we take those skills and try to put them into use in a more open and chaotic environment. This where we use games to further develop our movement skills.

In the following part of this article, I list my favorite games that work in my facility along with the specific training goals that I look to develop. It is by no means an exhaustive list of games. The idea here is to simply offer some ideas that coaches can use to develop all-around athleticism. Some of these games are very simple; others are a bit more complex. I have found all of them to be valuable and fun for the young athletes I work with.

Flag Tag

In its essence, Tag may be the simplest but most athletically beneficial of all games. When it comes to developing a wide range of athletic skills, the game of Tag is unmatched. First, kids intuitively understand how to play Tag without any formal instruction. They love that rush of implied danger from being tagged, and the game requires nothing more than open space.

Here is a list of some of the other skills developed during Tag: decision-making skills, tracking, evasion, tactics and strategy, acceleration, deceleration and change of direction, reaching, and changing body position. Let's not forget Tag's amazing cardiovascular benefits and, as you will see in the Flag Tag version, its development of accuracy.

The flag version of Tag simply adds football flags to the equation. Now, instead of one person being "it," everyone is it and not it at the same time. It's each person for themselves in a "last man standing," royal rumble-style competition. The goal is to pull each opponent's flag and, at the same time, not get your flag pulled. The last one with a flag still on wins.

What I love about Flag Tag is that, instead of tagging an opponent anywhere, the flag pull is specific to one spot on the body: the hips. If any football coaches are reading this, they know this is a very important concept. This is because in tracking for tackling an offensive player with the ball, the defender always tracks near the hip.

Team Relay Tag

This version of Tag uses time to determine the winner. One team is the taggers, and the other team is the runners. We typically play this game inside a 10-yard x 10-yard square, but we may go bigger or smaller depending on the number of players involved. In Team Relay Tag, each player on the tagger team will have a turn trying to tag a person on the runner team.

If a person on the runner team is tagged, they are not out; they stay in the game until all taggers have had their turn. We simply time how long it takes for the taggers to get a runner. Then the teams switch roles. The team that has the fastest time tagging wins the game. Some of the key skills developed are quick changes of direction, efficient movement in tight spaces, and the ability to process a lot of visual input quickly.

Time helps build urgency, as most sports use time periods to determine outcomes. True, games like baseball and golf are not time-based, but nearly all other games in team sports use the clock to determine the winner in addition to the score. Points and time seem to improve efficient movement development if done right.

Power Ball

Yes, you guessed it. I stole this game directly from the old American Gladiators show. The game is simple: The offensive player on each team has 30 seconds to score three separate balls into a bucket. The player can only hold one ball at a time. If that player gets tagged by a defender before they score, that ball is out for the remainder of the 30 seconds.

The setup is key in this game. There will always be one more bucket to score than the number of defenders. For example, if there are three players to a team, they will have to defend four buckets. This forces the defenders to really work together and hustle to cover all the buckets. Offensively, the scorer is always searching for an open scoring opportunity by working off their teammates' actions.

Remember: There will always be one open bucket on the floor, but that will change depending on the defenders' positions and where the offense is trying to score. The development of skills like evasion/invasion, tracking/tagging, defensive sliding/shuffling, and vision/perception/decision-making are applicable to many sports, and this is why a game like this is so beneficial to young athletes. We can develop usable skills in a competitive situation.

Move the Mountain

Move the Mountain is a relay race on steroids. Instead of the classic version of a relay race where the participants simply run back and forth, Move the Mountain involves running, carrying, and traversing an obstacle course. I am a huge fan of relay races with young athletes because of their many positive benefits:

Awesome team activity.

Perfect for large groups of kids.

Encourages healthy competition.

Great for cheering on your teammates.

Kids give maximum effort followed by appropriate rest.

Team races are awesome because we can divide teams evenly to make a competitive race. A fast stud can be paired with a slower kid and race against a couple of average speed athletes. Add in the obstacle course, and the athletes having to carry weighted objects turns the race from pure speed to something entirely different.

Runners and Gunners (aka: Pickle)

Pickle was one of my favorite games as a kid. I can remember playing it-running back and forth in the middle of the street while the throwers "gunned" a tennis ball back and forth. In the original version of Pickle that I played as a kid in the '80s, the only way to get out was for the throwers to tag you, just like in baseball. In the 2019 version of Runners and Gunners, we use gator skin balls and runners can be gunned down either by being tagged or being hit with the ball. In the older version, we played with just a few kids in the middle as runners. In the Runners and Gunners version, we play with many players in the middle, and the winner is the last one standing.

