Homeschool STEM for Kids: Experiments You Can Do at Home
This ongoing class will teach important physical science topics through while performing fun and engaging STEM experiments including building a motor, a battery, an electroscope and a balloon-powered car using materials found at home.
Elene Feigenbaum
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4.9
Number of reviews:(129)
What's included
1 live meeting
30 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
US Grade 6 - 9
Each week, students will explore a different area of physics through easy, fun and engaging experiments. Through guided inquiry and observation students will gain an understanding of physics content using common household materials. A question, discrepant event or scenario will provided for students to learn to develop hypotheses, and make observations. Students will learn about various physics concept while they safely design and perform scientific experiments at home. Students do not need to have any prior knowledge of physics. Everything will be explained during the lesson. Each lesson is a stand-alone lesson and does not build on a previous lesson. Students can pick which lessons they wish to attend. This is a subscription-based, ongoing class. You can "stop subscription" whenever you want to stop attending class. Recordings of the class will be available upon request after each lesson and students who were enrolled for that week can view a class they missed or rewatch a class at their own leisure. For this reason, my policy is not to offer a refund if a student misses a class or was unprepared for the class at the time of the session, A copy of the supply list is provided under "Learner Supply List" and is attached to the Welcome Post in the Classroom. Topics will include: First law of Motion – Inertia Experiments Second Law of Motion Experiments Third Law of Motion Experiment: Make a Marshmallow Catapult Third Law of Motion Experiments: Balloon pinwheel and Moving an Object with a Projectile Make a Toilet Tube Car Using Newtons Third Law of Motion Centripetal Force Experiments Make a Homopolar Motor Make a Battery Make an Electroscope Bernoulli Effect Experiments All About Pressure Combustion Experiments Paperclip Pendulum Seeing and Hearing Waves STEM challenge: Building a bridge with paper and a paperclip Bouyancy: STEM challenge: Make an aluminum foil boat Momentum Center of mass Pressure Total internal reflection Convection Currents Bimetals Make a compass Terminal Velocity Make a hovercraft Rotocopter Rubberband-Powered toys (energy transformations) Fidget spinner gyroscope paper rocket Why flaps and folds matter on paper airplanes
Learning Goals
Students will learn physics concepts such as Newton's Laws, Bernoulli's Law, and Electricity. Students will perform experiments safely, learn to develop hypothesis and make observations.
Other Details
Supply List
Homeschool STEM Experiments: Weekly Experiments You Can Do at Home
Weekly Supply List
Week of Sept 1- First law of Motion – Inertia Experiments
10 coins of the same type
Paper
Cardboard
Golf ball or similar object
Toilet paper roll (empty)
Plastic cup
Week of Sept 8 - Second Law of Motion Experiments
Clothespin
Pieces of dry spaghetti
2 objects of different masses – like blocks
String
Clay
Toy car
Stopwatch or clock with second hand
Week of Sept. 15 - Third Law of Motion Experiments:
Pencil
Plastic spoon
Tongue depressers
Marshmallows or cotton balls or wads of tissue
2 rubber bands
Balloon
Straw
String
Toilet tube roll
Week of Sept. 22 – Third Law of Motion Experiments
Balloon
Pencil
Plastic cup
String or yarn
Tape
Straw that bends
4 marbles or 2 AA batteries to use as wheels
Scissors
Rubberband
Book
Week of Sept. 29 - NO CLASSES
Week of Oct. 6 - Make a Balloon Car
Tube or water bottle or cardboard
Empty toilet paper tube, disposable water bottle, or cardboard for body of car
Balloon
Cardboard circles or bottle caps for wheels
Scissors
Pencils or wooden dowels
Tape
Straw
Rubberband
Week of Oct. 13 – NO CLASS
Week of Oct. 20 – NO CLASS
Week of Oct 27: - Centripetal Force
Balloon
Penny
plastic plate or heavy cardboard
String
3 clear plastic cups
Tape
2 ping pong balls
Pencil
Week Nov. 3 : – Make a Homopolar Motor
AA battery
Copper wire - stiff but bendable
Several small cylindical neodymium magnets about the same diameter as the battery
Week of Nov. 10: – Making a battery
Salt
vinegar
5-6 pennies
5-6 zinc washers (most metal washers are anodized (zinc plated)
Paper
cup
Pencil
Scissors
2 lemons or 2 potatoes (or one plus a knife to cut into 2 pieces)
Alligator clips or wire
Small hobby LED or voltmeter
Week of Nov. 17 : – Make an electroscope
Empty soda can or paper plate with clear drinking glass or clear jar with metal lid with
hole punched in the cap.