At Achieve Performance, we often end a training session with Runners and Gunners because it's a great way to get some extra cardiovascular conditioning. When the game gets going, it's amazing how much running the kids are actually able to get in. Anecdotally, I have seen kids run back and forth for upward of 300-400 yards in a game. They do this without realizing they are actually conditioning because they are engaged and having fun.

We often end a training session with the Runners and Gunners game because it's a great way to get some extra cardiovascular conditioning, says @JeremyFrisch. Click To Tweet

Try having a 10-year-old running repeat 300-yard shuttles and you won't be in the business working with youth for very long. Therefore, a competitive event like Pickle is a game-changer. This game also develops other skills, including change of direction, acceleration, evasion, dodging, tracking, and throwing. Of all the games we play at my facility, this is by far the most popular.

Kings and Pawns

Kings and Pawns combines elements of both wrestling and football. There is blocking, tackling, takedowns, and running all combined in a very small space. The game consists of two teams facing off with each other. Each team has a king and pawns, with the pawns kneeling and the king standing behind them. The purpose of the game is for the kings to make their way across the playing area to the other side without being tackled by a pawn on the other team. The king's own pawns work to block the opposing team's pawns and make a safe passage for their king.

Youth athletes love the rough-and-tumble nature of Kings and Pawns. For athletes who aspire to play contact sports, this is a great game for getting used to the pushing-pulling and tackling nature of those sports. Contact sports involve players having to be comfortable in each other's personal space. They have to be able to keep their balance and learn how to react to an opponent's movements.

I can think of no better game than Kings and Pawns. There is so much pushing and pulling and grappling going on, all inside a small and chaotic space. It's the perfect environment to stimulate all the senses and force the young athletes to come up with unique ways to be successful in a space.

Boulder Ball

Boulder Ball is a favorite of our youngest aspiring athletes. We have two versions: one that focuses on dodging and evasion and one that focuses on speed and acceleration. The game is played with a "boulder" ( stability ball), with all of the children in the middle of the padded playing area between two coaches. The coaches roll the ball (gently) toward the players, trying to hit them. The players in the middle try not to get hit.

This game is fun and exhilarating for the kids, and it develops a number of skills, of course. Tracking and evading a large bouncing ball in a small space allows the kids to come up with a number of ways not to get hit by the ball. Not to sound too much like Patches O'Houlihan, but the kids do in fact come up with lots of different ways to dodge, duck, dip, and dive. The last player not to get hit wins the game. If a player catches the boulder while airborne, every player who is out gets to come back in.

Version two is simply a race. It was inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones running for his life from a boulder. Two athletes race the boulder (stability ball) to the crash mat. The goal is to dive onto the crash mat before the ball either hits them or hits the mat.

Hill Sprints Racing

I know what you are thinking: You make kids run hill sprints? That can't be much fun-the kids must hate this activity. Yes, hill sprints for the sake of torturing kids just to make them tired is a stupid idea. But, as Coach Carl Valle always says, the devil is in the details.

Let me digress for just a moment. I coach a lot of youth team sports, like football, baseball, and lacrosse, and speed is obviously a prerequisite to success in those sports. We also know that coordination is best developed between the ages of 5 and 12 and running fast is a highly coordinated activity. So, it makes sense to me to expose young athletes to some form of speed development work.

Because coordination is best developed from ages 5-12 and running fast is a highly coordinated activity, it makes sense to expose youth athletes to some form of speed development work. Click To Tweet

But why hill sprints? Well, that's simple: It's really hard to have poor form when sprinting up a hill. The hill provides the natural driving-forward lean seen during the acceleration phase of sprinting. On top of that, there is a strength and cardiovascular benefit for relatively untrained children as well. Here in New England, there is no shortage of hills to sprint.

To get the most out of hill sprints with kids, we almost always make it a race. The kids line up two at a time and race each other. This makes the lines longer, which is a good thing. We want decent rest periods between sprints. We have to remember that we are training speed and not conditioning here. The racing component ties it all together because the kids get excited to race and always put forth a good effort.

If a hill is not available, or you find yourself indoors, we have found resisted pushing races to be both exciting for the kids and beneficial for sprinting, especially driving through the ground with the legs.

Tug of War

When talking strength development concepts for children, old-school Tug of War games are a must. Besides being fun and competitive, which gets all the kids excited, they are a total-body maximum effort activity. Pulling on a rope involves some serious quasi-isometric tension in the grip, arms, shoulders, back, and legs. Large groups can play Tug of War using a rope, and smaller groups of kids can use a medicine ball, a stick, or even grasping hands.

Have kids get creative by standing on one foot or standing inside a Hula-Hoop and trying to pull each other out. One of my favorite "strength" circuits for my 8- to 10-year-olds involves combining a series of animal moves, like 20 yards of bear crawls, followed by some lateral climbing across a pull-up bar, followed by sled pushes, and finally Tug of War. These are a fun and challenging series of exercises that functionally hit just about every part of the body.

If we want training to carry over to real sports situations, then we need to expose young athletes to a variety of movements and environments. Games are fantastic options because they put athletes in the often-chaotic and competitive environment of sports. In many court and field sports, the conditions and movements of the game change frequently.

Drills are pre-programmed and robotic, and coaches use them to refine very specific movements; games and races are a bit more global and rely on the young athletes coming up with different ways to accomplish a task. When it comes to working with athletes, the refining process should occur in the later years. The early years should consist of as much global movement as possible.

Don't forget how engaging games are for young athletes. With so many kids quitting sports because it's not enjoyable to them-games are a creative way to get kids to like movement. Click To Tweet

Finally, let's not forget how engaging games are for young athletes. If they find an activity enjoyable, they are much more likely to put forth an honest effort and continue with that activity. These days, far too many young athletes are quitting sports because it's not enjoyable for them. We need to find creative ways to get more kids to like movement. The more enjoyable they find an activity, they longer they stay.

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9 (Fun!) Games to Develop Movement Skills and Athleticism - SimpliFaster

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It's no secret that kids love to play games, and youth coaches should take advantage of that to develop athletic skills. By manipulating a game's rules, environment, and participants, coaches can get different desired outcomes. Coach Jeremy Frisch relies on games in his training of young athletes, especially the nine listed here, which are his favorites.

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Relaxation & Self Regulation Exercises for children

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Click on the image to the left to download the resource. Click on the images below to access audio recordings of the guided visualisations, written and recorded by our team.
This resource is also available in Irish and Irish guided visualisations are available below. More guided visualisations will be added in Irish soon.

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Relaxation and Self-Regulation Tools for Children

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The PDST Primary Health and Wellbeing Team have developed a new resource for primary schools. 'Breathe - Self-Regulation and Relaxation Techniques for Children' features a range of calming breathing techniques, written activities and guided visualisations that children can use to bring about a sense of peace and comfort in any situation.

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Lesson 1: How to become a Plastic Free Ambassador

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Crack the egg into the well; add the melted butter or oil and half the milk. Gradually draw the flour into the liquid by stirring all the time with a wooden spoon until all the flour has been incorporated and then beat well to make a smooth batter.

Stir in the remaining milk. Alternatively, beat all the ingredients together for 1 minute in a blender or food processor.

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Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and make a well in the centre. Crack the egg into the well; add the melted butter or oil and half the milk. Gradually draw the flour into the liquid by stirring all the time with a wooden spoon until all the flour has been incorporated and then beat well to make a smooth batter.

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I'm so excited to be with you today as part of the 28 Days of Hands-on STEM Activities for Kids series from Left Brain Craft Brain.

This past week bloggers have been looking at the theme STEM goes green, and it was a lot of fun to pull this project right out of our recycling bin. It's great because there's very little setup involved, and when you're done you can put the items right back in recycling.

Trash Tower Building Inspiration

It all started because we bought a lamp. The girl got a new art table for her playroom, and it needed some light, so husband bought a lamp.

The lamp went upstairs while the packing materials stayed on the coffee table in the living room.

I was getting ready to pick them up when I decided, you know what, let's play with that first.

So I went around the house gathering up recycling and building my own tower, waiting for the girl to come home from school.

The Trash Tower Building Challenge

Of course just having a table covered with boxes and containers is fun, but I wanted to give her a little more guidance and to make it a true engineering challenge.
Does your child love building challenges? Check out Up!, an ebook all about learning through construction play.
So I wrote down some ideas on index cards and left them for her to find.

You can use any kinds of challenges you want but mine were:

Can you build a castle?

Can you build a house?

Can you build an animal/creature/robot?

Can you build a tower? How high?

Can you build two the same height?

Can you build a town?

What else can you make?

Other ideas might include (depending on your materials) making two towers that match, building a bridge, or anything else you think will interest your child.

Playing the Challenge

The girl was really excited about all the stuff on the table and dove right into the challenges.