Plastic cup
Tape
Aluminum foil – thinner is better
Scissors
Balloon
Large paper clip
Tape
Week of Nov. 24:– Bernoulli Effect –
2 empty soda cans
2 mugs that soda cans fit into – preferably the same size as each other
Paper
Scissors
2 Straws that bend prefereably
2 Balloon
String
Tea light and lighter or matches
Ping pong ball
Hair dryer
Duct tape
Cup with water
Funnel or top of water bottle with hole in cap
Week of Dec. 1: Pasta rocket – hybrid engine
Glass mason jar or baby food jar with lid
Nail to make a hole in metal lid
round pasta – ziti
match
hydrogen peroxide
yeast
Week of Dec. 8 – All About Pressure
Empty soda can
Box of dixie bathroom cups – only one will get ruined
Shallow bowl of ice water
balloon
Water bottle with cap
Scissors or nail to make a hole in the water bottle
Glass of water
Note card big enough to cover the opening of the glass
Week of Dec. 15 – Paperclip Pendulum
Many paperclips of the same size
A ziplock bag
Pennies for weights
String
Stopwatch
Week of Dec. 22 – Seeing and hearing waves
Template of a cylinder shape – will be provided
Scissors
Rubber bands of different lengths and thicknesses
Pencil
Printout of Black and White Stripes – will be attached
Shoebox or plastic cup
Week of Dec 29– STEM challenge: Building a bridge with paper and a paperclip
Piece of computer paper
Scissors
Two paperclips
Bag of pennies
Week of Jan 5: – Boats and Buoyancy
Aluminum Foil
Bowl or dishpan filled with of water
Lots of pennies for adding weight
Week of Jan 12 - NO CLASS
Week of Jan 19 – NO CLASS
Week of Jan 26– Momentum
Paper or cardboard
Scotch tape
3-4 Ping pong balls
3-4 Golf balls
Week of Feb 2- Center of Mass
Pencil
Stiff Wire
Corks or potato or clay
Forks
Bottle
Toothpick
Toy/object/clay to suspend from wire
Robot picture printed out on cardstock (will be attached in a classroom post) -
colored in if you want.
Two coins (pennies)
Tape
Empty soda can
Week of Feb 9: – Combustion
Hardboiled egg or water balloon
Glass bottle with opening a little smaller than the egg
Paper
Match or lighter
Glass
Shallow bowl of water
Tea light
Week of Feb. 16– Total Internal Reflection
Glass
Small ziplock bag that will fit inside the glass when held flat.
Paper
Permanent markers
Water
Penny or other coin
Week of Feb 23: – Convection Currents
2 clear bottles o the same size
Two different color of food coloring
Cold water to fill one bottle
Warm water to fill the other bottle
Note card or stiff cardboard – larger than openings of bottle
Paper
Scissors
String
Desk lamp or small candle
Week of March 2: – Making a Bimetallic Strip
Aluminum foil
Printer paper
Scissors
Glue
Candle
Lighter or matches
Optional: other material sheets (plastic, copper, etc.)
Week of March 9: – Make a Compass
Bowl
Water bottle cap
Water
Paper clip
Magnet
Week of March 16: – Paper Rocket Design
Two sheets of paper
Scissors
Pencil
Drinking straw
Ruler
Week of March 23: – How Fast Will it Fall? (Terminal Velocity)
2 sheets of paper (computer paper is fine)
1 coffee filter (or paper cupcake holder)
Stopwatch
Meter stick or tape measure
Calculator
Week March 30- Why Flaps and Folds Matter on Paper Airplanes
Sheets of paper
Ruler
Scissors
Something to measure distance
Week of April 6: – Make a Hovercraft
Pop-top lid from a water bottle or dishsoap
And old CD or DVD or small plastic disposable plate
Medium sized balloon
hot glue or duct tape
Large flat surface or kitchen counter
Week of April 13 – NO CLASS
Week of April 27: – Roto-Copter
Paper
Scissors
Timer
Penny
Paperclip
Week May 4 : – Rubber Band -Powered Toys (Energy Transformations)
Empty soda can, or empty cardboard can with plastic cover
Scissors or nail – to poke holes
Two Rubber bands
Duct tape
Two small paper clips
Two toothpicks
Spool of thread (empty is better)
4-5 washers
Water bottle (alternative to spool)
Straw (if using water bottle)
String
Week of May 11: – Fidget Spinner Gyroscope
String
Pencil (straight normal number 2 pencil, not a mechanical pencil)
Fidget spinner where you can expose the center hole
Tape
Scissors
Week of May 18: Simple Machines: Levers
Ruler
Pencil or pen
Weight of some sort like a ball of clay
Optional: Spring Scale
Week of May 25: Simple Machines: Pulleys
Yarn or String
Spools from ribbon or thread
Paper clips
Place to hang pulleys (cabinet or tape to table top)
Weight to lift
Option 2: Piece of thick foam board or cardboard and some straws or wooden dowe
Week of June 1: Simple Machines - Gears
Pictures of the gears printed on cardstock OR Corrugated Cardboard and cut out cardboard circles.
Scissors
Tape or glue
2 long pins or toothpicks
Foam or cardboard 1 file available upon enrollment
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined August, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Ohio Teaching Certificate in Secondary Education
2 Degrees
Master's Degree in Science from Case Western Reserve University
Bachelor's Degree in Science from Stern College for Women Yeshiva University
I have been a science teacher for over thirty years. I have a masters degree in chemistry and I love to teach children through hands-on inquiry-based experimentation. I have taught students of all ages a wide range of science content including physical science, forensic science earth science, engineering and chemistry. I look forward to teaching your child!Reviews
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