She particularly enjoyed making a tall tower and designing a castle, which stayed up over night and into the next day.

I had a good time playing with the stuff, too.

I saved some of the good stuff before putting the rest in the recycling, knowing that this is a game we can do again and again in different ways depending on what's in the house.

Do you ever play games or build with trash? I'd love to hear what you do!

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I'm so excited to be with you today as part of the 28 Days of Hands-on STEM Activities for Kids series from Left Brain Craft Brain. This past week bloggers have been looking at the theme STEM goes green, and it was a lot of fun to pull this project right out of our recycling bin.

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You will be thrilled to know that there are tons of you CAN do with recycled materials! Whether you call it eco-friendly, frugal, inexpensive, or cheap, it is possible that all kids can have an awesome STEM experience with very little out of pocket costs. Gather your resources, I mean your recycling bins, and let's get started!

RECYCLING ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS FOR KIDS!

RECYCLING SCIENCE PROJECTS

What kinds of recyclables are perfect for these recycling activities below? Almost anything! Plastic bottles, tin cans, cardboard tubes and boxes, newspapers, old technology like computers and old CDs, and any odds or ends that look cool.

There are also many items like styrofoam and packaging materials that can be saved from the trash bin and upcycled into cool recycling projects.

MORE STEM RESOURCES

I like to keep a bin of supplies on-hand such as tape, glue, paper clips, string, scissors, markers, paper, rubber bands, and anything else you think your kids can use to build or engineer their recycling projects.
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RECYCLING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Check out the 20 recycling activities below by clicking on the links. I would also like to add that you can use your trash and recycling items to build boats to float, cars to go, and planes to fly. You can also look around and see what you already have to build structures for a quick STEM idea.

Check out these 7 STEM activities you can do with a few simple household items. Fill a paper bag or two with recyclables for these fun STEM challenges.

Turn all your leftover cardboard tubes into something fun and useful with this marble run STEM activity.

This is a great Earth Day STEM activity to make use of your collection of recyclables. Make a simple machine for kids with this hand crank winch project.

Design and create a DIY kaleidoscope for kids using recyclable materials for a simple recycling activity.

A few recyclable materials and some imagination is all it takes to build a fun droid or robot with this cool recycling project.

Make your own super fun rocket ship box from a large cardboard box.

Do you have kids who love to take things apart, broken or not broken? Why not let them take apart a computer, with a bit of assistance. My son thought this was the coolest recycling activity ever!

MORE AWESOME RECYCLING IDEAS FOR KIDS

RECYCLED PLASTIC FLOWERS CRAFT Left Brian Craft Brain

SHRINKING PLASTIC CUP EXPERIMENT Left Brian Craft Brain

BUILDING WITH NEWSPAPERS Modern Parents Messy Kids

DIY RUBBERBAND RACE CAR Your Modern Dad

MAKE A BUBBLE SNAKE WITH A PLASTIC BOTTLE The Mum In The Mad House

RECYCLED SPINNING TOPS Artsy Momma

RECYCLED BALLOON POWERED CAR Hello Wonderful

BUILD A BRIDGE Inspiration Laboratories

I hope these recycling activities and projects are just what you need to fuel your kids' passions for all things STEM or STEAM. I bet you will stumble onto more great ideas along the way!

I even bet you will create some awesome challenges of your own. All of these recycled STEM activities are a great springboard for your own creativity!

FUN RECYCLING ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYONE!

Click on the link or on the image below for more easy engaging STEM activities for kids.
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Recycling Science Projects For Kids | Little Bins for Little Hands

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Simply performing static stretches prior to exercise doesn't help you one bit. In fact, it can hurt your athletic performance. So if you or your young athlete are still doing static stretching before your workout, practice or game--change it up.

What's the difference between static and dynamic stretching?

Static stretching involves holding a position for 30 seconds or more to elongate the muscle while a dynamic warm up involves stretching through a range of motion.

Your body needs to warm up by slowly increasing your heart rate and breathing rate. In doing so, you are lubricating your joints, which will give you better range of motion and better elasticity in tendons and ligaments.

These 10 simple exercises work as a dynamic warm up for kids of any age or sport. Do each exercise for 20 to 30 seconds. Repeat as necessary.

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Simply performing static stretches prior to exercise doesn't help you one bit. In fact, it can hurt your athletic performance. So if you or your young athlete are still doing static stretching before your workout, practice or game--change it up. What's the difference between static and dynamic stretching?

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